On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 04:01 -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: > As some of you may have guessed from some of my confused emails the last few > days > I am the author of peless, and I have been trying to get peless into debian. > I am not an experienced debian person. > > I have been trying to get all my control, rules, changelog, ect, files into > shape > so the peless will package, so then I can hand it off to an experienced debian > packager who I hope to talk into putting peless into debian. > > To this end, I have been using ubuntu 7.04 as a developement environment. > Is that wrong?
You can use Ubuntu, build the package with pbuilder configured to use Debian Sid, and test the package in a Debian Testing chroot. > If so, it could be a problem for me, because I have dialup > and it would take a long time to download a distribution dvd. What I said above requires some bandwidth. > I had > this ubuntu CD, (they seem to be everywhere), so I just started to use > it. Everyone tells me that ubuntu is a form of debian. Ubuntu is based on Debian. > > Anyway, today I thought I had all my files OK, and I could build a package, > so I thought to try to submit a "RFP". Do you only want the "peless" software packaged included Debian? Or do you want to become the official Debian package maintainer? > > I did a "bugreport --email [EMAIL PROTECTED] wnpp" > but it never asked me to "Choose the request type:" like it > says in this web page: > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ > finnaly when it began saying it was going to send the report off > to an ubuntu mailing list, I aborted it. > > Is there a way to file a RFP from ubuntu? What am I doing wrong? Send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject "RFP: peless -- short package description" and with this in the body: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Followed by some information about the software. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
