On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:38:53 +0100 Laurent Guignard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It has to build on sparc, you are required to ensure that it does by > > fixing any FTBFS bugs that appear and those will provide a lot of > > the information you need to fix the bug. In that case, your sponsor > > can help you test the package on the actual hardware. > > > > On the upstream README file, Irwin said that : > "This version runs on Solaris 9 on SPARC, compiled with gcc." > So for me, dhcp-probe could be built on this platform. > I haven't any possibility to test the package on this type of > architecture and i haven't any assigned sponsor too. Your eventual sponsor has all the access necessary to build and test the package - you don't need to worry about that, you just fix the bugs that result (with the help of your sponsor). Your task is merely to ensure that the package will build on all architectures supported by Debian with or without any confirmation or statements from upstream. Your package must build on all architectures where the dependencies can be met - you do not have that choice. It must be built and you must fix the bugs that may appear (feeding the results back upstream) with the help of your sponsor. There is no getting out of it - dhcp-probe must build on all architectures where the dependencies can be met. (It is just as unacceptable to "create" dependencies that would artificially restrict the package to particular architectures. That is a misuse of Policy.) If you do not do this, the package might never be sponsored and may still be rejected by ftp-master. If you want this package in Debian, *you* are responsible for fixing bugs that arise on all architectures supported by Debian, whether or not upstream have any support for those architectures. Debian will provide all the tools and resources necessary for your sponsor to help you with this task but it is still your task and you cannot avoid it. > If anyone want to sponsor me but i am not sure to want to follow all > steps of the Debian New Maintainer process. In that case, I will not sponsor you. http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/#join > I am not sure to have > enough time to assume this task. But i am sure to have enough time to > contribute with one or two packages. May be after i seen the amount of > time needed i could follow the Debian New Maintainer process... > > But i always need a sponsor for dhcp-probe package ;) Other sponsors have different requirements but my requirements include that maintainers must be intending to join Debian via the New Maintainer process. For me, sponsoring is a means to an end - getting more people into Debian. (I don't care about whether we get more packages out of it, in fact I think Debian has quite enough packages already - hence I look more for RFS relating to existing packages.) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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