On 01/15/2011 03:54 AM, gregor herrmann wrote: > I don't agree here; I've seen and been involved in quite a few > maintainer handovers that worked perfectly without involving the BTS. > > Of course if the new maintainer needs a sponsor, the sponsor will > want to see some proof of the old maintainer's admission. Which is what I am asking here!!! Jonathan talked about a private email. I wont sponsor an upload that would take-over the package just based on that. > Just out of curiosity: >> I am very familiar with Git, it's just that normally, we use upstream-sid / >> debian-sid, >> > I'm rather unfamiliar with git but sometimes I stumble over packages > maintained in git anway; and I haven't seen upstream-sid and > debian-sid branches yet. Who/where (team, tool, ...) is this schema > used? >
I first tried to do my packaging trying to integrate with the work of the pkg-php team. I maintain lots of php-* (PEAR packages), and that is what Raphael Geissert and others advised me to do. Given the way I was replied to (rather con-descendent) I thought I was a silly guy not to know that fact, and I thought it was a general habits inside Debian. According to what I have just read here, there's no real rules, and (like often in Debian), the reality is just a big mess. Anyway, using a "pristine-tar" branch and a "debian" branch seems not enough to me, whatever naming scheme we choose, because we need to track changes for all flavor of Debian. Using "stable" or "old-stable" doesn't seem really a good naming scheme, because when a new version of Debian is released, the meaning changes. So using lenny, squeeze, sid, rather than old-stable, stable, testing, unstable, seems more accurate to me. Which leads again to use: - upstream-sid / debian-sid - upstream-squeeze / debian-squeeze - upstream-lenny / debian-lenny as branch names, which avoids any kind of possible confusion (and doesn't forces you to act upon a new Debian release). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d31b1b9.1070...@debian.org
