-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02-05-2005 11:55, Beauxir5 wrote: > hi! > > I send you an email because you are maintaining icecast-server or icecast2. > > I have made a package for the P2P streaming server peercast - > www.peercast.org - , using mainly icecast-server package as backbone. > > Then I have asked for a sponsor at debian mentors, but could not get any, so > I'm asking you as I hope this package can interest you. > > All the stuff is located at: > http://www.cti.ecp.fr/~beauxir5/debian > an can be included as a repository: > deb http://www.cti.ecp.fr/~beauxir5/debian binary/ > deb-src http://www.cti.ecp.fr/~beauxir5/debian source/ > > Any remark, comment would be welcome.
I do not want to sponsor your package, but I am willing to temporarily adopt the package until you become an official Debian maintainer. I consider "package sponsoring" to be broken - a bad hack that should never have been invented. You are most welcome to help out maintaining the package while waiting in the new-maintainer queue: file good bugreports with your suggested improvements to the package. If you want to provide proof of your packaging skills then do local packaging and attach the .diff.gz file from your local package to the bugreport you file requesting improvements - and point your DAM to those fine bugreports of yours indicating perfection in the skill of packaging. I am aware that adopting your package instead of sponsoring it for you will not get you "points" for getting into Debian. I relly want more people into Debian, but I believe it to be stupid that "knowing someone already inside of Debian (or persuade someone unknown) to sponsor you gets you raises your chances of getting in" is fundamentally wrong. I believe packages are best maintained by those the package maintainance scripts was build for, and has access to all communication about the Debian project, including the secret (and too active IMHO) mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] . See http://bugs.debian.org/112118 for a similar discussion. Kind reagards, - Jonas P.S. I cc'ed this email to the relevant bugreport as well, for the record (literally). - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nÃr: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCdhSbn7DbMsAkQLgRAl0lAJsElHPYiRNyCEA+Z7IuPzxXaFCJpgCfaE2H ysKMXBlgBDenE6kO2Mqp6cI= =dRk3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
