On 20 May 2010 20:54, Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Pedro, > (dropping debian-devel, not the right place to ask it, and adding the > orphaning bug in CC) > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 22:45, Pedro Ribeiro <ped...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to adopt package libnjb5, which is up for adoption due to >> its maintainer being MIA. > > that's nice, thanks! > >> However, I'm not a DD or a DM. I've been contributing work to Debian >> for a few months now as a member of the testing security team, but my >> work is unimportant - I simply sort CVE's and file bug reports for >> affected packages - and probably nobody will vouch for me. > > Well, don't diminish your activities at Debian: every work is > important (even the smallest/ungrateful ones) so thanks for what you > do! > >> Is there any chance a developer could "adopt" me and sign my packages? > > Mh, it's doesn't exactly work like this: at the beginning, you start > taking maintenance of package, and when you need someone to upload the > package you write to debian-ment...@lists.debian.org asking for > sponsorship. > >> This is not a critical package, but some people still rely on it for >> using their old Nomad devices (like me). There is some bugfixing to >> due (patches are already in the bugzilla) and there is a new upstream >> version. > > Are you comfortable with shared libraries management? sonames bump, > rpath, and so on, triggers something or you don't know what they are? > shlibs are not an easy packages to starts with. > > This doesn't mean to discourage you (we'd be happy to have a caring > maintainer for each package), but only to warn you that you'll have to > learn the debian packaging method + who to handle shlibs, and that > means a lot, and could pose the bar too high. > > Regards, > -- > Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) > My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ > Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi >
Thanks for the answer. Those names do not ring a bell. But if nobody adopts it, its not going into squeeze right? I can start by adopting a few other packages I use, but I can also learn quite fast. Regards, Pedro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktilc5egapdrockckmaqschpbjqwezmjstzvzg...@mail.gmail.com
