On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:03:59AM +0530, Medhamsh wrote: > Dear Wouter, > > On Thu, February 9, 2012 12:09 pm, Medhamsh wrote: > >> Having said that, if you're interested in maintaining aspic, I > >> recommend that you first familiarize yourself with its source. I'll > >> happily sponsor your uploads, if you need me to. > > > > I would do that right away. Will look at its source and write you > > back more about it. > > I have downloaded the source as well as debian package source. Installed > the software from source (not from package). Dint explore it in and out > but just got an idea. After that observed the rules file and found it > to be simple with some overrides. Though I have never done a dh7 style > rules, this dint seem to be much difficult.
It shouldn't be (the point of dh7 is, in fact, to make things easier). > For some reason the four packages I uploaded to mentors use the long > rules file format. I just wanted myself to familiarize with all the > dh_* options and the workflow. That makes perfect sense. > But I can adopt to dh7 style rules. And coming to the copyright file, > it is not in the dep5 machine readable format. May be making this into > a dep5 would be wise. I'm not very fond of the dep5 thing; but if you're willing to do the work... well, you'd be the maintainer... > Also, the control file doesn't give any Vcs info > of the package. May be having a Vcs repo would also be a convenient way > for both of us initially and then for anyone who would maintain the pacakge. Oh, there is, I just forgot the header. it's on alioth, in ~wouter/aspic.git, if I'm not mistaken. Maybe I should push a copy to collab-maint; it just didn't feel very useful for such a small package, while I was the only maintainer. > Looking for more inputs from you and also requesting a review and sponsor > of my packages mentioned in my previous mail. I haven't forgotten; I just haven't had the time for that yet. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a -- 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/20120210071834.gq3...@grep.be
