best practice to move a package to team maintainership

2015-03-11 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
Hi everyone, I'd like your opinion regarding the following matter. There is a package I need an update for (h5py), which is now particularly outdated. It is currently being maintained by a solo Debian maintainer, who I contacted regarding this but has yet to reply. So I worked on my own, fixed the

Re: best practice to move a package to team maintainership

2015-03-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ghislain, On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:34:33AM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like your opinion regarding the following matter. There is a package I > need an update for (h5py), which is now particularly outdated. It is > currently being maintained by a solo Debian mainta

Re: best practice to move a package to team maintainership

2015-03-11 Thread Anton Gladky
Hi Ghis, I do completely support your intention to push packages under a team maintenance. Several times I contacted maintainer directly and proposed him to move the package under the team. Usually people are agreed to do it. You just have to say to maintainer, that he will be able to work on a p

Re: Tried to create libcolt-free-java.git (Was: Please help freeing libcolt-java)

2015-03-11 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 10/03/2015 18:23, Andreas Tille a écrit : > So I obviously did not understand the description of your experiment. As I said, I removed the files from src/hep/aida/bin and made the necessary changes to ensure the package still compiles. I didn't try to replace the other files under src/hep/aida

Re: [MoM] dwv

2015-03-11 Thread Yves
Hi list, Getting there... * ssh is all set, * I created the repository ( http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/dwv-orthanc-plugin.git) using the setup-repository script, * I had troubles with uscan and the watch file, uscan stops, complaining about the missing changelog file so I downloaded th