Bug#666141: RFS: openconnect/3.15-1

2012-03-28 Thread Mike Miller
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "openconnect" * Package name: openconnect Version : 3.15-1 Upstream Author : David Woodhouse * URL : http://www.infradead.org/openconnect/ * License :

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Pocock writes: > I'm just trying to establish the pattern I should be following > a) for those projects where I have no role, no commit rights, etc, I > presume that I should just use git-buildpackage, create a distinct > repository to track debian/ stuff, and follow the normal structure

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:29:22PM +0200, Michael Wild a écrit : >> The only unpleasant side-effect I can think of is that git-dch will >> probably be a bit noisy. > Same for the commit emails. This is one of the reasons I still import > tarballs from upstream projects

Bug#666081: RFS: ndpmon/1.4.0-1 [ITP] - Third Attempt

2012-03-28 Thread John R. Baskwill
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ndpmon" * Package name: ndpmon Version : 1.4.0-1 Upstream Author : frederic.b...@loria.fr * URL : http://ndpmon.sourceforge.net/index.html * License

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:29:22PM +0200, Michael Wild a écrit : > > The only unpleasant side-effect I can think of is that git-dch will > probably be a bit noisy. Same for the commit emails. This is one of the reasons I still import tarballs from upstream projects that are maintained with Git:

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 28/03/2012 13:29, Michael Wild wrote: On 03/28/2012 01:56 PM, Paul Wise wrote: [...] All the above is completely up to you as maintainer of the Debian packaging. The only unpleasant side-effect I can think of is that git-dch will probably be a bit noisy. Haven't tried such a scheme mysel

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Michael Wild
On 03/28/2012 01:56 PM, Paul Wise wrote: [...] > > All the above is completely up to you as maintainer of the Debian packaging. > The only unpleasant side-effect I can think of is that git-dch will probably be a bit noisy. Haven't tried such a scheme myself, though, since my upstream doesn't ha

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
a) for those projects where I have no role, no commit rights, etc, I presume that I should just use git-buildpackage, create a distinct repository to track debian/ stuff, and follow the normal structure (master and upstream branches) The use of a VCS is completely optional for Debian packaging

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Paul Wise
In general, we like it if upstreams follow our guide: http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I am involved in several projects where I am either the founder of the > project (e.g. dynalogin) or a contributor with full access to the repository

Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
I am involved in several projects where I am either the founder of the project (e.g. dynalogin) or a contributor with full access to the repository (e.g. Ganglia, reSIProcate, flactag) There are also a couple of projects where I don't have any role, but I would like to package the code for