Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-08-19, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a person that was a new library without any application using it, whereas a interesting kde application might easier catch my

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:11:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a person that was a new library without any application using it, whereas a interesting kde application might easier catch

Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-18 Thread Ben Finney
Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a person that was a new library without any application using it, whereas a interesting kde application might easier catch my eye. That's interesting, thank you for that perspective.

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:11:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a person that was a new library without any application using it, whereas a interesting kde application might easier

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Wise
2009/8/19 Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net: I've had to do this with Perl modules once - I wanted to package a particular module, but it had a chain of dependencies that were not packaged yet.  What I did was file a series of ITP bugs, stating my intentions clearly - first for the target