Hi Baron, sorry for the delay... Baron Schwartz wrote: > Hi Dario,
[snip] >> >> Can I help somehow in the maintainance of the Debian offical version of >> maatkit? > > That would really be welcome. The truth is that I don't really > understand any distribution's mechanism for packaging. For example, > why does it look for tar.gz files instead of looking for the deb > files? The watch file looks for the source code version and discard your external .deb package because it's not under a Debian repository (It's just an isolated .deb file somewhere). No Debian user will be able to install|update|<or interact in any way> with that package, via apt-get|aptiude|<any_other_package_management_tool> because it's not under a Debian repository. > I'm grateful to anyone who knows these things. I'll grant > commit access etc at the drop of a hat. Ok, I'll contact you about this subject soon, thanks. Regards (and Happy New Year!) -- Dario Minnucci (midget) <[email protected]> Phone: +34 902021030 | Fax: +34 902024417 | Support: +34 807450000 Key fingerprint = 62FF F60F CE79 9CE4 EBA8 523F FC84 1B2D 82C8 B711
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