On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Yavor Doganov wrote:
I have a personal rule not to attempt to maintain packages I don't use, because practice shows me that a Debian maintainer is far more than a packaging bot. You have to know what the software does or is supposed to do from a user perspective, and that implies using the package on a regular basis.
This is perfectly all right. But nobody says you should finally *upload* the package. If you just commit changes to the packaging which are based on your GNUstep knowledge and the result is evaluated by people who are actually using it, I'd think commiting to SVN directly is perfectly fine.
I'm breaking this rule slightly as I don't use your GNUstep packages (although I have them installed on all my machines and play with them from time to time), but I'd like to keep this as an exception.
In principle I have the same rule - but it is not always possible to full extend. I stick to those programs I have close contact to the end users
I have subscribed to debian-med-packaging and debian-med-commit and will keep an eye on things I can help with. I'm already subscribed to the PTS of all GNUstep packages under your control. But don't rely on me for the rest of the (complicated and specialized) stuff you maintain, please :-)
For sure. ;-)
I also noticed that you have a policy [1] which appears to be completely in line with the advices you gave me. I'll read it and try to stick to it -- if I fail, beat me.
There was not a single reason for beeting so far. ;-)
Thanks for the warm welcome!
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