William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote my own app and it is debianized already, the way > mplayer already is. But I mistakenly made it a "native" Debian > package when it is really a tarball and/or a debian package. > > There will *never* be a "diff" between "debian" and "upstream" > (I wrote it.)
This is only true when it is a package specifically made _for_ Debian, like debconf or debian-policy. If it is just some application that you wrote and use on Debian, but others might use it on Fedora or whatever, then it will not always be true. Imagine you did a mistake in packaging. With a Debian native package, you would have to release a new version just to fix that Debian bug, and your Fedora or BSD users would be puzzled what that new version number means. But from your subject I assume you already want that. Well, usually you just have to rename your tarball to <name>_<version>.orig.tar.gz, and be done. > And as a related question, I don't wish to become a Debian Developer, > but this app is at least as good as some of the things in the archive. > I suppose I need a "sponsor." This is a simple GTK app. > What is the protocol for asking, and would anybody be willing to upload > it for me (once we take a good close look at it.) Just drop a mail indicating a download site for the source package - drop it here, or drop it anywhere you expect interested Debian Developers to read it. Ah, and yes: Of course you should read http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html Which would have answered this question, too. > This app has already been on Freshmeat/Sourceforge for a year: > http://freshmeat.net/projects/tupim > (new release 1.5 will be on freshmeat tomorrow) > http://projects.sf.net/pim-tb > (1.5 version already up there) Your brother Tom has already submitted a WNPP bug for this: http://bugs.debian.org/239523 Regards, Frank -- Frank K�ster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z�rich Debian Developer
