Hi Thomas, On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 11:10 +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > Hi all, > > |--==> Bart Martens writes: > > BM> On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 23:27 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote: > >>I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wavbreaker". > >>* Package name : wavbreaker > >>Version : 0.7.9-1 > >>The ITP for the original wavbreaker is here: > >>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=282456 > > BM> Have you agreed with the owner of the ITP to take over the ITP? > > Thanks for having contacted me, I opened that ITP a long time ago, and > I add the package ready, but never uploaded it as it was considered a > duplicate of wavsplit. Anyway I still think that wavbreaker is a > different beast, as it has a GUI. > > If you have started working on wavbreaker again please go on,
So the owner of the ITP agrees that you take over the ITP. > if you > need a sponsor for the uplaod I would be glad to do that. So you could ask Free Ekanayaka to sponsor your package. > It would > also suggest the package to be included in Debian Multimedia project, > as it is listed as one of the packages to work on: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging > > Practically this means setting the Maintainer to > > Debian Multimedia Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > and including the actual maintainers in Uploaders. We are also using > SVN to track the package sources and be able to collaborate working on > them (exspecially for mentored packages): > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/demudi/ > > This would help the package to gain more visibility and attention, all > upload notices and bug reports are forwarded to the debian-multimedia > mailing list, and people can see what's going on (pretty much as with > debian-boot or debian-kernel). These seem valid but optional suggestions, so feel free to choose. > > >> > >>This is a patched version of the original 0.7 release by Timothy D. > Robinson > > BM> http://huli.org/wavbreaker/ > BM> http://thpinfo.com/2006/wavbreaker/ > > BM> Have you agreed with Timothy to take over upstream development? > > >>that fixes usability issues, adds a .desktop file, manpages and i18n > support. > > BM> Are these changes large enough to fork? > > BM> Maybe Timothy's version 0.7 can be packaged in Debian as 0.7-1, with > BM> your improvements added in the .diff.gz file. Maybe Timothy is > BM> interested in copying some improvements into his work. > > I agree that would be probably a good idea. Are you willing to do this Thomas? > If you can please keep > also the patch file(s) in debian/patches, instead of merging them in > the diff.gz. This helps merging them back if new versions of the > original wavbreaker get released (it's probably unlikely, but you > never know). These are valid but optional suggestions, so feel free to choose. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
