On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 00:49, Serafeim Zanikolas<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Those interested in packaging, but not certain about making a long-term > commitment might be interested in a practical primer for QA uploads: > > http://wiki.debian.org/QAUploadsPrimer > > (A QA upload is a one-off maintenance act of an orphaned package (as opposed > to > an upload that declares one's adoption of the package))
1. QA uploads are nothing different from a normal upload except for the Maintainer field; does it worth a full wiki page? A paragraph in some other QA page would be enough 2. "read or skim through the table of contents of the Debian new maintainer's guide (so that you know where to lookup things you might need)" ??? policy and devref are just a waste of time? this is a wrong suggestion (without mentioning the other 2 docs). 3. "an orphaned package has its Maintainer set to Debian QA Group <[email protected]>" what for those that are orphaned but never received a QA upload? qa.debian.org/orphaned.html to have such list 4. "it's NOT okay to edit any upstream file; for that, you'll have to use a patch management system (such as quilt [2])" too strong requirement IMO. if an orphaned package already does direct upstream code changes, might be ok to keep doing them in the qa upload. 5. "the first entry in debian changelog should be QA upload" dch does the right thing without specify anythinh (just update maintainer field first to QA if it's not yet) 6. "if the package is team-maintained (see the Maintainer field in debian/control, you might have to commit your changes to the team's repository; but this shouldn't be the case because we said that you'd work on an orphaned package )" so why mention it?? this is wrong. It's orphaned, no need to commit anythin to the ex-team. 7. "repeat steps 3-4" there are no numbers in your doc. 8. "check that your newly-built .deb installs, uninstalls, and re-installs without problems (you did choose a non-critical package, so this should be okay even if your package is horribly broken)" what?? 9. "if you have modified the package's dependencies, use pbuilder to confirm that the package builds successfully" USE PBUILDER IN ANY CASE BEFORE UPLOAD TO MENTORS!!! In definitive, this is a complete waste of time: if you know how to package, this page is useless, if you don't, this page drive to the wrong direction. Please either: 1. fix it 2. merge with an already existing QA page (a small paragraph in hte main wiki QA page would be enough) 3. remove it. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
