Hello George On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:55 AM, George Danchev <[email protected]> wrote: > William Vera writes: >> Hello >> >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:59 PM, George Danchev <[email protected]> wrote: >> > William Vera writes: >> >> Dear mentors, >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8-12 >> >> of my package "scrot". >> >> >> >> It builds these binary packages: >> >> scrot - command line screen capture utility >> >> >> >> The package appears to be lintian clean. >> >> >> >> The upload would fix these bugs: 586769 >> >> >> >> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: >> >> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scrot >> >> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable >> >> main contrib non-free >> >> - dget >> >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scrot/scrot_0.8-12.dsc >> > >> > Looks good. The patch provided by #586769 makes sense and is innocent >> > enough. >> > >> > 1) Please, communicate all of these debian/patches upstream in whatever >> > manner (the general aim, in the long run, is to share and merge with >> > upstream, and not to diverge "developing" in debian/patches), and if any >> > of them would not be accepted upstream for whatever reason it would make >> > sense reflect that in their headers. >> >> thanks for the advice, just sent an email to the upstream informing >> about patches in the package and asking for their comments and >> suggestions. >> I will keep you informed of response. :) > > Good. > >> > 2) 'DM-Upload-Allowed: yes' is set by whoever sponsor, though in your >> > case it would make sense, but don't be that helpful ;-) >> >> Why not? all my packages with DM Upload Allowed are in better shape >> that others :P >> I think it's helpful for small issues and changes (and why not, maybe >> urgent issues) > > I'm not claiming that you won't get DMUA=y and I know how useful it is ;-) > > However, as cited at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer > > <cite> > The DM-Upload-Allowed: yes control field should be set by the sponsor (or by > the sponsoree after a request from the sponsor), not silently added by the > sponsoree without coordination with the usual sponsor. The field should only > added to a source package after the sponsor is satisfied with the sponsoree's > ability to handle that specific package, usually this happens after several > good-quality uploads. > </cite> >
Ups, sorry I forgot that > So far, there is only one upload done by me and one by another DD and it seems > you are capable to maintain that package yourself alone, thus let us track > your record for few more successful uploads, then we will eventually ask you > to set DMUA=y or set that ourselves as well. It is not that a big deal, but > the whole thing is running on procedures, so in general we are better > following them as well, unless we have some very good reasons to dispute on > changing them. > I understand > To summarize: don't get chocked if DMUA=y gets removed by a sponsor, and re- > added back after few more uploads. Also, don't get amazed if your sponsors > screen how you are following the procedures ;-) Ok :) > > -- > pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> > Thanks Grettings! -- William Vera <[email protected]> PGP Key: 1024D/F5CC22A4 Fingerprint: 3E73 FA1F 5C57 6005 0439 4D75 1FD2 BF96 F5CC 22A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
