* Jeremy Allard <elvis4...@gmail.com> [110831 07:32]: > PS: I'm not really sure if it is te correct way to this. Please, correct me > if i'm wrong. I know that dwm is already present in main, but its oudated > and I have no news from the maintainer that i contacted by email a week ago. > > I would be thankfull if you could give me any advice on my package so i can > make it better. > Kind regards,
Hello, Dwm is indeed part of the archive. Contacting the maintainer was a good idea (a wishlist bug could have been enough, too), but one week is a very short amount of time. What you are trying to do (orphaning the package #639657) could be considered "an aggressive takeover" :-) Another thing is that your source package does reuse the current one at all (lintian complains about left dh_make templates). To hack on packages, it's a better idea to start from the existing (that you can obtain with apt-get source) and maybe to use a VCS helper such as git-buildpackage ; that's what the maintainer is doing and you can see his work on http://git.webconverger.org/?p=dwm . If you want to upgrade dwm, the best thing to do is probably to wait a little more for an answer from the maintainer. In the meantime, you can prepare a new version on top of his work, and submit that to him. If you don't have more news, then you can consider looking for a sponsor for a NMU. -- Etienne Millon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110831055826.ga3...@john.ssi.corp
