2011/8/31 Etienne Millon <[email protected]>
> * Jeremy Allard <[email protected]> [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 [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > Ok, thanks very much for the answer, I should have wait more time before doing all the steps. Thanks for the other advice, I will work with the package that he already made next time. And just for the curiosity, what you mean by left dh_make template? If the package doesn't need for exemple a post-install script, should-I delete it or (that's what I tought) I should keep it there but with nothing important in? I read all the maintainer guide, it's just that I want to do the best package. :-) And by the way, I'm used to use slackbuilds to make packages for Slackware, dh_make and dpkg-buildpackage are pretty awesome compare to those. :)
