-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Emilien,
On 09.12.2011 16:22, Emilien Klein wrote: > If I understand it correctly none of the changes I've made are > acceptable for an NMU. That's fine by me, as l'm just trying to get a > newer version that is free of the bug due to which I have to duplicate > code. If fixing part of the Lintian warnings are not fit for a NMU, > I'll gladly not do it ;) for the sake of completeness it shall be noted, those changes _are_ acceptable, if you actually joining a packaging group with the original maintainer. You two may agree on specific best-practices (e.g. packaging format, style and so on), but given he does not oppose anything you did (see, some people have a strong opinion on things like DEP-5 and such - just as an example) with him such changes would be fine. The bottom line is: As a maintainer such changes are fine, in a minimal-invasive NMU not. > I'm not fundamentally against taking over maintenance of the package, > but I'm still very new to Debian packaging (not a DM or DD). Would > that be a problem? It is perfectly fine to (co-) maintain packages in Debian without any further permissions or roles. Most if not all of us started that way. Note, you can't upload packages to Debian in such cases - you need a sponsor, being it a team member or a person you find on this mailing list. Albeit you have some limitations you have all rights, permissions and obligations as every other maintainer has. In particular your name is preserved, your work is honored, and, well, you are blamed for your mistakes and receive bug reports. > Also, how is the "taking over maintenance" part done in a diplomatic > way with regards to the current maintainer? In your case the best thing would probably be to ask the maintainer whether he is interested to form a packaging team with you. As soon as he agrees, that's about it. Maybe he asks you to join a packaging team on Alioth (e.g. collab-maint, the Python team) and adds you to the Uploaders in debian/control sooner or later. Everything else, including fixing bugs, sharing workload and so on depends on your mutual agreement. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJO4izNAAoJEMcrUe6dgPNtlLAP/1Fs+lNlbomdzu6lWmojmcTd NZ9opq6+z20eyHpjvfGmxd6ERJNtYmMMziaN6Dx2+bH6glim2pWPpHEoBRtBIPT8 kpYtPA3LarRAe+oZPLMdPWjqlM77chXx7UGmhnxDFUNuYjHhf++O6CnD9CHW9qUf cgVpP15q+wNeYCNtgSI9ELze/pfKwU4xUjymLFs+G3W9dRY3j82YKyt9GdPAqgW4 h+Z8iibQwH+8lR5qFH4rxxWFDatSdCR7YLQTJ28C/wag1N/z8jw0s+/tmg8ujb0c v2ALFM1VGcIWUkSPkbSE52hJx8/VzmcBIfnELIuyzKceUCH8nFc159yvgTpBUW3v MY9XhlRcDgT8JGqJjwegpAbhesfRs4xzyXpfxJH+VPdbPm7Y19/lapjk4iCLeVhl jRzw0k1Zwr3MWTtpwK/LjysNhJT2pG4aq4agpAD0afpCkYxJsydPEY+PHR8szPZw IfKYp+59c3DUmy2Zy3UTtUoW+WUwtlVEwKqcxwW0uHlEx8fe8i0KdFwt48FfkWAw cwf/MxSmYHU3K9Ra/CmbBEbvKjlnOVtqqoZt9gId3V5ZBKMx+XtPFlX3w0T966i6 eaOCo8pKJ9OSodWN2nHu8E/t8XOHuAFGV7TgOBtRcPZXDfkMTiMeVu+I8sAHI+1b SkOTNMgp6zQnrD2lSoPU =aLrv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
