Dear Mentors, I'm going to ITP a package not in debian but already in other Debian based distro for years. From technical side, I think it's kinda like ITA, because all Debian packaging related stuff is already there.
Since I didn't find any document describing how to do with this kind of case, I want to confirm here before starting. Here's some questions I have: - I usually use git/gbp to packaging. Do I need to keep history of original debian related stuff (debian/ directory)? - Do I need to ask upstream (Debian based distro) packaging maintainer? or it's better to encourage them to ITP? (upstream package already existed for years, so I think they might be not interested in it) And here's the package I'm going to ITP: code upstream: https://github.com/JesusFreke/smali pkg upstream: http://git.kali.org/gitweb/?p=packages/smali.git or git://git.kali.org/packages/smali.git License: BSD-3-clause / Apache-2.0 Thank you and look forward to your reply! Cheers, Roger
