Hi,
>please both of you read http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ > >AFAIK most of the packages in backports are not maintainer by their >original maintainers, and upload to bpo are not considered NMU of any >kind (don't get driven off by lintian!). > >Kinda of summarized in the "Best Practice" section there a general >workflow, which several people follows and I quite like: > >contact the maintainers: a bug is nice, even if you must be aware > that the BTS knows nothing about backports. either the maintainers > say they will do the upload & maintenance of the package themselves, > or say "please go ahead", or they don't reply. I think it's polite > to poke after ~1 week or so with "I will go ahead if i don't receive > a reply" poke in the last case. >upload the package in the last 2 cases above. > >For sure I won't sponsor a bpo upload if the maintainer has not been >informed about your willingness, even if this is not stricly required by >any policy. the problem is that I have little kde knowledge, and I know they transition a lot depending on qt stuff. Since the maintainers are many, and active, I don't see any particular reason to not ping them, specially to avoid making bad uploads :) (I'm sure somewhere there should even be some backport policy, specific to kde tools) cheers, G.
