On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 02:42:09PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:49:20PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I've looked at mod_caml and cocanwiki recently because I'm interested in > > them. Still I've no time to be the maintainer of the package, _but_ I > > will be happy to review and sponsor your packages.
Thanks Stefano for following up on this. > > This means that _you_ will be the package maintainer, you would take > > care of bug reports and so on. I (or someone else) would simply perform > > the uploads for you. > > > > Before spending time on your packages, and since we have discussed this > > issue many time in the past, I would like you to give me some answers > > (already posed in the past for your packages IIRC, but never answered): > > 1) is ok for you to be the maintainer of those packages? > > Yes. Cool. > > 2) is ok for you to work on the SVN repository of our alioth project? > > It would ease our work. If the answer is "yes" could you please > > commit the latest version of your package on the repository instead > > of simply making the available on the web? > > Yes (see below). Cool bis. > > 3) are you interested in being an official debian developer or not? > > Note that you can be the maintainer of your packages even if you > > answer "no" > > Not much free time so I think the answer is no. > > OK, so I've checked out pkg-ocaml-maint from SVN, and in there I see a > packages/mod-caml directory. I thought I'd start small by trying This was the first try i did, and as thus is a rather older version of your package, maybe the first or second we spoke about. > to build the package already in that directory. I'm using: > > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot Try the opkg-buildpackage tool in tools in the SVN repo. You use it by plainly calling it in the trunk dir, containing the debian dir and the orig tarball. > (This is ongoing, because it turns out I first have to upgrade my dev > machine to 3.08 from Debian/testing, which I'm doing now). Hehe. Debian/testing has 3.08 right now anyway. IF you really wanted, you could create an actual sarge chroot or something. > Is this the right way to go? I think so. > Is there any documentation I ought to be reading? No idea about this one. The ocaml poackging policy, i think, and maybe the subversion help/tutorial/documentation. Also, there may be some stuff elsewhere, or in older mails in the mail archive. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
