On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 12:15:01AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > Hi, > > I guess I will have to take a week's vacation to read the svn > documentation. Since I don't have that time now I just created > and uploaded a new version of the ocaml-tools package that uses > our new cooperative maintenance scheme: > > Maintainer: Debian OCaml Maintainers <[email protected]> > Uploaders: Ralf Treinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sven Luther > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jerome Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Remi Vanicat > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The Policy Manual (section 2.3.2) says that the maintainer must be > a real person or a mailing list, so this is OK. Besides I > checked with the the tetex-base package and they use exactely the > same scheme for the maintainer and uploaders field. > > You might have noticed that I was so free to put my name first in the > uploaders list. There is a reason behind this (besides my megalomania > :-) Since the Maintainer is set to the mailing list I suggest as a > convention that the "principal maintainer" of a package is listed > first in the maintainer field. That is, by default it is him who > should care for the package. If anyone else wants to work on the > package then he should send a message to our mailing list in order > to avoid double work. > > > I have the intention of providing ocamake as part of debian. Strange > > wording you would say, but the problem is that ocamake is right now only > > a simple .ml file and a .html doc. It would be kind of ridiculous to > > ship a package with just it in it, but to what other package could it be > > added. > > I had the intention to add ocamake to the ocaml-tools package > before uploading a new version, but then I realised that would > have to write a manpage for ocamake, and I decided to leave > this to Sven :-) So, Sven, if you wish to add ocamake to ocaml-tools > please go ahead.
Ok, i will do it this weekend. Friendly, Sven Luther
