I am also confused about the distinction you are trying to draw between "sponsoring" and "adoption". I am not wanting to give up this package forever yet. I am hoping to find another avenue to get it into Debian. In the past certain DD's have uploaded it for me, and I am due to become one soon. I am wanting to give up (for a time) on trying to learn a lesson that is too hard for me to grasp while there is another goal to get software out to those who want to use it, like Michael Hanke. I do not think it is appropriate to keep making him wait weeks (after he so nicely sent in a working patch) while we disagree over location of credit-lines when all are reasonably accurate. And I do not think it is appropriate to ignore the policy decisions of maintainers who are trying to retain consistency across all their packages over multiyear plans: e.g. all my packages are tending (standardizing) towards autoconf, automake, cdbs, and consistent THANKS + AUTHORS files. This is my policy decision, it seems logical, and I don't understand how it can be counter Debian. If it is please explain in other words so I can grasp the point.
Best regards, Rudi On 10/5/07, Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Sorry to be so excited. Here is the now-public hg repository: > > hg clone http://hg.cilibrar.com/pkg-libsvm/ > > I welcome all changes that are technically or informationally > beneficial and are going to help this quickly get in Debian. I do not > want to switch packaging systems at this time because it makes more > sense to wait until the package switches completely with me as > upstream (maybe with a different name) and I re-enable the > autoconf/automake stuff that is currently not visible but on my > computer somewhere for later. Cheers, -r. > > On 10/5/07, Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for this awesome tip. It is actually a big winner and I will > > be using it a lot in the future to avoid writing all the useless files > > for every new project. > > > > > As far as this particular issue goes, have you considered simply > > > running automake --foreign ? > > > > This, of course, is a game-changer on my packaging policy (looks like > > a way to simplify) so I will be doing that in the future. However, > > the AUTHORS and THANKS files serve another purpose in this case > > besides letting (simply-invoked) > > automake succeed. They also help explain that my friend Chih-Jen and > > his friend Chih Chung wrote the core math code together, but I myself > > wrote the manpages, packaging related files, and some new features > > that Chih-Jen did not accept, like the quiet option. This is > > essential to be in Debian but since Chih-Jen never agreed with the > > feature enhancement I felt it important to distinguish who added it in > > these new files. Because I don't want to add things under his name. > > That is why I clarified who wrote what the way I did as I thought was > > standard creditting policy. > > > > BTW the source is not on alioth yet it is downloadable as a tar (but > > not automatically) from the web and I have a Mercurial repos here with > > the packaging files. I can put it up on a public Mercurial URL > > (http:) on my server but I am not sure if I have enough access to put > > it up on alioth or not yet ; my Debian account is still waiting. > > Cheers, > > -r. > > On 10/5/07, Aaron M. Ucko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Rudi Cilibrasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Michael Koch believes it is inappropriate for me to be changing > > > > AUTHORS and THANKS. Actually, I made those up quite some time ago to > > > > allow for automake to be used in packaging (optionally). But, he > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) > > > http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[EMAIL > > > PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > > "We can try to do it by breaking free of the mental prison of > > separation and exclusion and see the world in its interconnectedness > > and non-separability, allowing new alternatives to emerge." -- after > > Vandana Shiva > > > > > -- > "We can try to do it by breaking free of the mental prison of > separation and exclusion and see the world in its interconnectedness > and non-separability, allowing new alternatives to emerge." -- after > Vandana Shiva > -- "We can try to do it by breaking free of the mental prison of separation and exclusion and see the world in its interconnectedness and non-separability, allowing new alternatives to emerge." -- after Vandana Shiva -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
