Hi Kim,
On 03/04/2015 05:17 PM, Kim Christensen wrote:
I have found that the arpwatch package has been orphaned for more
than a 905 days now, and would like to adopt it. This would be my
first package and the first endeavour into helping out in any way, so
I'm looking for pointers in the right direction.
Orphan bug report:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686996
As you can see there has been some interest in adopting it, but none
of those people has accepted it. I've been doing local packages for my
own systems for the past years, and I've been reading the maintenance
guides for that.
Sounds like your first step should be to state your intention to adopt
on that bug report. Lucas gives good instructions how to do that in the
lest entry on the bug.
So if I understand the developer's manual correctly, I would need a
sponsor for proxying the maintenance of this package. If and when I
get a sponsor, I would send my updates to that person for QA and final
upload to the repository. Am I correct? If not, please help me figure
this out :-)
That's pretty much how it goes. The best thing is to pull together the
package, and when you think it is ready, upload it to mentors.debian.net.
Ask for some reviews for your package on this list, and you should
receive comments to help improve it.
Once you have a positive review, create a RFS bug (Request For Sponsor),
and hopefully a sponsor will offer to work with you and do an upload.
See here for more help on the process:
https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers
Regards,
Ross
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