Hi,

Il giorno dom, 15/07/2007 alle 15.24 +0200, Raphael Hertzog ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Francesco Namuri wrote:
> > > Francesco, where can I get your latest package?
> > > Did you base your work on the existing Ubuntu package made by Adrien?
> > 
> > I've made the debianization from scratch, unfortunately I have not
> > checked on the repositories ubuntu to verify if it had already been
> > debianizzed or no.
> 
> Given that I see in the .diff.gz :
> 
> +The Debian packaging is 
> +(C) 2006, Adrien Cunin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> +(C) 2007, Francesco Namuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> +and is licensed under the GPL, see above.
> 
> It seems pretty clear that you have based your work on Adrien's work
> (which he did in Ubuntu).

ops, I have made some confusion, sorry, perhaps I had slept little... :)

> There aren't many differences in the packaging. I've noted:
> - you used homebank-common whereas Adrien used homebank-data
> - you added the debian menu file
> 
> I suggest you take a look at the latest version of the package in Ubuntu:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+source/homebank
> 
> The upstream website links to http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=HomeBank
> it's easy to notice the Ubuntu package...
> 
> > The latest version of the package that I have tried to upload in debian
> > is in mentors.debian.net [1]
> > There is also a SVN repository on my webspace [2]
> 
> I'd suggest to put your work in the "collab-maint" SVN repository.
> Please give me both (you and Adrien) your "Alioth" username and I'll add
> you to the project so that you can "svn-inject -O <dscfile>
> svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-maint/ext-maint/" the package and
> then co-maintain it in SVN.
> 
> See http://wiki.debian.org/AliothPackagingProject for some infos.
> 
> Given that the first upload to Debian has been rejected, I'd suggest going
> on with "homebank-data" in place of "-common". That will ease the upgrade
> on the Ubuntu side. 
> 
> Don't forget to add "X-Vcs-Svn" headers in debian/control to document
> where the SVN repository is (see #391023).

ok, we made these changes, for the first upload to alioth, my username is
francesco-guest, I have created the account now...

> > > What about integrating the package in a VCS for co-maintenance
> > > with interested people? I wanted to integrate it in collab-maint SVN
> > > repository (and did it, but just removed it since I forgot to check WNPP
> > > first...).
> > 
> > I'm trying to become a DD, so I think that the co-maintenance with
> > other interested peoples it's good for my knowledge... :)
> > Let me know what to do.
> 
> Good! See above on how to go forward. Who was your sponsor for the first
> upload?

the first sponsor was Neil Williams, I'm in contact with him, for the
sponsorship of the new version with the GPL version of the icons.

Cheers,
francesco

PS
to add Adrien as a maintainer I need to add a "Uploaders" section in
debian/control?

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