On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > People embarking on packaging a bit of software are also supposed to > contact the upstream author. When one contacts the upstream author > and they respond quickly and say they'd love to have the software > packaged and they don't know of anyone else doing so, an ITP can seem > (depending on the particulars of the situation) a bit superfluous. > > If people are going to do only one of (a) heads-up to upstream author, > and (b) file an ITP, I personally would rather see them do (a). Of > course, doing both would typically be best.
Might be best to both at once (using X-Debbugs-CC)? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6g41h_ra16ps-kd0e1fah9myqd_cyx+pj-bmfltww1...@mail.gmail.com
