Le 14/06/12 10:01, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:50:54PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: >>>> Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: >>>> >>>> dget -x >>>> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yorick/yorick_2.2.02+dfsg-2.dsc >>> >>> I wonder why you do not maintain the package at git.debian.org. This >>> would make for sponsors and other team members way easier. I tried >>> >>> debcheckout --user tille yorick >>> >>> but failed becuase Vcs-Git points to github.com where I do not have any >>> login nor could I commit some changes. For the sake of getting the >>> metapackage which I do consider very interesting I would make some >>> exception and would consider sponsering it anyway but otherwise I would >>> probably insist in sticking to Debian Science policy and ask for using a >>> debian.org hosted Vcs. Would you consider a move or do you want to >>> stick to the current location for the moment? >>> >> >> Hi Andreas, >> >> The reason is I never invested enough time to understand how to do that >> (or even how to properly package under git). I haven't pushed my changes >> to github yet. > > So I just uploaded the package as is to get the metapackage in.
Thanks, Andreas. > >> Note that at the moment the package is not under the debian science >> packaging team umbrella. And this is also mostly because I was unsure >> how to proceed. >> >> I would be willing to go in that direction in the future, of course. > > I would definitely ask for this. Please try to follow Debian Science > policy[1] closely and use the debian.org infrastructure to enable > effective team maintenance. I have two questions that I need to decide before I commit anything to alioth: - since Yorick and its add-ons make 17 source packages (and growing), wouldn't it make sense to put their respective repositories in a subdirectory: /git/debian-science/packages/yorick/yorick.git /git/debian-science/packages/yorick/yorick-foo.git /git/debian-science/packages/yorick/yorick-bar.git - Yorick is only distributed from github (no distinct tarballs, just git tags). It has to be repackaged to meet the DFSG. What I was experimenting with on github is: - one branch mirroring upstream (contains non-DFSG-free material); - one branch for the DFSG free source; - one branch for the Debian packaging. Is that a reasonable approach for Alioth or should the non-DFSG-free files never enter the debian.org domain? > Further things to consider: I'm not a user of yorick but from my > feeling it would be rather typical to name the metapackage "yorick" and > the former yorick package "yorick-base" (or something like this). I > left it as is for the moment because I assume you will have your reasons > to do it that way but you might consider this for future releases. I add thought about that too and I'm glad you answer that for me. I think we are too close from freezing to undertake such a transition (all the yorick-* packages would need to depend on yorick-base instead of yorick etc...). Isn't that also your opinion ? Depending or "yorick-base | yorick" would certainly ease transition and upgrades. Regards, Thibaut. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd9f1af.7070...@free.fr