> Hi Olivier

Hi Christian,

>>      I'd want to take the package "Boost-Jam"...
>> 
>>      In fact, I'm currently trying to port "openvip", a video application 
>> to fink, and already packaged successfully a "Boost-Jam" on
>> my own, before discovering that this package is in the "Help Needed" list.
>
> Judging from
>
> <http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/boost-jam>
>
> boost-jam already has a maintainer: Mark Treiber
>
> So, in this case you should first talk to him about updating his package. If 
> he doesn't want to maintain it anymore, then maybe you could take over the 
> maintainership. This package is in the "Help Needed" list, since it is not yet 
> moved to the stable tree.

Ha ! ok.. I'll get in touch with him, to see if I can be of any help, so.

>>      who should I send my info file to be approved, or how should I
>> proceed to become a maintainer ? (hope I did not miss some faq :) )
>
> If you want to package something not yet in fink you should use the package 
> submission tracker linked from the fink home page. Remember to run
>
> fink validate package.info
>
> and
>
> fink validate package.deb
>
> before submitting your package to the package submission tracker.

Ok great. I'll do this as soon as I have nice new packages to submit.

Thank you for the clarifications :)


Regards,


Olivier


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