What to do for new packages

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Felipe,

|--==> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:04:12 -0300, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> said:

  FS> El 27/11/08 18:01 Reinhard Tartler escribió:
  >>Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> writes:
  >>> OK, so I'm about to co-maintain liblo, which is an OSC library, and can
  >>> be considered a multimedia package (csound, rosegarden and ardour are
  >>> some "big" packages using it).
  >>
  >>ok. cool!
  >>
  >>> So... I want to bring it under the scope of the teams-to-become-one. I
  >>> have imported the sources into a git repository.
  >>
  >>IIRC we agreed on tracking upstream releases in an upstream branch,
  >>maintain debian packaging in a branch derived from the upstream branch
  >>but keep patches to the upstream source in quilt. Is that correct?
  >>
  >>We should really document that somewhere. Probably on wiki.debian.org
  >>would be a good place.

  FS> OK, I've started a page: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Merge. Please 
  FS> add, edit, remove whatever you think necessary. I just filled a stub based on 
  FS> what I think we have agreed.

Excellent. Apparently pkg-multimedia does not have a wiki page yet, we
might want to use the DebianMultimedia one as base to move forward.

  >>
  >>> demudi already has a git area
  >>> enabled in alioth, pkg-multimedia doesn't. Should I use the demudi area?
  >>> What list should I put in the Maintainer field?
  >>> Given that pkg-multimedia is more active maybe we should it?
  >>
  >>I really don't mind using pkg-multimedia-maintainers, since it is more
  >>active. I've setup a doodle poll, please vote here:
  >>
  >>http://doodle.com/v6df6bx2akdft73f

  FS> Great! I placed my vote. I agree with Fabian that debian-multimedia may be 
  FS> associated with Marillat's repository, and we should avoid that.

That is true, even though I would point out that as far as I remember
Marillat's repository used to be called simply "marillat", and only
later the name has been changed to "debian-multimedia" (about 1.5/2
years ago I think). The debian-multimedia mailing Debian list and
associated team is there since more than 5 years now. Marillat and the
other maintainers at debian-multimedia.org could have asked our
opinion before using that name.

Ciao!

Free