How to get a package uploaded?

[Adrian Knoth]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:39:41PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> > Ok. I checked Debian Multimedia wiki for instructions. Is there a
> > pkg-mm-maintainers guideline where to put/send what?
> not that I knew, but I think we definitly need one.

At least I need one. ;) Looks like

   - the whole package is imported into git, not just the debian/
     directory.

     However you then create the orig.tar.gz, but I guess you have ways
     to do that. (tagged upstream-version/pristine-tar or whatever)

   - new upstream releases are imported, too, probably also tagged


> > We surely want to include FFADO, I've tried the ubuntu package, and it's
> > working out of the box, just the basic modifications to changelog and
> > control.
> It seems firewire related, right? - sorry, I cannot comment on that
> then, I don't have firewire devices.

Don't worry, I'm pretty common with FFADO ;)


> > For mhwaveedit: I don't think it's worth importing into git. The release
> > is older than one year, probably the last one. Though there are still
> > two lintian warnings, I don't see we're going to modify the package a
> > lot in the future.
> You mean it's not worth because it is going to be removed from debian?

I don't expect another upstream release. ;)


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