[Utnubu-discuss] Utnubu and collaborative maintenance with Ubuntu MOTU

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 09:44:28 UTC 2006


On 1/16/06, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> So, you want to maintain your packages, with help and sponsorship from
> utnubu, in debian and rely on ubuntu's syncing to get your work into
> ubuntu? And you want to be listed as the maintainer for these packages?
> Or did I get you wrong?

There are several types of package we are currently discussing. First,
there are packages which I generally use and can actively care for
them. For those package, I try maintain to them properly as NM: 
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=siretart@tauware.de

There are, however, packages, which I don't use on a regular basis,
but we have around in ubuntu. I would feel way more comfortable if the
maintainer field was pointing to a mailinglist for collaborative work,
you suggested utbubu-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org, and I'm okay
with that.

The following packages fall in a similar category: wifi-radar
(packaged by Ante Karamatic), which handles wifi configuration, and
min12xxw (packaged by Stefan Potyra), a printer driver. Those packages
should work in debian just fine, but I cannot rule out the possibility
that they could make problems in a debian system because they are
quite hardware/kernel/environment (sudo to name) dependend. So a team
consisting of both debian and ubuntu users caring for them in a common
svn would my best IMO.

I'm CC: ubuntu-motu for more input. how do you think about this?
Can/Should we maintain 'easy' packages, which are very likley to 'just
work' in debian under our own hat or should every package we want to
be in debian be under the utnubu hat?

--
regards,
    Reinhard



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