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| Alex Papadopoulos 2005-03-30, 5:58 pm |
| Hello,
I am interested in adding a project into the Debian Project and wanted to
ask a couple of questions on how to achieve this.
After having read the documentations I understood that I needed to apply as
a new maintainer (with the appropriate identification process, needing an
"advocate" Debian developper) and then find a sponsor that would accept
upload the packages for me.
If these two steps are performed correctly, this means that my package will
be available on the debian repositories (on unstable, until it is considered
stable enough to "apply" for testing) ?
If this is so, what is approximatively the time between the upload of my
package by a sponsor and the actual "distribution" of my package through
debian repositories ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Alexis Papadopoulos
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| Matthew Palmer 2005-03-30, 5:58 pm |
| On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:18:28PM +0000, Alex Papadopoulos wrote:
> After having read the documentations I understood that I needed to apply as
> a new maintainer (with the appropriate identification process, needing an
> "advocate" Debian developper) and then find a sponsor that would accept
> upload the packages for me.
You don't necessarily have to apply as a new maintainer.
> If these two steps are performed correctly, this means that my package will
> be available on the debian repositories (on unstable, until it is
> considered stable enough to "apply" for testing) ?
Yes. Once your sponsor uploads your package (after it has been checked
over), your package will initially appear in the unstable archive.
> If this is so, what is approximatively the time between the upload of my
> package by a sponsor and the actual "distribution" of my package through
> debian repositories ?
On first upload, a package must await some manual processing by the
ftpmasters. There has been a bit of a backlog built up in this area, but at
current observations packages are flowing through at a decent rate, so I
wouldn't expect your package to sit in the NEW queue for more than a couple
of weeks. After that, subsequent uploads of your package should appear on
all mirrors in less than a day, although buildd queues might cause this to
be delayed a little for some architectures.
This is all a bit confusing; there has been a diagram of the way a package
floats around posted here recently, do a search for debian package diagram
or similar on google.
Also, you might be interested in joining the debian-mentors mailing list,
where basic packaging and development questions are more usually asked.
- Matt
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| Alex Papadopoulos 2005-03-30, 5:58 pm |
| Ok thanks for the quick reply. Another question though that I forgot before,
if the sponsor uploads the packages is he automatically the maintainer of
the package (because if this is the case, then it means that sponsoring is a
very demanding process for him, and makes therefore sponsoring a quite
difficult task for me).
And by maintaining activally my package is it possible to become allegible
for debian developper, being able therefore to upload my packages on my own
?
Thanks for the help, any further, more technical-related questions will be
posted on debian-mentors...
Alexis Papadopoulos
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| Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 2005-03-30, 5:58 pm |
| On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Alex Papadopoulos wrote:
> Ok thanks for the quick reply. Another question though that I forgot
> before, if the sponsor uploads the packages is he automatically the
> maintainer of the package (because if this is the case, then it means that
Yes and no. He is as responsible for the package as the one he is
sponsoring, although not all sponsors seem to take this seriously enough.
> sponsoring is a very demanding process for him, and makes therefore
> sponsoring a quite difficult task for me).
Yes, sponsoring properly takes a lot of time. Slightly less than
maintaining the package itself, IMHO.
> And by maintaining activally my package is it possible to become allegible
> for debian developper, being able therefore to upload my packages on my own
> ?
Yes, after some time. Please read http://nm.debian.org.
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| Matthew Palmer 2005-03-30, 5:58 pm |
| On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:30:26PM +0000, Alex Papadopoulos wrote:
> Ok thanks for the quick reply. Another question though that I forgot
> before, if the sponsor uploads the packages is he automatically the
> maintainer of the package (because if this is the case, then it means that
> sponsoring is a very demanding process for him, and makes therefore
> sponsoring a quite difficult task for me).
Not really. The maintainer of a package is the person listed in the
Maintainer: field for that package. The job of a sponsor is a fairly
demanding one, though -- you have to carefully check the package over to
make sure it is as good as it can be, and doesn't contain any potentially
harmful code. It's generally preferred if the sponsor uses the package or
is interested in it in some way, so they're more motivated to check the
package properly.
> And by maintaining activally my package is it possible to become allegible
> for debian developper, being able therefore to upload my packages on my own
> ?
Yes. That is the typical way to become a Debian Developer these days:
maintain one or more packages through a sponsor for a little while, so you
get experience and confidence, and then apply for NM (New Maintainer) and go
from there through the process.
- Matt
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| Ben Hill 2005-03-30, 7:23 pm |
| On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 00:22 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> This is all a bit confusing; there has been a diagram of the way a
> package floats around posted here recently, do a search for debian
> package diagram or similar on google.
http://debian.home.pipeline.com/newdebian2.png
HTH
Ben
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