Process for new packages?

Arnaud Vandyck avdyk@debian.org
Sat Oct 2 16:29:03 2004


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Cheers,

Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:58:30 +0200, 
"Marcus Crafter" <Marcus.Crafter@managesoft.com> wrote: 

> Hi Arnaud,
>
> Mate, no account on alioth that I am aware of - although I am a DD so
> should I have access by default or does it need to be created separately -
> I guess I would need CVS access to be set up anyway.
>
> Would be great if you could create an account for me and set up the CVS
> access - I have a set of packages I'd like hand over to pkg-java.
>
> Please let me know if you need any info like ssh keys, etc
>
> Thanks for your help mate.
>
> Cheers
>
> Marcus
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnaud Vandyck <arnaud.vandyck@ulg.ac.be>
> To: Marcus Crafter <Marcus.Crafter@managesoft.com>
> Sent: Fri Oct 01 09:02:42 2004
> Subject: Re: Process for new packages?
>
> Hi Marcus,
>
> this mail is still marked as important ;-) do you have an alioth
> account? are you a member of pkg-java?
>
> Mon, 06 Sep 2004 16:41:10 +0200,
> Marcus Crafter <crafterm@managesoft.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Arnaud,
>>
>> Hope you had a nice weekend.
>>
>> On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 15:08, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
>>> It seems I did not receive mails from Augustus 18th?!
>>
>> Strange stuff.. :/
>>
>>> > Hope all is going well.
>>> >
>>> > I'd like to package up a few libraries that are dependencies for
>>> > Groovy that aren't yet in Debian.
>>>
>>> Must be in main or contrib to join pkg-java
>>
>> Sure. This is fine with me.
>>
>>> > Can I just go ahead and add any package to be under the control of
>>> > pkg-java-maintainers (after an ITP) or do I need to request support
>>> > for it first from the mailing list, etc?
>>>
>>> Maybe you can file an ITP with this email address:
>>> Marcus Crafter <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
>>
>> Ok, no problems. I have a few libraries I'd like to bring over to
>> pkg-java-maintainers if possible (asm and classworlds). Is it simply a
>> matter of updating the maintainers line in the control file?
>>
>>> > Whats the process for adding new pkg-java-maintainer packages?
>>>
>>> Be a part of the team...
>>
>> Ok, this is fine - I guess I was wondering if I had to do anything
>> special like announce it on the list, but you've answered this above,
>> which is cool.
>>
>>> > BTW - according to
> [1]http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/developers.html I
>>> > should ask about joining the party... so, may I :)
>>>
>>> Do you have an Alioth account? Drop me a mail with it and I'll add you
>>> to the project.
>>
>> I've never logged into this machine before - should it create an account
>> like all of the other debian machines upon first login?
>>
>> If so I'll give it a go tonight then where I have access to my GPG key.
>> The account name will be crafterm though.
>>
>>> > BTWv2 - the "CVS repository" link on the above page returns an error:
>>> > "Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in
>>> > /usr/share/gforge/www/scm/index.php on line 21" - something must be
>>> > playing up there.
>>>
>>> file a bug to gforge? ;-)
>>>
>>>
> [2]http://alioth.debian.org/scm/controlleroo.php?group_id=30085&hide_attic=0
>>>
>>> [3]http://alioth.debian.org/scm/controller.php?group_id=30085
>>>
>>> [4]http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=pkg-java
>>
>> Cool, thanks for that.
>>
>> BTW - I noticed on java-policy that libraries can't have a dependency to
>> java-virtual-machine whereas applications can? How come this is the
>> case?
>>
>>>From what I understand this means java2 specific libraries (eg. like
>> fop) have a hard time making it into testing as there's no java2-runtime
>> there, whereas applications of the same status can?
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> - --
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> --
> Arnaud Vandyck
> [6]http://fosdem.org/
> Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting
> February 26-27 2005,
> Bruxelles, Belgium
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> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/developers.html
> 2. http://alioth.debian.org/scm/controlleroo.php?group_id=30085&hide_attic=0
> 3. http://alioth.debian.org/scm/controller.php?group_id=30085
> 4. http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=pkg-java
> 5. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
> 6. http://fosdem.org/

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Arnaud Vandyck
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Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting
February 26-27 2005,
Bruxelles, Belgium
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