[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#778380: Bug#778380: update check-mk-server to 1.2.4p5

[Alexander Wirt]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, Илья Рассадин wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Well, you scary me not enough to drop it ))
> 
> So, please, create account for me.
you have to create your account on your own on alioth.debian.org, if you did
that, tell me your username.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Ilya Rassadin.
> 
> пн, 9 марта 2015 г. в 12:01, Alexander Wirt <formorer at debian.org>:
> 
> > On Sun, 08 Mar 2015, Илья Рассадин wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I missed message in check-mk mailing list, so answer here.
> > >
> > > I built check-mk-1.2.4p5 deb packages for myself and now trying to build
> > > check-mk-1.2.6.
> > > I'm not sure that i right person to maintain this package in debian,
> > cause
> > > i have no experience at such work and check-mk is my first approach to
> > > create deb package, but i want to try.
> > >
> > > So, what i need to do to become package maintainer?
> > Given that check-mk is one of the worst source packages I have ever seen, I
> > am not sure that check-mk is a good package to start with.
> >
> > Unfortunately the upstream developer don't really have an idea about
> > distributing software (tarballs in tarballs? custom setup script? wtf?).
> >
> > That made the initial packages one of the most challenging tasks I ever did
> > in packages (and trust me, I have a lot of packages).
> >
> > And to be honest, I am not sure that every component of check-mk is
> > included
> > properly in their package (they include a lot of different software in
> > their
> > tarballs).
> >
> > However, if you really want to start with it, create an account on alioth.
> > I
> > will give you commit permissions afterwards. Then create a new (!, please
> > don't commit into master) branch, commit your changes and ask me for
> > review.
> > If I am happy I will merge it for master and release the package
> > afterwards.
> > If this works well, we will start with the Debian Maintainer process (you
> > will need an advocate for that process. And if I am happy with your will I
> > will advocate you).
> >
> > Hope that helps
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >