[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] RFA: storaged -- Disk Manager

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi Ken,


First, I'm sorry your message was ignored for a long time. One of the
quirks of the debian bug tracker is that messages are not
automatically forwarded to all participants, so probably no-one saw
your message until today :(

On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:21:19 -0600 Ken Dreyer <kdreyer at redhat.com> wrote:
> I've wanted to become a Debian packager for a while now, and I'm
> interested in maintaining this package in Debian/Ubuntu. What is the
> next step?


Excellent! I hope you are still interested. If so, the first step is
to get in contact with Andreas (CCed). The git repository is located
in collab-maint, so you need to apply to that project to get write
access to the repository (see details at [1]). As usual with git, you
can create a separate repo elsewhere in the meantime and have your
changes merged by Andreas.

If you aren't very familiar with packaging, there are plenty of
resources online[2]. This package repository uses git-buildpackage so
reading its manual would be a good idea too[3].

As far as package-specific work is concerned, it appears to me that
the main needs are:

- Coordinate with udisks2 maintainers (CCed), as storaged now provides
the same APIs as udisks2. Possibly drop udisks2 in favor of storaged.
- Package the dependencies for the plugins so that they work. As noted
by Andreas there are already PPAs with packages[4], so probably
starting from there is a good idea.


Others may comment on whether more work is needed.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00006.html
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Intro
[3] http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.html
[4] https://github.com/storaged-project/storaged/issues/41#issuecomment-205769607

-- 
Saludos,
Felipe Sateler