Bug#405224: ITP: vdr-plugin-epgsearch -- VDR Plugin that provides an extended schedules menu

[Christian Meder]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 20:32 +0100, Thomas Schmidt wrote: 
> Hi
> 
> * Christian Meder schrieb am 02.01.07, um 00:37 Uhr:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Christian Meder <chris at absolutegiganten.org>
> > 
> >   Package name    : vdr-plugin-epgsearch
> >   Version         : 0.9.19
> >   Upstream Author : Christian Wieninger <cwieninger at gmx.de>
> >   URL             : http://freenet-homepage.de/cwieninger/html/vdr-epg-search__english_.html
> >   License         : GPL
> >   Programming Lang: C
> >   Description     : VDR Plugin that provides an extended schedules menu
> > 
> >  vdr-plugin-epgsearch can be used as a replacement for the default schedules
> >  menu entry. It looks like the standard schedules menu, but adds some
> >  additional functions:
> >
> > ...
> 
> Thank you very much for your intrest in packaging the plugin. I would
> very much prever if you would join the Debian VDR Team and would
> maintain the package in our svn-repository, the reasons for this are
> simple: The Debian VDR Team could benefit from a few more active
> developers, especially developers with upload rights ;-), and it would 
> be better to maintain vdr-plugins team-based because allmoast every new
> upstream-version of vdr requires a rebuild of all plugins - it would
> be a lot easier to coordinate such uploads if all plugins would be
> maintained by a team.
> 
> In fact, we have allready a package of the epgsearch-plugin, as well 
> as packages for many other plugins (see [1] and [2]), there are just a 
> lot of ITP's missing. ;-)
> 
> Let us know if you want to join the Debian VDR Team, i can give you
> commit-access to the repository, i just need your username on alioth.
> (I guess it is "meder", right?)
> 
> [1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-vdr-dvb
> [2] http://www.e-tobi.net/wsvn/vdr-pkg/?rev=0&sc=0

No problem. I've got no preferences where it's maintained so I added an
account for myself (bombadil-guest) on alioth and subscribed to the
pkg-vdr-dvb-devel list on alioth. Let me know where I should start.

Actually I checked the pkg-vdr-dvb project and wnpp before posting my
ITP. At least to me the link to the subversion repo wasn't obvious. I
checked the cvs repo which is linked from the project page and noticed
that the mail archive holds mostly spam. So I went ahead and ITPed.

BTW what's holding the unreleased packages from entering the main Debian
archive ? Lack of manpower or some other specific plan ? Could we at
least ITP the external packages which are expected to enter the archive
in the short term ? this would potentially help confused people like
me ;-) 

Greetings,


			Christian
-- 
Christian Meder, email: chris at absolutegiganten.org

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