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

[Thomas Schmidt]

* Christian Meder schrieb am 03.01.07, um 21:27 Uhr:
> Let me know where I should start.

First you should take a look at [1] and maybe the documentation of 
svn-buildpackage and setup a local working copy of the packages you
are interested in. (plus the tarballs directory as we are using the
mergewithupstream-mode of svn-buildpackage and we keep all the
upstream tarballs in the tarballs directory)

> 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.

Yes, thank you for pointing this out, if now deactivated the
SCM-Component on the alioth-project, as i did not find a way to let it
point to the svn-repository instead of the old cvs one. ;-)

> 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 ;-)

Well, as Tobias said allready, the plan was to add a few plugins to
the archive after the release of etch, but i guess another reason for
the missing ITP's is just a lack of time. (Most packages in the
svn-repository are in a releasable shape, but in a few cases there are
legal questions, especially with some packages in Tobias's private 
repository.) 

Another reason for being rather conservative with uploading too many 
new plugins may be that upstream is quite dead on a lot of plugins
and i do not really want to become the new upstream for these packages. 
(vdr-plugin-weather is a good example, it is allready in the archive, 
but upstream is dead and we spent quite some time to port the plugin 
from vdr 1.2.x to 1.4.x.) ;-)

[1] http://pkg-vdr-dvb.alioth.debian.org/


Regards,
Thomas

-- 
Thomas Schmidt, Debian VDR Team
http://pkg-vdr-dvb.alioth.debian.org/
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