wanpipe packages in Debian

[Damien Sandras]

Hi,

Le lundi 19 novembre 2007 à 20:08 +0100, Kilian Krause a écrit :
> Damien,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:57:46PM +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Le lundi 19 novembre 2007 à 11:40 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen a écrit :
> > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:01:57AM +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Le lundi 19 novembre 2007 à 05:57 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen a écrit :
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > What would you suggest ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > pkg-voip packages are co-maintained. We will want someone who can answer
> > > > > questions for the package (bug reports, verifications of patches, etc.).
> > > > > 
> > > > > So I would like to ask you if it would be possible for you to remain
> > > > > available to answer questions on new packages.
> > > > 
> > > > I am not an approved Debian packager, and we are doing packages for our
> > > > own internal use. I do not want to become a Debian packager because I do
> > > > not have enough time for that.
> > > > 
> > > > However, I am ready to help someone who would want to become an official
> > > > debian packager.
> > > 
> > > Nither am I. If you want a commit access to the pkg-voip repository,
> > > you'll just need to open an account on alioth. Account for non
> > > debian-developers there have a -guest suffix. 
> > > 
> > > I don't think, however, that we can have a package there without someone
> > > who can answer questions for it.
> > 
> > Most probably Kilian will read this e-mail. I have very good contacts
> > with Kilian. If he agrees to rework what I have done and use it as a
> > basis for better packages, I can send him the debian tarball that will
> > work with the latest Wanpipe stable release.
> 
> actually I have read it over at pkg-voip already. ;)
> 
> The question at hand was however not who could package it, but who could
> verify the packaging once made. At least if I have grasped the discussion
> correctly. Having a sort of packaging maintained shouldn't be much of a
> problem. I'm sure Tzafrir will agree here.
> 
> 
> > Kilian, are you ready to take over maintainership of that package ? I do
> > not want to do it officially.
> 
> IMO no problem importing this into Debian if there is someone sending in a
> version that's "practically proven working". And once it's reworked and
> commited to keep trying/using that version and inform us in case things go
> utterly wrong - preferably with a patch. ;-)

We can do that. We only repackage with our own kernel, if something
breaks, we know it.
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