Re: [swarm-hackers] Swarm in debian/ubuntu

[Pavel Vinogradov]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Scott Christley <address@hidden> wrote:
> What I'm not completely sure of is how we actually get it into main Debian,
> I think we need a Debian developer to sponsor us.  Actually becoming a
> Debian maintainer appears to be a long involved process.
  Debian Developer (DD) and Debian maintainer (DM) is two different
position. First person - is official member of Debian team and to
become DD you must pass long procedure and i think you don't need it
to maintain swarm and some other packages. To become DM you only need
packages maintained by you in Debian repository. And to upload you
packages from personal repository to official you need a sponsor
(someone from DD who chech you package and upload it to Debian). If
you want to include Swarm in Debian repository
http://mentors.debian.net/ is good place to start.

> What do you think about my idea of having multiple packages corresponding to
> different Swarm variations?
  As Nima Talebi already point - one swarm source package can produce
multiple binary packages for libs, docs, java and gnu-step versions.
But this part of Debian packaging is most complicated.

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Pavel Vinogradov
NixDev.Net, Open Source Developer