On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:34:06PM +0900, Kobayashi Noritada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Kenshi Muto recently proposed me to upload aptitude packages into > testing-proposed-updates for updating translations without feature > updates. It seems to be a good idea for me. Daniel, what do you > think?
I'm not sure I fully understand the advantages of this approach, but it would be ok by me. It should be as simple as pulling the translation patches into (a branch of) the debian repository and adding a changelog entry and tag. > If Daniel doesn't have much time to work on package maintainance works > for etch and still asking for a co-maintainer (as stated in a comment > to #364621) although using testing-proposed-updates seems to be good, > I'd love to help as a co-maintainer, if it works and is approved. > Although I am not skillful as a maintainer (and less skillful as a > programmer), being currently trained as a package maintainer for my > first (adopted) package by my sponsor, I can help some parts of > package maintainance works, such as applying patches to fix > documentation, to update message/documentation translations, and to > build new versions of the aptitude package. How about it? Sure. The Debian packaging is in a darcs repository at http://people.debian.org/~dburrows/darcs/aptitude-debian, which is a branch of the upstream repository. At least to start with, you could work on those repositories and then use "darcs send" to email me patches. btw, let me know if you need help with darcs. I'll include a brief tutorial here. The fundamental concept in darcs is the "repository", which is a collection of code and patches. Each "committed" change to a repository turns into a patch, and patches can be moved from one repository to another. Basic darcs commands are: "darcs get http://some.where/repo"; downloads the given repository. In fact, it creates a local branch of that repository that's co-equal to the original repository. "darcs pull [http://some.where/repo]"; downloads and applies any patches from the given repository that aren't already stored in your local repository. If you don't specify a repository, "pull" will use the last repository you downloaded from. "darcs record" looks for local modifications to your repository and lets you turn them into patches. "darcs send [http://some.where/repo]"; sends patches that you've recorded locally but that aren't in the remote repository to the email address of the remote repository's owner. The patches are in a special format that darcs can apply directly. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
