Hi Maato,

I'm trying my best to get your volumeicon as the official Debian package
(please check this for details,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586522).

I'm wondering if you

- could provide its Debian source package
- willing to maintain the package in Debian

Thanks!

tong

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:40 PM, David Bremner <brem...@unb.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:37:06 -0400, Tong Sun <sunt...@cpan.org> wrote:
>
> > So, Please upload the volumeicon package, as the Debian packages are
> > already there at the web site,
> > http://www.softwarebakery.com/maato/volumeicon.html
> >
> > I would assume only cosmetic changes are necessary for the packages
> > to be uploaded. Please go ahead.
>
> Usually there is more to it than that, since upstream authors are not
> usually too worried about conforming to Debian policy, but rather
> working on fixing bugs and getting new versions of their software
> released.  You could start by asking upstream to provide Debian source
> packages, and perhaps ask them if they are willing to maintain the
> package in Debian, or consider maintaining it yourself if they are not
> interested.
>
> All the best,
>
> David
>

Reply via email to