On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:19:26PM +0100, Teemu Ikonen a écrit : > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Teemu Ikonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Description : C library for accessing Crystallographic Binary Files > > Have you considered team maintainance? In the order of relevance, there > are three Alioth projects where you could host your packages: debichem, > debian-med, pkg-science.
In principle team maintenance would be great. In practice the current efforts in alioth have some technical problems. The practice seems to be to store only the debian dir to the version control repository, but one usually needs to patch the upstream source, even if only the makefiles. This then leads to storing patch stacks in the debian dir, which is rather cumbersome (more arguments here: http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/dpatch_dbs_etc_etc_etc_etc_considered_harmful/ ) For my packages, I try to have a version controlled debian branch at some public location (launchpad seems to have the lowest barrier to entry and supports a decent VCS), and will gladly give commit rights to people who are interested in helping. Best, Teemu
