MOTU Application

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Wed Dec 12 20:12:32 GMT 2007


On Wednesday 12 December 2007 09:28, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Daniel Holbach wrote:
> > Hello Julian,
> >
> > On Fr, 2007-11-30 at 16:20 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> >> I want to applicate as a MOTU.
> >
> > without the input of mentors it's hard to make a decision.
>
> mvo and mrpouit both told me that they will write something.
>
> > Obviously you've done a few uploads to Ubuntu yourself and ported a few
> > Ubuntu packages to work in Debian too. I like it very much that you're
> > interested in making both, Debian and Ubuntu, work.
> >
> > Can you tell us a bit about your work? About the nature of changes you
> > did?
>
> I started contributing to Debian in April, by maintaining aufs (Another
> UnionFS) [Not merged by me yet]
>
> In may, I took over development of ndisgtk (originally written for Ubuntu
> by Sam Pohlenz), and started to maintain it in Debian and Ubuntu.
>
> In July, I did a lot of backmerging in Debian, packaging app-install-data
> [took-over], sexy-python and gnome-app-install.
> It was also the month I took over the development of dir2ogg and packaged
> it for Debian (based on mrpouit's Ubuntu package). Since November, I
> maintain dir2ogg in Ubuntu, too.
>
> Since November, I work together with mvo and a DD on getting
> command-not-found into Debian, in such a way that it can be synced (it's on
> alioth, project name: cnf). [It just got rejected].
>
> I try to keep the differences between the Debian and Ubuntu versions of my
> packages very small. There are some differences:
>
> differences Debian - Ubuntu:
> ndisgtk     - In Debian, I use su-to-root in desktop files [because my
> mentor recommended it], in Ubuntu I use gksu/kdesu to be able to drop the
> "menu" dependency. sexy-python - Changed the binary package name from
> sexy-python to python-sexy [Python Policy] (seems you made the mistake in
> the first upload to Ubuntu, Daniel). BTW, this could by synced now. 

Have you requested a sync?  

> dir2ogg 
>     - Differences in recommends/suggests, as some packages available in
> Debian main are not in Ubuntu universe. In Debian's 0.11-1, I switched to
> VCS-* and Homepage fields, but kept the old ones in Ubuntu because Ubuntu's
> dpkg did not support these at that time. 
> g-a-i       - Most changes have > been made by glatzor, I did some 
> fine-tuning and actually cleaned up the packaging. [g-a-i = 
> gnome-app-install] 
>
> In many cases, I found the copyright file to be not suitable for Debian,
> because not all copyright holders were listed or the bad license was
> specified [sexy-python].

What are the policy differences between Ubuntu and Debian that make these 
continuing differences suitable for both distributions?

I want to commend you for yor efforts to maintain your work in Debian so both 
distributions can benifit.

Scott K



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