MOTU Application

[Daniel Holbach]

On Mi, 2007-12-12 at 15:12 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 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?

CCing Julian in case he's not on motu-council at lists.u.c

Have a nice day,
 Daniel