New version of package guidedog

[Antonio Cardoso Martins]

Hello Gianfranco,

Thank you for your suggestions. Although a little overwhelming, i see
some important suggestions there. Please note that guidedog is not a
game, but a networking tool instead.

Thanks

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On 04-01-2015 09:25, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi Antonio,
>
>> Hello Ubuntu guidedog package maintainers,
>> Since guidedog is no longer part of Ubuntu probably because it has not
>> be updated since Qt3, i decided to re-write it in pure Qt5, dropping the
>> requirements for Python, CMake and KDE.
>> Attached, you have a new version of guidedog, which has the same
>> features as the original guidedog-1.0.0. It was written in QtCreator 5.
>> There are no other requirements besides Qt5 and gawk.
>> I know that Paul Cupis originally debianized the guidedog source code.
>> The idea with this new version would be to make it again available in
>> Ubuntu repositories for the newer Ubuntu versions, however,i don't have
>> the knowledge to make it a package.
>> Can you point me where would be the best place to upload the source code
>> and someone that could help with the re-packaging of this tool?
>
> thanks for your work, I can give you just a few starting points:
>
> 1)
>
> http://snapshot.debian.org/package/guidedog/1.0.0-6/
>
> this is the old url package, that got removed from debian/ubuntu
> the packaging is really old, so you might find better to start again from scratch,
> rather than using that old packaging style.
>
> 2) I don't see any particular reason to package this game in ubuntu only.
> You might consider packaging it into debian and get it automatically synced into ubuntu
> aswell
>
> Debian has a good pkg-games team, you will find many eyes to look at the package
>
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-games/
>
> (the list is at the bottom)
>
> 3) maint-guide
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
>
>
> this might help you in starting your packaging journey
>
> 4) github, alioth, wherever
>
> you can publish your source on github, alioth, or whenever you think is best for you, and 
>
> ask people to review your code
> (also debian mentors is a good place)
>
> 5) find your sponsor
> your sponsor will review the debian packaging and upload when and if the package is suitable for 
>
> unstable
>
> 6) play the game ;)
>
>
> I don't have uploads permissions, but I can help you in finding a sponsor and in reviewing the
> packaging if you put on a git repository.
>
> (if nobody objects I would like to followup on 
> pkg-games-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> )
>
>
> cheers,
>
>
> G.
> .
>