OpenProj Packaging Question

[Daniel Holbach]

On Fr, 2008-01-25 at 14:51 -0500, Jon Reagan wrote:
> After I had made a blog posting, the OpenProj project
> (http://openproj.org/) had emailed me and mentioned they wanted to
> bring their packages into the Ubuntu repositories.  I personally have
> no experience packaging, so I am not sure how it works.  The project
> has a .deb download available, which they would like to add to the
> repositories.  They also have never worked with distribution
> repositories, so this will be a new experience for them as well.  I
> imagine there is a lot of work to bring an application into the
> repositories, so any help that you can give me will be greatly
> appreciated!

Unfortunately a .deb package does not help much with the review of
packages. We can only review source packages for inclusion.
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages has more
information on the topic.

Have a nice day,
 Daniel