Requesting Sponsorship walkthrough - Debian or MOTU?

[José Ernesto Dávila Pantoja]

Hello John,

As far as I can remember, the policy for new packages[0] is to upload them
to debian first as it is encouraged in the "Going through MOTU" section in
the link I send you.

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages

Best regards,


2013/8/10 John Kim <johnkim.ubuntu at gmail.com>

>  Hi MOTU,
>
> As of yesterday, my packaging for pylang is complete.  The next step now
> is to go through the motu procedure for submitting the package.
>
> Although I like that the MOTU sponsorship section was brief and listed the
> steps, the MOTU submission process still doesn't seem quite clear, at least
> for the new maintainer.  For instance, see "follow the new packaging
> instructions<http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/packaging-new-software.html#next-steps>to upload it to your PPA or a Launchpad branch."  The guide worked most
> beautifully until I hit the end, where I got confused.* What exactly do I
> have to upload, and how can I accomplish this?*  All it gives me is bzr
> commit -m... for what? Am I uploading packages or the root directory
> itself?   See the ls for the work directory holding all the packaging.
>
> john at kotux:~/packaging$ ls
> build-area                     pylang_0.0.3-0ubuntu1.dsc
> pylang                         pylang_0.0.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.changes
> pylang-0.0.3                   pylang_0.0.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
> pylang-0.0.3.tar.gz            pylang_0.0.3-0ubuntu1_source.changes
> pylang-package                 pylang_0.0.3.orig.tar.gz
> pylang_0.0.3-0ubuntu1.diff.gz
>
> Some comments.
> *pylang-0.0.3 and pylang-0.0.3.tar.gz are the original ones given to me by
> the developer. The rest of the files resulted from the packaging work
> itself.
> *The pylang directory is the directory from which I built the package.
> *builddeb stuff all went to build-area
>
> Here's the developer's intention, with questions that I too would ask.
>
> "I would prefer a direct submit into Ubuntu repositories. *Could we avoid
> to submit to Debian?*
> Reasons:
>   - I can control the versions in Ubuntu in a better way.
>   - We'll have PYLang in Ubuntu in a direct and quick way.
>   - We'll entry in Ubuntu 13.10, by the roadmap.
> *Could it be possible submit into Ubuntu now and into Debian in a
> separate way?**"*
> "PD:* Could it be possible backports to Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 & 13.04 too?"*
>
> What is the recommended practice? He's worried that submitting to Debian
> would mean that his package will be initially released when Saucy arrives,
> not before.
>
> Can somebody also provide a good roadmap for the MOTU decision?  A
> rationale for the Debian decision and a roadmap, if any, too would really
> help.  From IRC, I noticed that many packagers highly recommend going
> through Debian, whereas the developer asserts he would have an easier time
> going through Ubuntu instead.
>
> Thanks very much. I could use any help I can get right now.
>
> [1]
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages#Going_through_MOTU
>
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