<div dir="ltr">Hello John,<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>[0] <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/8/10 John Kim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkim.ubuntu@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkim.ubuntu@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi MOTU,<br>
<br>
As of yesterday, my packaging for pylang is complete. The next step
now is to go through the motu procedure for submitting the package.<br>
<br>
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 <a href="http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/packaging-new-software.html#next-steps" target="_blank">new
packaging instructions</a> to upload it to your PPA or a Launchpad
branch." The guide worked most beautifully until I hit the end,
where I got confused.<b> What exactly do I have to upload, and how
can I accomplish this?</b> 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. <br>
<br>
<blockquote>john@kotux:~/packaging$ ls<br>
build-area pylang_0.0.3-0ubuntu1.dsc<br>
pylang pylang_0.0.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.changes<br>
<font color="#ff0000">pylang-0.0.3</font>
pylang_0.0.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb<br>
<font color="#ff0000">pylang-0.0.3.tar.gz</font>
pylang_0.0.3-0ubuntu1_source.changes<br>
pylang-package pylang_0.0.3.orig.tar.gz<br>
pylang_0.0.3-0ubuntu1.diff.gz<br>
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Some comments.<br>
*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.<br>
*The pylang directory is the directory from which I built the
package.<br>
*builddeb stuff all went to build-area<br>
<br>
Here's the developer's intention, with questions that I too would
ask. <br>
<br>
<blockquote>"I would prefer a direct submit into Ubuntu
repositories. <i>Could we avoid to submit to Debian?</i><br>
Reasons:<br>
- I can control the versions in Ubuntu in a better way.<br>
- We'll have PYLang in Ubuntu in a direct and quick way.<br>
- We'll entry in Ubuntu 13.10, by the roadmap.<br>
<i>Could it be possible submit into Ubuntu now and into Debian in
a separate way?</i><i>"</i><br>
"PD:<i> Could it be possible backports to Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10
& 13.04 too?"</i></blockquote>
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.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Thanks very much. I could use any help I can get right now.<br>
<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages#Going_through_MOTU" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages#Going_through_MOTU</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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John Kim
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