[maemo-developers] Sponsoring Maemo packages into Debian

[From: Carlos Guerreiro]

ext Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
Hi Guillem,
> Now that the maemo-gtk and hildon situation is in a way better shape
> (thanks to the great efforts of the desktop team, which have reduced
> the gtk delta between maemo and upstream), I'd like to offer package
> sponsoring for the core of the libraries (for now) into debian.
>   
It's great to hear the fine progress the team has been making on
upstream alignment has reached the point where you can feel
comfortable sponsoring :-)

By the way, Hildon Desktop developers are doing great work
making it scale and decoupling it from the specifics of maemo-gtk.
I expect it to be soon in shape for being packaged for debian.

> So, my conditions:
>
>  * might have time to mentor.
>  * the sponsoring will be strict (maybe a bit more than my usual
>    sponsoring standards).
>  * no interest in anything that might go outside main.
>  * no interest in actual maintainership.
>
> And of course anything uploaded to debian will end up eventually being
> in ubuntu, even if it might not get the same support.
>   
Sounds good. It's certainly worth investing effort on our side
to make this happen.
> My hope is that this, combined with the debian armel port might reduce
> the massive forking proliferation that can be seen in maemo right now,
> and also make maemo more neutral.
>   
It should help.

Br,
Carlos