[maemo-developers] Maintenance of ported apps

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Feb 1, 2010, at 18:05, Pavel Rojtberg wrote:

> Am 01.02.2010 17:43, schrieb Bernd Stramm:
>> This area is sort of problematic in many respects. Hijacking someone's package can suppress good work and good people. And it is quite disrespectful.
> what do you mean by Hijacking? Isnt this exactly the place when the package license comes in play?

Remember that you have to upload your package to the repositories in debian, and even if the license is okay, you have to make it past the ftpmasters. They frown on NMUs and hijacked packages in certain circumstances. The best thing to do is to solve problems between packagers _before_ the package hits the repos.

Jeremiah