[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#693492: litecoin packaging effort join with bitcoin effort?

[Dmitry Smirnov]

Hi Scott,

On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 08:17:00 Scott Howard wrote:
> I've been working with the bitcoin packagers in debian to improve the
> status of bitcoin related packages (bitcoin, namecoin, litecoin, etc.)
> in Debian along with Jonas Smedegaard and Mican Anderson. Would you be
> interested in maintaining litecoin under the pkg-bitcoin-devel
> umbrella?

Of course, thank you for inviting me. I welcome team maintenance and I hope we 
will have a productive cooperation.


> 
> If so, you can apply for membership on Alioth (the same way you did
> collab-maint).

Done, thank you for granting my membership so fast.


> Then move the repo from collab-maint/ to pkg-bitcoin/,

Sure, I'll do that soon but I'd like to keep its current "flat" layout without 
merging with upstream files please.

Shall I also create repositories for some other packages, such as "cgminer" 
and "cpuminer"?


> change the maintainer to Debian Bitcoin Packaging Team
> <pkg-bitcoin-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>, and list yourself as the
> "uploader" 

Of course, I'll do that as soon as I move the repository.


> and subscribe to pkg-bitcoin-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org

Already done, thanks.


> I can sponsor it for you either way, I think it's a good idea if we
> all maintain together since the packages and technology are so
> similar.

Thank you very much for your kind sponsorship offer. Much appreciated.


> It will still be your package and primary responsibility, but
> it will put you in touch with at least three potential sponsors
> whenever you want to upload a package.

I'm not too concerned about sponsorship at the moment.

Lately I prepared some packaging improvements for bitcoin [1] and with Jonas 
we were discussing how to merge our efforts but unfortunately there were 
little progress due to lack of time on both sides.

All the best,
Dmitry.

[1]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/onlyjob-guest/bitcoin.git