* Package name : devotee Version : 0.1patch2 Upstream Author : Manoj Srivastava <srivastava@debian.org> * URL : http://www.debian.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.) Description : Debian voting system Devotee is the debian voting system, used when offical matters are called to a vote. It intergrates with LDAP, and GPG, and isolates each voting task into a seperate program to ensure votes are not lost due to an error in devotee.
Hrm? I don't think you downloaded devotee from www.debian.org...
I was under the imprssion that the URL field is the location of the upstream site; since devotee is part of the Debian project, I put the URL as http://debian.org. The page where I downloaded the source then goes into the copyright file. If I'm mistaken, please tell me now so I can correct the control and copyright files locally. Micheal
Hi, looking at the fact that other people might want to check the source or the project you are filing an ITP for I think this is a rather strange rationale. Kind regards Nico
I've since made the correction in my local package. Here's the source URL for future reference: http://arch.debian.org/arch/private/srivasta/archive-lenny/devotee--devel--0.1/ Michael
It isn't. It's written by a Debian developer and used by Debian, but you won't find any information about it on www.debian.org and it's not released by Debian (though the code is hosted using Debian resources). The download page is what should go in the copyright file, yes. But "www.debian.org" isn't really suitable as either a homepage URL or a download URL for devotee; www.debian.org is not a homepage for the *devotee* project. And historically, we didn't have Homepage fields in debian/control anyway; the "URL" field in the ITP template is meant to give people a way to get at the original sources.
retitle 470995 RFP: devotee -- Debian voting system noowner 470995 thanks Hi, This is an automatic email to change the status of devotee back from ITP (Intent to Package) to RFP (Request for Package), because this bug hasn't seen any activity during the last 18 months. If you are still interested in adopting devotee, please send a mail to <control@bugs.debian.org> with: retitle 470995 ITP: devotee -- Debian voting system owner 470995 ! thanks However, it is not recommended to keep ITP for a long time without acting on the package, as it might cause other prospective maintainers to refrain from packaging that software. It is also a good idea to document your progress on this ITP from time to time, by mailing <470995@bugs.debian.org>. Thank you for your interest in Debian,
So uh... That arch.debian.org link doesn't work anymore. In this election period, it seems to me quite important to be able to review the source code running the said elections... Thanks, A.
Answering my own question: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/srivasta/debian/devotee.git;a=summary git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/users/srivasta/debian/devotee.git This also requires the submodule: anarcat@marcos:devotee$ git submodule update --init Submodule 'debian' (git://git.debian.org/~srivasta/debian/debian-dir.git) registered for path 'debian' [...] And that itself features another freaking layer of submodule: anarcat@marcos:debian$ git submodule update --init Submodule 'common' (git://git.debian.org/~srivasta/debian/debian-common.git) registered for path 'common' Cloning into 'common'... I think it should be considered to untangle this mess before uploading this. In care any one of those repos disappear, I have made local checkouts here. A.
4 years later, still no debian package... a little embarrassing! It looks like the source is here now: https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/devotee.git/ A.
retitle 470995 ITP: devotee -- Debian voting system owner 470995 ! thanks I'll take a crack at this. I'm in pretty frequent contact with Manoj on Facebook, though we're more often arguing about U.S. politics than anything to do with Debian or software engineering in general. He'll be well-situated to laugh at my frustrations with Perl.