making a Debian Live CD for managing GnuPG master key and smartcards
Daniel Pocock
daniel at pocock.pro
Tue Apr 26 17:31:56 CEST 2016
On 26/04/16 17:29, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro
> <mailto:daniel at pocock.pro>> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 26/04/16 15:40, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Robert J. Hansen <rjh at sixdemonbag.org <mailto:rjh at sixdemonbag.org>
> > <mailto:rjh at sixdemonbag.org <mailto:rjh at sixdemonbag.org>>> wrote:
> >
> > When asking other people to do things for you, it pays to keep in mind
> > how valuable the community has deemed your contributions. If you
> > haven't earned much reputation, you might want to do that before you go
> > about asking people to do things for you.
> >
> >
> > Thanks Robert, it does make sense. What you said is definitely true.
> > I have no power to force people to do something for me. But I have the right
> > to say what I think should be done (up to my understanding).
> > I cannot build a DEB package and I am not going to do that. But I can ask
> > other people to do it... if they can, if they wish, if they find it
> > reasonable,
> > if they find it useful, etc. It is up to them to make their decision...
> > which will
> > not affect me either way.
> >
>
> Yes, you can do that, in Debian you can file an RFP bug:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/RFP
>
> If other people are interested in your package they will discover the
> bug report and collaborate to make a package.
>
> You said you cannot build a package, well, Debian is 100% open and
> transparent, our full packaging documentation is online:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging
>
> and various references are at the bottom
>
> You don't have to be a Debian Developer, anybody on the Internet can
> register with https://mentors.debian.net and upload a package they
> created:
>
> http://mentors.debian.net/
>
>
> I don't want to do that. It doesn't seem reasonable to me.
Can you please tell me what you mean when you say "It doesn't seem
reasonable to me"?
Alternatively, what would be reasonable?
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