Re: Newbie: Moving package to debian proper

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Author: Christian Marillat
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To: dmo-discussion
Subject: Re: Newbie: Moving package to debian proper
On 23 août 2018 16:27, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@???> wrote:

> Dear list,


Hi,

> I'm trying to package OpenCPN [1] for debian. Here, the wxsvg currently
> in deb-multimedia is a dependency which I  would like to move into Debian.
>
> Now, I guess I just could take the source package and submit it with
> small administrative changes. However, I really would like to take the
> opportunity to share these thoughts on this list. The questions are
> obvious: Are there any hidden problems here? What's the best process
> handling such issues? And, last but not least, what's your opinion about
> this?


wxsvg has been packaged in debian but removed (I don't know why) :

,----
| $ rmadison wxsvg   
| wxsvg      | 2:1.1.8~dfsg0-2 | oldoldstable       | source
| wxsvg      | 2:1.4~dfsg-2    | oldstable          | source
| wxsvg      | 2:1.4~dfsg-2    | oldstable-kfreebsd | source

`----

Christian