[zeromq-dev] Leaving my role as maintainer

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Martin Lucina <mato at kotelna.sk> wrote:

> Not sure what you mean by "update". As it stands that packaging is
> maintained externally as part of the official Debian package.
>
> What would need to be done is replace the current stuff in Git with the
> official packaging, but modified slightly to be usable for a "build me a
> snapshot package of this particular Git checkout" type workflow. Is that
> what you want? Will anyone actually use this?

I guess the larger question is where will the Debian packaging be
maintained. If it's not in the 0MQ distribution, that directory should
be deleted. Otherwise, it should be reflect the current (real) Debian
packaging, just so that future contributors know where to find it.

> Then there's the option of actually distributing DEBs from zeromq.org, but
> I don't really want to get into that ...

No-one wants that IMO. People have used the debian packaging to make
debs for private distribution, e.g. for networks where software may
only be installed as debs.

-Pieter