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  11 <h1>My debian sponsoring preferences</h1>
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  13 <p>I am willing to sponsor packages, but generally not willing to take
  14 over the maintenence.  I've got too many other things going on, so I
  15 would do a bad job if I tried to maintain more packages.
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  17 <p>When sponsoring, I prefer being approached by the package
  18 maintainer on IRC (pere on irc.debian.org and irc.oftc.net) with the
  19 URL to where the package can be downloaded.  This is a low-overhead
  20 solution to me, and I do not accumulate a large backlog of request for
  21 sponsoring (as would happen if I tried to gather sponsor request using
  22 email. :).
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  24 <p>The packages should be lintian clean and tested in pbuilder or
  25 similar, to make sure the dependencies are correct and obvious
  26 problems are found.  I primarily sponsor packages going into
  27 debian/main, so if the package isn't acceptable for main, there is
  28 normally no need to approach me.
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