+ <p>
+Assuming no one else is already working on your prospective package,
+you must then submit a short bug (<ref id="submit-bug">) against the
+pseudo package <tt>wnpp</tt> and send a copy to &email-debian-devel;
+describing your plan to create a new package, including, but not
+limiting yourself to, a description of the package, the license of the
+prospective package and the current URL where it can be downloaded
+from. You should set the subject of the bug to ``ITP: <var>foo</var>
+-- <var>short description</var>'', substituting the name of the new
+package for <var>foo</var>. The severity of the bug report must be
+set to <em>normal</em>. Please include a <tt>Closes:
+bug#<var>nnnnn</var></tt> entry on the changelog of the new package in
+order for the bug report to be automatically closed once the new
+package is installed on the archive (<ref id="upload-bugfix">).
+ <p>
+There are a number of reasons why we ask maintainers to announce their
+intentions: