Re: Is there a team for packaging software written in C or general command line tools into debian?

[Aryan Karamtoth]

On 26/09/25 11:51, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:

Hi,

Quoting Aryan Karamtoth (2025-09-26 07:06:36)

I'm confused about which team i should choose to maintain my software with.
For context its a minimal package manager for C.

which one? I think it would make sense to make your question more concrete
instead of asking about a hypothetical software.

In general, software written in C is present in most (all?) teams in Debian. In
contrast to many more modern languages, the creators of C did not create it in
conjunction with a package manager (and often even build system) for the
language, so I'd find it odd to install my C headers using a package manager
that is not the package manager of my distro.

If you'd want a team for your package manager, maybe try finding like-minded
people who are interested in that software and create a new team?

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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This is the software in question. It's still experimental and a hobby project of mine. I'd like to maintain it with a team to make it easier to get help with sponsorship but I couldn't find a specific team to fit my package into it. The package manager still needs a lot of work to make it usable for practical stuff. Again in general, i went through the teams list and found that there's no dedicated team for cmd line tools. I suppose a new one could be made but I'm thinking about it. If I do feel that there's a gap that could be filled in, I might proceed with it but I'll give it a really good thought.

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