Thank you for the reply. I packaged gaphor which is a GNOME Circle app.
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gaphor Of course I sent another email with my primary email address ( [email protected]) to find a sponsor for it. On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 1:56 AM Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 3:12 PM masume dehghan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can I add my packages to the GNOME group so they get updated faster? > > Yes. Welcome! Thank you for helping to make Debian better! I have > added you to the Salsa team. I think that gives you enough permission > to move your projects with Settings > General > Transfer project. > > GNOME Core and GNOME Circle apps and libraries should be in the > regular Debian GNOME team, while other apps and libraries for GNOME > are handled in the Extras subteam. > > Please take time to read through https://wiki.debian.org/Gnome/Git . > In particular, we use a DEP-14 style layout with git-buildpackage. > That means the default branch is debian/latest and there is also an > upstream/latest branch. > > Converting the upstream branch is a little complicated. Basically it > requires first renaming upstream to a temporary branch and then > renaming the temporary branch to upstream/latest since git won't allow > branches named upstream & upstream/latest to exist simultaneously. > This also means that it is probably easiest for people who have a > local copy of these repos to just do a new git clone afterwards. Let > me know if you want me to rename the branches for you after the repos > are moved to the Debian GNOME team on Salsa. > > We also use the full upstream git history so there will be one extra > step when importing new upstream versions: git fetch --all (or > sometimes also git fetch --all --tags ) assuming you have the > upstreamvcs git remote. One way to get that remote is with gbp clone > --add-upstream-vcs when doing the initial git clone. > > Thank you, > Jeremy Bícha >
