Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Heyho! > > On Sunday 04 April 2010 16.52:01 Magnus Pedersen wrote: > >> What is the proper way to wish for a program (kwooty) to be included in >> debian? >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kwooty/ > > There is no official way for it to get included, but there are several > ways to work on it. > > The easiest you have already done :-) > > The next bigger thing ;-) is file a "Request for Packaging" in our bug > tracking system. http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/howto/RFP.html talks > about how to file an RFP (although it speaks about perl modules > specifically, most of it does also apply for other programs. Just ignore > the per specific bits.) > > The problem with emails to lists and "RFP" bugs: it's absolutely not > guaranteed that somebody will be interested to work on it. > > Much better than the above, and certain to be successful: learn to do the > packaging yourself. If you can compile the program and are willing to > learn a bit, this is not very difficult to do, and there are many people > who will > be ready to help. (As somebody said recently on some Debian mailing list: > we don't bit ... much. My observation: when we -- Debian Developers -- > bite, we usually bite one another and not newcomers.)
I think I'll read up on this, if I fail miserably I'll try RFP (or perhaps paying somebody ;-) ) > > If you're intersted: here's some places to get started: > -> http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ > -> The #debian and #debian-devel IRC channels on irc.debian.org > -> The [email protected] mailing list. > -> stuff linked from http://www.debian.org/devel/ Thank You! > > The very technical documentation, probably not for beginners: > -> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ > -> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ > > NOTE: it is absolutely not necessary for you to become an official Debian > Developer or Maintainer if you just want to create this one package, but > obviously you're very welcome to do so (even if you only want to maintain > this one package.) > > And obviously, you could always pay somebody to create the package ;-) > > cheers > -- vbi > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
