interesting.. so then can help when i refers some patched or packport from a personal repository?
i have a repository for squeeze with a lot of backports (many with patcheds backported from wheeze and jeese) Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO) http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com 2015-05-30 10:16 GMT-04:30 Mike Gabriel <[email protected]>: > Hi Piccoro, > > On Mi 27 Mai 2015 15:39:47 CEST, PICCORO McKAY Lenz wrote: > > so then now the lts updates will be until? if the long time of the lts >> packages depends on collaboration, how i can participe without much >> reading >> long manuals? the actual workflow manual of the debian lts are huge if we >> need to understand the new package mantainer manuals, we have job and >> familly also to pay attention.. >> > > Getting involved with LTS indeed requires a bit of reading and quite a > portion of knowledge of the Debian security and LTS workflow. > > In case you this or that computer language, there is a crucial point where > you can help without reading all the Debian docs that much: One big effort > in LTS maintenance is backporting patches (which mostly are taken from > fresh upstream Vcs commits) to the old upstream code versions as found in > LTS (squeeze-lts, soon wheezy-lts, etc.). > > Those patches can be provided via the Debian bug tracker. Once a patch is > available (and works) all LTS formalisms (that requires reading the Debian > specific manuals) can be handled by the LTS team just fine. If you want to > get deeper involved in Debian packaging, I'd suggest starting to work with > other DDs or DMs on packages in Debian testing/unstable first (which is my > personal opinion of a good entry point). > > [And: I also have family and kids and all that, but it did not prevent me > from reading all those manuals (I became a DD in 2012, current age is 41). > Actually, I am quite thankful that the Debian project is so well > documented, because asking all the relevant questions would be more time > consuming than reading good documentation.] > > Greets, > Mike > -- > > DAS-NETZWERKTEAM > mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby > fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 > > GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 > mail: [email protected], http://das-netzwerkteam.de > > freeBusy: > > https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb >
