Hello! First of all i want to thank you all for the great work you do every day to produce, enhance and maintain the greatest Linux dist (and even more than a dist!) ever made ;).
Since i use debian unstable for more than two years now, and since i really enjoy it (principally because of its quality and the debian social contract), i started to want to get more involved in the debian project and since i missed some applications, i decided to learn how to package. So i read all the good documentation, like the debian developer's reference, debian policy, the new maintainer guide, etc., and started to build my firsts packages, with the help of some more experienced than me and pretty nice developers, whose i met on IRC. I am currently writing this e mail, because i have found a software that i like very much; and I'd like to see it integrated in the debian packages. This application is call Kat and it's under the GPL license. It's a file indexer designed for KDE, which scans and indexes your documents (TXT,PDF,SXW,MP3,OGG,etc.) so you can after quickly find a file containing the given text. This software is not yet very stable, and it lacks some functionalities, but i use it yet everyday, for instance to check some informations in the huge debian documentation ;). Moreover, it's the kind of software which tends to be more and more useful. You can find the software homepage at: http://kat.sourceforge.net/ and you can see the debian packages i have done at: http://jr.falleri.free.fr/fichiers/debian/kat/ Moreover, i have yet a good contact with the upstream, and he has opened me an access to the project's cvs, and let me do the tarball, and listen to my feedback so that my patches will be integrated in the next release. So i created some packages for this software, trying to make them as clean as i could and I'm looking now for a sponsor who could help me to check and release them ;). I'd really like also to learn some packaging tips, to know what i am doing wrong and how can i improve my packaging skills, since i want one day, when I'll be strong enough to do that, apply to be a debian maintainer (since i really love packaging and i agree with the debian system, policies and social contract). So if you interested in sponsoring a new, but really volunteer, debian packager, please contact me :). Best regards. -- Jean-R�my Falleri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
