Dear Mentors :)
I'm thinking about helping Debian and assume the maintainace of a package... I generally try to help out the ppl that give me the software - I do this with the FSF and now with Debian; I'm not really a programmer (what I know was self-taught since I'm taking History) but I get my way around most Unix systems and even do a bit of sysadmin job here and there. Having said that, I would like to know if extensive use of a package is a requirement for maintaining the deb (e.g. the gprolog maintainer uses gprolog extensively) or one can do a good job by mastering the debian packaging tools, submission process, etc? I ask this because I've looked at the orphan packages and, er, I can't really say I use them to a great extent... but I would still like to help... I have red the manuals and even done some experimenting and I can now understand the packagind process and issues per se. Well, that's it, thanks you all in advance. best regards, Frederico Muñoz -- Frederico S. Muñoz GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian http://www.debian.org http://sdf.lonestar.org - SDF Public Access Unix Systems
