On 9 Oct 2000, Frederico S. Muñoz wrote: > 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?
It's no requirement, but it helps a lot. Expect to get bug reports from people who have been using that software for some time, they might assume some familiarity with it on your side. Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: A319 A60F 20F6 C8A4 3C86 54B4 99CD AC6E 79D1 B1E7 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!

