-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 15/04/2011 10:17, Etienne Millon wrote: > > Hello, > > As a gtkpod user for a few years, I'm interested to help too. I can > help you in this task if you wish.
Thanks a lot. I guess I'll really need your help in the future ;-) > The New Maintainer guide is a nice start, be sure not to forget the > developer's reference, which is also a nice read (the policy is more a > standards document than a packaging how-to). The wiki has also very > nice "tutorials". OK, that's right. I'll take a look over that, indeed. > You can start by unpacking a source package as produced by "apt-get > source". Try building it by hand (with debian/rules), with a helper > (such as dpkg-buildpackage) and in a chroot (I prefer cowbuilder which > is built on top of pbuilder). Perfect. > However, modern packaging involves version control systems. As you may > have seen, gtkpod uses svn-buildpackage. Try to build the package from > it, and maybe to commit a patch for a bug ? (hint : I've submitted a > patch for #598778, I believe it's easy to fix :-) ). OK :-) > Cheers Cheers. mfv -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAk2oC0oACgkQ1t4DH5kfnS2YHQCgvLJx48kt/cgHVyTeh6zpz/N8 M8UAoJQzPKM942HLweKvxe9t7Vp/oM38 =Rltv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' risultato non infetto. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
