Hi, Fabio. Yes, it's true... I haven't been involved with Debian, but
I'm trying to change that.
I have plenty of Debian/Linux experience (15+ years) and I am familiar
with git, but I have no direct experience with Debian packaging. I
certainly understand not wanting to bring on someone with no previous
experience.
It would probably be better for me to start with bug triage and testing.
The reason I decided to reply to your request for help was because of
this paragraph:
It would be helpful to have help even with just some areas, such as
bugreports or some packages.
*For example, the Mint icons and themes packages, which I had
started but then got stuck due to possible copyright and trademark
issues with the icons, which could take a long time.*
Some users also request the packaging of additional nemo extensions. If
someone can maintain them, we could consider adding more.
Helping with the icon issues sounds like somewhere I could start and
then we could move on from there.
Thanks,
Cliff
On 9/26/2025 5:33 AM, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
Thanks Cliff for your reply.
From what I see, you have no experience in Debian packaging (or at
least I haven't found any contributions from you).
I wrote a wiki page to explain a bit about the procedure used by the
Cinnamon team, although it requires a minimum of experience in some
things and I don't know if I would have time to teach.
If you want to take a look: https://wiki.debian.org/Cinnamon/Packaging
There is not only the packaging part, there could also be bug triage
and testing, for example.
Is there anything specific you'd like to help with? Or something you'd
like to try and get started with?
