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New articles -------------------------- ** Posting Debian bug reports ** by JM - 16 December 2011 If you wish to report bugs to Debian directly because you’re encountering a problem and you know this is not a DDL-specific issue, the best thing to do is to report the bug to Debian too. Debian has several tools to do so, among those a dedicated application called reportbug. Of course you’ll have created a ticket in our project management software before :). Basic information The Debian website has a dedicated page for reporting bugs. Everything functions with emails: a bug report is a (...) -> http://www.doudoulinux.org/spip/english/contribute/developers/working-within-debian/article/posting-debian-bug-reports ** Splitting a Debian package ** by JM - 16 December 2011 Some applications are using tons of data files, which then leads to very large Debian packages that use a lot of disk space. We have identified two ways to reduce the required disk space: resampling files or removing some of them. The second alternatives supposes that we are able to split a package into small sub-packages. As we are about to see, this is not that complicated :). Get the source The first step of course is to fetch the source code of the package from Debian repositories. To (...) -> http://www.doudoulinux.org/spip/english/contribute/developers/working-within-debian/article/splitting-a-debian-package _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-docs mailing list Doudoulinux-docs@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-docs