On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:22:00 -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote > Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > > > I would love to help, but the fact is that people that know how to do > > these things like they know the palm of their hands, don't share > > information or actually show people how to do things. > > There is plenty of documentation about how to get started in > creating a Debian package. Perhaps it's hard to find? Two great > starting points are the Debian Mentors FAQ: > http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html and the > New Maintainer's Guide (in the maint-guide Debian package, available > in eleven languages).
Thanks for the info, I will look into it. > > The Debian Women project has created some documentation on their > wiki: http://women.alioth.debian.org/wiki/index.php/English/PackagingTutorial > (see also the other links under "Articles" in the sidebar) > > and they also have a mentoring program: > http://women.alioth.debian.org/mentoring/ > > > I don't even know what is the whole deal that is done when people > > move from gnome2.10 to gnome2.12. (I know is not only packaging and > > uploading) > > Do you ask this from the perspective of a packager, or a user? If > you are packaging Gnome applications you may want to subscribe to > the debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org list. However, Gnome-related software > that is not part of the core set of Gnome packages should continue to > build and work through the transition, since the Gnome people haven't > changed the API or ABI of their libraries in a long time. If you are > just using Gnome apps, everything should continue to Just Work (TM) - > - if not, file a bug. > > If instead your question is, "how did the Debian Gnome team update their > packaging to build Gnome 2.12 instead of Gnome 2.10?" -- this I don't > know. You'll have to ask them directly, or else apt-get the source and > see for yourself. But I don't understand why you need this information > (aside from curiosity) unless you are planning to join the Gnome team > yourself. Well, I could join any team that would actually need any help and that they could mentor someone on how to do the job. I said gnome because is one of the most normal things that constantly have to be moved from versions and versions... And I mean, how they really do it. I'm also part of debian-gtk ML and there isn't much activity (or i'm in the wrong one) Thanks for the info! .Alejandro > > best regards, > > -- > Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department > WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University > GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
