Hi, > it seems to me that I need to have some > of relationships with people at Debian, that have access. (?)
People without Debian rank need a sponsor who is Debian Developer. I was already in contact with DDs when i began my carreer as Uploader. But actually i found my sponsor here, on debian-user list. For the general case there is the mailing list [email protected] with its RFS bug posting protocol. See for an introduction http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers One will expect that you install a Debian Sid ("unstable") system in VM or on real iron and learn from https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751916 > to get the "pHash" re-included into the repositories? The first step would be to retrieve the old Debian packaging equipment and to get it to work with producing .deb packages on your Debian Sid system. E.g. from https://sources.debian.net/src/libphash/0.9.4-1.2/debian/ or from the links like https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/libp/libphash/control-0.9.4-1.2 in the "versioned links" section of https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libphash You will also have to counter the first two reasons from the removal bug report. (I.e. provide a new contemporary upstream version and your commitment to care for bugs and other external needs.) > And, second (to a lesser degree for now) start the ball rolling in getting > my application into the repositories? You will learn a lot on the way to get the first goal fulfilled. Hopefully this will enable you to found a new package. (I myself took over my existing upstream packages last year from its former maintainer. He handed mailing list and SVN repository to me. So i never had to start a package from scratch.) Have a nice day :) Thomas
