Grammostola Rosea wrote: > Fraser wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Grammostola Rosea wrote: >> >> >>> I suggest add a 'chapter' in the wiki of linuxaudio.org with >>> information about maintaining packages. The information about >>> Debian/Ubuntu you can find in my link. But I can imagine that also >>> other distro's like to write down some information about maintaining >>> multimedia packages, cause it would be nice if we could improve GNU/ >>> Linux audio by getting more packages into the different distro's. >>> >> >> A thought to consider - when I embarked upon creating debian and >> ubuntu packages of my own software, I found very little in the way of >> guides to assist a developer, the guides are focused on maintaining >> someone else's software (often already packaged). >> >> It can't hurt to educate developers on how to assemble packages for >> their own software, just making them aware of what's required will lead >> to reduced effort to package and the ones who chose to include the >> debian build files in the source shift the maintainer effort to quality >> control type role (hopefully fed back to the developer to include). >> >> >> > That's an good point. Did you see this documentation? > > http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/index.en.html#contents > > Maybe this? > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html > > As a package maintainer you can got help from mentors.debian.net and > that mailinglist. I think people can help you too. > > There are a lot developers who makes Ubuntu PPA repo's. IMO it would > be better if the package hit Debian and so also Ubuntu. It's better > then having PPA packages all over the place (I know it could be handy > to offer you last release). Maybe it's a good thing to discuss with > the Debian Multimedia Team if it is possible to get your package in > Debian/Ubuntu and how you can deliver packages which could be > implemented in Debian without much efforts. You know also the people > of MOTUMedia in Ubuntu are subscribed to the Debian Multimedia > mailinglist and they work closely together. > > Debian Multimedia Packages Maintainers > <pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > > AFAIK it's an open list, so send an message (and CC it to yourself). > Changed the title, cause it's an important discussion opened by Fraser imo.
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