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Re: Kernel update



On Mi, 25 aug 10, 00:10:59, Simon Iremonger wrote:
> 
> Is the a good howto on how to become a debian packager
>    and maintain backports... etc...?

If you want to maintain backports you should:

- contact the maintainer of the "normal" package
  Even if the maintainer does not have an interest or enough time to 
  prepare a backport the help might be appreciated and he/she might be 
  willing to sponsor the package
- if the maintainer is not interested prepare the backported package and 
  look for a sponsor
- maintain the package for it's entire lifetime in the backports archive

I might be missing something, but I'm sure others will correct me ASAP 
:)

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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