Hello Antti, Am 18.12.2015 um 23:10 schrieb Antti Jarvinen: > Dear debian gaming Sirs, > > I've tried to modify recently released nethack to suit the non-trivial > packaking needs of debian. My attempt might be a starting point for > someone more knowledgeable. [...] Thanks for your interest in upgrading the Nethack package. > > If I could make myself useful in gaming team, I could devote some > amount of my spare time for work in that area ; I'm trying to get > started in getting involved with debian organization but starting real > work is a bit difficult. Any good suggestions are welcome. > There are a lot of different opportunities to get involved with Debian and games. On this page you can find some suggestions: https://wiki.debian.org/Games/Development Updating packages is much appreciated since we maintain more than 400 source packages alone and there is always something that could be improved. https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org You can help us the most by learning to create an official and Policy compliant package. It requires some effort in the beginning because you have to read some manuals and guides but it pays off later. I would suggest to package the newer upstream release of Nethack but you should do it the Debian way. The less time others have to invest in reviewing your work the better. An important step in becoming a Debian maintainer or packager is to create a real Debian package and to make your package available on official Debian sites. mentors.debian.net is a great resource for learning that: http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers Of course you could also help us by rebasing the existing Nethack patches or to triage bug reports. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=nethack Just check out if those bug reports are still valid with the latest version of Nethack, send your comments to the bug tracker. Create patches if necessary or forward valid bug reports to the upstream developers. Regards, Markus
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