Re: Debian Organization

[David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:15:24PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> The only problem I see is that most people don't realize that in order
> to be part of Debian, you don't need to introduce a new package. I
> think we should make this more clear..

I think the New Maintainers' Guide is incredibly misleading in this
area.  Chapter 2, "First Steps", and Section 2.1, "Chose you program",
strongly suggest that the first thing you need to do as a Debian
developer is to package something new.



dave...