Some questions about Debian developers

[<debian_noob@web.de>]

Dear Debian Developers,

I am very new to Debian and know I want to dive deeper into Debian.
For this I have some questions:

1) What kind of developing does a Debian developer? Are you developing the packages (*.deb files)?
I ask because I want to understand why this is so complicated. There are "apt"-scripts to create *.deb-files from source-packages (I mean *.tar or *tar.gz files). What are the hard parts of creating the deb-packages of new source-files why the Debian developers are working so long for a new version of the Debian stable release (3.1 or 4.0)?

2) Are you developing some fixes on the source files of the upstream-developers?
I ask because I want to understand what kind of fixes and customizations a developer have to write to make his applications Debian-compliant. I plan some development for scientific-calculations and this information would help me to write Debian-compliant software(I want to create Debain-packages so others can install my software without much difficulties).

3) What are the quality "specs" that define which package can get from testing to unstable to stable?


I already started reading the documents for Debian-developers but I couldn't find answers about my specific questions-yet.


Thank you for reading my mail.

Thanks for all who will answer my questions.

Your
debian_noob
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