Re: Is there a team for packaging software written in C or general command line tools into debian?
Hi,
On 26/09/2025 07:06, Aryan Karamtoth wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently writing some software in C that I'd like to package into Debian once its stable enough. I've gone through the teams wiki [1] and I noticed that there isn't a team that maintains software written in C or command line tools in general.
I'm confused about which team i should choose to maintain my software with. For context its a minimal package manager for C.
This has been discussed a little bit on #debian-mentors yesterday and I was told that "software written in C or general command line tools" is a bit too generalised to fit into a X team.
I'd like some advise in this situation.
Can you tell us more about your software ?
What is its purpose ? Is it a scientific software ? a system administrative one ? an editorial one ? ...
Plus, I also need some advice on which debhelper to use for lintian and packaging since my software uses GNU make for building.
If you have a working autotools set up to build your software,
the packaging with debhelper tools should be straightforward
providing you follow linux/GNU traditional conventions.
Having said that, this webpage https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging might be a good start.
hth,
Jerome
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams
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