Re: Is there a team for packaging software written in C or general command line tools into debian?

[Aryan Karamtoth <spaciouscoder78@disroot.org>]

On 26/09/25 11:46, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> 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
my software is named covers. It's an experimental software of mine thats 
a package/library manager for C. I'm writing it to get better at C but I 
thought it'd also be good for practical use if I develop it further.

https://codeberg.org/covers/covers

It's currently barebones at the moment (v0.1.0 was written in a week) 
and I'd like to get it to a much more usable state before distributing 
it on debian. I hope to do this before forky's freeze but I don't know 
if I can finish it in the intended time.

It's a CLI tool so I thought there's some team where I could discuss and 
get help with the packaging once I develop it further.

As of v0.1.0 covers only uses GNU Make and C. I like to keep it this way 
as much as I can.


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Aryan Karamtoth
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