Re: Looking to contribute

[Thomas Cordeu <tcordeu@gmail.com>]

El 11 ene. 2018, a la(s) 20:33, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> escribió:

> Hello,
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 11 2018, tomas cordeu wrote:
>> 
>> 2) Is the guide “New Mantainers Guide” enough to get a grasp of
>> packaging?
> 
> It is rather out-of-date, unfortunately.  I haven't looked for a while,
> but it might mislead you more than it helps you, so if you are able to
> learn from other sources, I would avoid it.
> 
> I recommend grabbing an Emacs addon, running dh-make-elpa to generate
> packaging, and then trying to figure out what each file in debian/ does.
> With reference to the Debian Policy Manual.
> 
> -- 
> Sean Whitton

Thanks for the responses. I will try to package “alect-themes” which is a package needed for Spacemacs.

Thank you,
Thomas.