Re: help with packaging
[Please in general do not do private discussion and specifically not while
I'm in this high work hackathon state. We are an open team and thus I'm
forwarding my answer to the public list.]
Hi again,
On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 04:32:38PM +0500, bdr.chachar wrote:
>
> with the little knowledge i gathered about packaging, i couldn't link the
> dots to carry out a package till end or even where to start from.
sorry for not beeing precise enough in my advise.
>
> i think i need some one to mentor me once through the life-cycle of a
> package.
I'd like to do this - provided the package is relevant for the Debian
Med project and specifically for Covid-19 currently.
> i read that i can work someone who's willing to orphan a package or
> i can work under someone's mentor-ship for a package that's not in Debian
> repository. https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#howto-o
Well, you can also join a packaging team - that's what we are talking
about here.
> these are few packages that caught my eye and they are for adaption but info
> is too old.
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=893999
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=808074
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864795
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732647
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=941081
>
>
> or i wish to bring https://luakit.github.io/ package to debian repo.
I have not checked all orphaned bugs but the ones I checked and the last
link are pretty generic packages with no obvious connection to the
Debian Med project. I don't say that they are no valuable targets.
They might serve Debian users in general and might deserve some care.
But you need to find someone else as a mentor if you want to work on
these since I'm dealing with mentoring currently at least five people
and have my fingers in more than 1000 packages. I need to restrict my
concentration onto these.
> i will look forward to your guidance.
May be you have another look on packages that are needed by our team:
https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/COVID-19-Hackathon-packages-needing-work
Or if you simply want to work on some open bug in our team
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org
Feel free to contact us via IRC at #debian-med for more speedy
conversation if you have more questions.
Kind regards
Andreas.
> On 4/6/20 10:13 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi Badar,
> >
> > thanks a lot for your interest in Debian Med. Its really great how many
> > people are joining and helping currently.
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 05:50:54PM +0500, bdr.chachar wrote:
> > > i have been using debian for some years, currently buster. i am interested
> > > to help this team with packaging. i have old dell laptop with 3gb ram, is it
> > > okay for the task?
> > As always: It depends. :-) You can just give it a try.
> >
> > > i have also learned to build a deb from source, whatelse
> > > do i need to learn for this task.
> > May be it is helpful if you read the Debian Med policy[1].
> >
> > Than we have a list of packages that are waiting for packaging[2].
> >
> > Please do *NOT* pick R-packages for *manual* packaging. Thats
> > works nearly fully automated in r-pkg team. So if you know what
> > to do properly its fine - but manual packaging is a waste of
> > time.
> >
> > > PS: its my first time to contribute to opensource so kindly help me crawl.
> > Let us know here if you need further help
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> >
> > [1] https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy/
> > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/COVID-19-Hackathon-packages-needing-work
> >
>
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