Re: Contributing to Debian
[Warning: I'm a beginner myself.]
On Thursday 15 October 1998, at 19 h 44, the keyboard of Wayne Cuddy
<wayne@crb-web.com> wrote:
> would like to contribute to the debian distribution. I figure reading
> the packing/policy manual is a good place to get the rest of my info.
Yes. Unlike the various HOWTO or tutorials which are on Developer's Corner
which are all buggy and out of data (and unmaintained).
Another nice source of information are the source packages themselves. That's
the beauty of free software. Pay special attention to the '.diff.gz' file in a
source package: this is where all the Debian-specific stuff are. That's the
work of the packager.
> looking for this information? Do those pages explain uploading packages?
'man dupload' is the best source for me. (dupload is in the dupload package.)
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