Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)
On 2004-03-09 Luca Pasquali <keta@email.it> wrote:
[...]
> and now a strange, dumb-sounding request:
> if you mentors have better/more useful "packaging exercises" to
> suggest me, I'll welcome the advices, it may be a strange request but
> I'm not a programmer, I mainly use console to do network
> administration, I'm lost in WNPP search something to package that will
> of use for myself without great results.
If you are trying to be helpful take the list of packages you actually
have installed and use and check their bug-reports, you have good
chances of finding one or the other which is in need of attention, be
it patches, or just testing and verifying bug-reports. This will not
teach you how to package something from scratch (but imho this is not
too difficult for the normal autotool thingy anyways).
Co-maintainership or adoption can follow.
> Is this a bad approach to debian maintainig? I mean dealing with
> packages you don't use.
[...]
There are two problems with that:
- Motivation. I am much more inclined to invest time and effort in
maintaining a package I really use because I immediately benefit
from it and suffer from its deficencies.
- Quality of the result. If you do not use the package regularily you
might not know how to test it and won't stumble upon well hidden bugs
yourself.
cu andreas
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