Re: New maintainer checklist
* Ben Finney [Mon, 09 May 2005 14:33:27 +1000]:
> What else should I be doing before I embark on getting a package
> ready? Does an overall checklist like the above already exist, that I
> should be following?
IME, reading bits from d-devel-changes [1] will teach you things you
won't learn elsewhere. It's a bit difficult to explain, but I know
that reading those changelogs and some of the referenced bugs (those
that drew my attention) has provided me valuable knowledge of how
other maintainers work, which has then helped to improve myself as a
maintainer. I can imagine it's not an activity that will be
interesting for everybody, but should help if you're really interested
in becoming a proficient maintainer. (And note how I used the word
maintainer thrice, and packager none.)
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes
As the traffic is obviously too high, I've always had a procmail rule
in place that discards uploads of non-installed packages (unless
explicitly monitored), so it's basically the same than having
apt-listchanges installed.
HTH, never mind if it doesn't. ;-)
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not to crash
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