Re: Getting Started
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<bss03@volumehost.net> wrote:
> So, I decided to stop talking about contributing to Debian and start
> *actually* contributing to Debian.
Excellent!
> acpi-support, so I looked it up on PTS and got started. Maybe this isn't
> the right way to start, but I'm more interested in bug squashing and
> maintenance for packages I use than anything else.
Some other ways to find packages you care about that need work:
RC bugs not yet fixed in testing: rc-alert -d T --exclude-dists UE
orphaned packages or help needed: wnpp-alert
manual pages that need writing: manpage-alert
> If I were to make a similar NMU, would it be best to do a single one that
> fixes both bugs, as well as other issue(s)?
Usually, yes. Please also read the developers-reference for NMU guidelines.
> antlr and mtr, e.g.). I think I can fix the issue with the lintian check,
> but don't have a patch yet. That means time to file a bug, right? In the
> meantime, should I simply ignore those lintian tags, or go ahead and
> update acpi-support with overrides or fixes? (I've already got patches
> for both those approaches.)
Yes, please file a bug on lintian and mention you are working on a patch.
In the meantime just ignore those lintian warnings since they are bogus.
> Once I get something together that needs sponsoring, is mentors.debian.net
> preferred hosting or would my own VPS be fine?
Either is fine, but once mentors.d.n switches to the new debexpo
interface, I'll personally be ignoring packages uploaded anywhere
else.
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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