Wen-Yen Chuang <caleb@calno.com> writes: > I am new at deb packaging. I think Neil's guidelines [1] is good and > reasonable. > I am not an DD nor an DM. I have not start my NM process yet. > I am not an experienced programer. I only know a little C and shell > programing. > > Neil's guidelines is clear, simple, and helps new maintainers to keep > their packages good. I have found Neil's guidelines invaluable ever since I've been packaging, even though Neil and I have never even discussed the possibility of him becoming my sponsor. I'm glad to see them clearly laid out online and, even better, updated From time to time as his personal sponsoring policies adapt. > I do know some Debian official packages maintained by some DDs would > fail to meet Neil's guidelines. Note that not everything in Neil's guidelines are appropriate to *every* package. Rather, it's best to see them as a coherent set of questions to *have good answers to*, for every package that one prepares. Neil's guidelines, and other similar checklists by other sponsors, are very helpful to prompt me to think about my package from a critical perspective, which is very difficult to achieve in isolation. -- \ “Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.” —Groucho Marx | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney
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