Re: making debian packages

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

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> I've made my own deb file with polonisation stuff for tetex. I know that
> other people may want to use it so i think about putting it in contrib
> directory. 

Why in the contrib directory? Why don't you want to become a maintainer?

Only if you don't want to maintain (correct bugs found) the package
afterwards, it should be put in non free (there are other cases, but
I don't think they apply here). Generally, Debian isn't too keen
on "non-maintained" packages, as they will probably have to be removed
in the future (when we use different libs etc), and will only result
in user-irritation in the long run.

How to become a maintainer: see

http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-policy/

more specifically:

http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-policy/archive/debian-policy-2.1.3.3/ch-developer.html#s6.1



-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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