Dear Debian Developers, I am very new to Debian and know I want to dive deeper into Debian. For this I have some questions:
1) What kind of developing does a Debian developer? Are you developing the packages (*.deb files)? I ask because I want to understand why this is so complicated. There are "apt"-scripts to create *.deb-files from source-packages (I mean *.tar or *tar.gz files). What are the hard parts of creating the deb-packages of new source-files why the Debian developers are working so long for a new version of the Debian stable release (3.1 or 4.0)? 2) Are you developing some fixes on the source files of the upstream-developers? I ask because I want to understand what kind of fixes and customizations a developer have to write to make his applications Debian-compliant. I plan some development for scientific-calculations and this information would help me to write Debian-compliant software(I want to create Debain-packages so others can install my software without much difficulties). 3) What are the quality "specs" that define which package can get from testing to unstable to stable? I already started reading the documents for Debian-developers but I couldn't find answers about my specific questions-yet. Thank you for reading my mail. Thanks for all who will answer my questions. Your debian_noob ______________________________________________________________________________ UNICEF bittet um Spenden fur die Kinder im Irak! Hier online an UNICEF spenden: https://spenden.web.de/unicef/special/?mc=021101
