Hi Shawn! On 10/18/2013 05:54 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > Can someone give feadback as to anything that should be corrected in > this package or submit it upstream?
You might want to start with the "Debian New Maintainer' Guide" [1]. Basically, what you have to do first is getting to know how packaging in Debian works in general and what standards packages have to adhere to. For example, a package must have a proper Debian copyright file which lists the licenses of all program code components in the package. This is necessary to make it easy for everyone who uses and - more importantly - redistributes the package to know under what terms use and redistribution are possible. The copyright file has to list all copyright holders and account for possible different licenses for different code components (e.g., some code in your package might be GPL-2 while other parts might be covered by the MIT license). Furthermore, the package needs a proper control file which sets a package dependencies, its supported architectures, short and long description, section (for example, "sound"), distribution (main, contrib or non-free), maintainer name, homepage and so on. There are many other files which go into the debian directory depending on the type of package and there is probably more to say on that that I could fit into such an email. I recommend starting to read some documentation for newbies and trying to get your first proper package built. If you need feedback and help on that, you should resort to the mailing list and IRC channel of Debian Mentors. Cheers, Adrian > [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/526168f1.5040...@physik.fu-berlin.de
