Hello Soren,
Am 04.12.24 um 19:18 schrieb Soren Stoutner:
Robert, I appreciate your addition to the discussion. On Wednesday, December 4, 2024 8:53:07 AM MST Robert Chéramy wrote:1) Documentation
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2. A vast amount of the step-by-step documentation written for beginners regarding how to package for the first time is subtly outdated in ways that become very confusing to beginners. Usually, at the time the documentation was written, it was correct. But things change quickly in Debian, and often nobody revisits and updates these howto guides.
I had the same problems as my start becoming a Maintainer.I started with an very small new package and tried to understand the steps I have to do. Then I started to write a Script to do the packaging in the same way every time.
then I did it with some more packages. Also the discussions "how can I start? etc. get me to write down all steps. And the script increases.
Also the description increases.You can find it at salsa.debian.org. it is work in progress. This is no additional documentation. It tries to collect the information from different documents, which exists. It describes, why it is necessary to do something.
My experience is. it is not easy to describe packaging for newcomer. Every newcomer has different questions and different problems with starting packaging.
So we should encourage everyone to ask and contact people in a team, in a local or language group or the persons who sign the key.
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