Hello, > Please change the email address on this bug report from > send_only.aurin...@auroville.org.in to b...@charlesmatkinson.org
See controlling the Debian BTS [1]. > I tried hard to make a source .deb but did not manage to do so. > Would you like me to share the system I use to create the .deb? Please see the new maintainers guide [2]. The long and short of it is: Debian manages thousands of software packages and provides a huge amount of freedom to maintainers in how they do so. However, your package MUST build from a single call to debian/rules (see [3], /FTBFSIASW/). This baseline level of uniformity allows Debian to support many architectures and provide support for the full duration of a Debian release. > bung was not a Debian package so I thought the appropriate place > to install it was under /opt. If it becomes a Debian package > then it should be installed in the conventional places. Since you are submitting a package to be included in Debian, it will not be accepted unless it is packaged in a way that is suitable for Debian---all the files should be placed in accordance with the Debian FHS (see [4] and [5]). Once you do this, be sure to use lintian---I suggest at least looking at the "pedantic" results: lintian --verbose -L ">=pedantic" $changes_file Sponsors are more likely to look at a lintian-clean package. Best, Antonio [1] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#submitter [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ [3] https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html [4] https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard [5] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html
