Hi Damien, On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 10:09 PM Damien Calloway <damiencallo...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > Hello! > > I am an avid Pythonista and I was disappointed to learn that > > sudo apt install qtile > > No longer works. In my research, it appears that the qtile project relies on > packagers for each distribution - they do not do the packaging themselves. > > I see that the Debian package is abandoned for some time now, and I wanted to > know if: > > 1) Would I need to use the procedure for submitting a new package, since this > one has been stale for so long?
Yes. That and possibly a bit more, actually. There's a section about it in the Debian Developer's Reference [1]. > 2) Would I need to build for all the architectures that Debian supports? Yes. To be perfectly clear though: you don't have to build the binary package on all the architectures yourself; you have to make such builds possible from your source package. Debian's build infrastructure will build all the binary packages from that. > 3) Also, wanted to confirm that I would just need to ensure a reproducible > build with valid metadata for aptitude, then package and submit the results? You need a valid source package that conforms to Debian policy [2] and that someone is willing to sponsor [3]. There's a Q&A with more useful links on mentors.debian.net [4]. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#reintroducing-packages [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ [3] https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/ [4] https://mentors.debian.net/qa/ Regards, Robin
