> am i correct in saying that to be able to mantian a package or really > anything useful for debian that i need to at least be in the process of > appling to become a part of the community (become an appliciant)? > thankyou. -holland
If you want to maintain a package that will be part of the official archieve you need to become a maintainer, and probably you will want to do this eventually. However, there is nothing stopping you packing up whatever you have (make sure no one already has or is by checking if it exists and doing an intent to package post) and putting it on the web (with a disclaimer that it is not yet official, so debian proper bears no responsibility). This way you can learn the package system and get a package out to your braver users while you wait for a sponsor, nw authorization. Britton
