On 02-Feb-2001 William Burrow wrote: > I have decided to rescue one of the orphaned packages slated for removal > from Debian. I wonder if anyone can lend me a hand getting started. > The New Maintainers' doc and Debian Developers' docs have been helpful, > but I have more questions. e.g. Does my gpg key need to be signed (I > live in the sticks, so to speak, probably not too many Debian developers > around here), how do I get the 3.0 standards package to do all the things > the older 2.6.x.x package did, etc. >
To upload a package into Debian, you have to go thru the NM queue. There are ways to do this without a developer signed key -- but this is more difficult and time consuming. If you own a vehicle and are willing to drive 2 or 3 hours, I would be suprised if you could not find a debian developer willing to do the same. In the debian policy docs is an upgrade checklist. Follow that to bring old packages up-to-date.
