Hi! On 2003-10-24 13:11 -0400, Alexander Winston wrote: > Hi, I came across <URI:http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html> yesterday and > am interested in helping in any way that I can, but I am not a Debian > developer and could not find any directions to follow in the > documentation related to fixing bugs in orphaned packages.
If you just want to fix bugs, then you actually don't need to care about the current maintainer of a package. Just send a patch to the relevant bug in the BTS (Bug Tracking System) and tag it with 'patch'. > If anyone could point me to the relevant section in the > documentation that I overlooked or can tell me how I can assist, I > would be much obliged. Thank you. There are two ways to go beyond submitting patches: You can prepare a Non-Maintainer-Upload (NMU), see Developer's Reference [1] 5.11. If you like the package and use it yourself, you might also want to become the official maintainer of it (see Developer's Reference 5.9.5). You need a sponsor (i. e. an official Debian Developer) to do this (see Developer's Reference 2.3). Have a nice day! Martin [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ -- Martin Pitt home: www.piware.de eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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