On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Beco <r...@beco.cc> wrote: > I'm newbie in the world of packaging, documenting, and so on... so > some patient would be welcome. Also, and that is important to me, I > would like very much to discuss pieces of my C code with a mentor who > 'speaks' this language, to get tips on deprecated things, standards, > directories of installation, and alike. > You would probably get more help if you also ask on the debian-mentor mailinglist. Make sure you read as much as you can before asking for assistance, such as the Debian Policy [1] and the New Maintainers' Guide [2]. It would also help if you download the Debian source for a simple package that you can study. This way you can familiarize yourself with what it takes for a package to get into Debian, such as the format of debian/control, debian/rules, changelog, etc.
If this is already too much information for you, I would suggest that you don't try to create a new package just yet. Instead, download an existing package, modify it, and try to compile it. Perhaps look through the Debian bug tracker [3] and try to submit some patches (e.g. documentation, translations) before taking on full responsibility as maintainer. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ [3] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ Regards, Vincent Chen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFuqiEY0M4hyvvsUQrpqqM=pvtebed7_buc4tk_0fyj_tmr...@mail.gmail.com
