Hi, I’d like to help with Debian’s PulseAudio packaging on an ongoing basis, potentially as a co-maintainer if that would be useful to the team.
I work professionally with audio systems and have been getting more involved in Debian packaging. As a first concrete contribution, I tested the proposed JACK2 Build-Depends change in Bug #1143540 against the current PulseAudio Salsa packaging. I switched the build dependency from libjack-dev to libjack-jackd2-dev, verified dpkg-checkbuilddeps, and completed a full binary package build successfully on Debian 13 amd64 with JACK 1.9.22 detected and pulseaudio-module-jack produced. I’m happy to keep helping with bug triage, reproducing and testing fixes, preparing packaging changes/MRs, and audio-integration issues around JACK/ALSA/PipeWire. I can start with small, reviewable tasks and build trust from there. If the RFH is still current, I’d appreciate guidance on the most useful next package-maintenance work to pick up. Thanks, Thomas Stephens GitHub: https://github.com/tmsteph
