Maintaining a Package as a Non-Software Developer

Hello Debian Mentors, I am a sysadmin who manages dozens of Debian servers. I also use Debian for my personal computing. I am very thankful to the Debian project and would love to give back to it somehow. I was thinking that maintaining one or more packages would be a great way to do this. I k

Bug#1062001: RFS: trader/7.20-1 -- simple game of interstellar trading

Control: retitle -1 trader/7.20-2 -- simple game of interstellar trading Control: tags -1 - moreinfo Dear Tobias, Thank you very much for your feedback on my RFS for Star Traders, and apologies for not replying sooner -- it's been a bit of a crazy week around here... You (or anyone else) can see

Bug#1064934: RFS: nanomsg/1.2.1+dfsg-1 -- nanomsg utilities

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nanomsg": * Package name : nanomsg Version : 1.2.1+dfsg-1 Upstream contact : Martin Sústrik * URL : https://nanomsg.org/ * License : Expat * Vcs

Bug#1064924: RFS: python-chameleon/4.5.2-1 [ITA] -- XML-based template compiler - doc

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "python-chameleon":  * Package name : python-chameleon    Version  : 4.5.2-1    Upstream contact : Malthe Borch  * URL  : https://github.com/malthe/chameleon  * Licens

Bug#1061778: RFS: vhba-module/20240202-1 [ITP] -- VHBA virtual host bus adapter module

Updated with the new upstream release: 20240202. https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vhba-module/vhba-module_20240202-1.dsc -- Matteo Bini

Bug#1064572: RFS: lighttpd/1.4.74-1 / usrmerge

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 08:47:22AM +0100, Alexandre Detiste wrote: > 9e6532694efb91a5da9d39acee0c9a6ce43eb180 > > Hi, > > I uploaded 1.4.74-1 but I noticed just now > that this would create a UsrMerge regression. > > If the .timer & .service are correctly named (too early in the morning > for me

Bug#1059503: RFS: blanket/0.6.0-1 [RFP] -- listen to relaxing sounds

The best solution is here to add the train sound under a slightly different name then and patch the source accordingly. Ok. I did change the name and the new version is up in salsa and mentors. -- Danial Behzadi در دوشنبه, فوریه 26 2024 at ۲۳:۰۸:۵۸ +01:00:00, Matthias Geiger نوشته بود: On M

Bug#1064884: RFS: urlwatch/2.28-2 [RC] -- monitors webpages for you

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "urlwatch", to close a FTBFS bug: * Package name : urlwatch Version : 2.28-2 Upstream contact : Thomas Perl * URL : https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/ * Licens

Bug#1064380: Aw: Re: Bug#1064380: RFS: jpeginfo/1.7.1-1 [Team] -- Prints information and tests integrity of JPEG/JFIF files

> The string " $Id: hash $" in "jpeginfo.h" file is almost not change in > upstream. > Even this string changed in upstream, it will not affect do deb package. "almost no change" is a change and dpkg-source will not create a source package for me. How are you able to create one from the released