[LAD] [LAU] Join the Debian Multimedia Team! (to improve the state of Linux audio)

Fraser fraser at arkhostings.com
Wed Apr 1 10:13:14 UTC 2009


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Grammostola Rosea wrote:

> I suggest add a 'chapter' in the wiki of linuxaudio.org with information 
> about maintaining packages. The information about Debian/Ubuntu you can 
> find in my link. But I can imagine that also other distro's like to 
> write down some information about maintaining multimedia packages, cause 
> it would be nice if we could improve GNU/ Linux audio by getting more 
> packages into the different distro's.

A thought to consider - when I embarked upon creating debian and ubuntu packages of my own software, I found very little in the way of
guides to assist a developer, the guides are focused on maintaining someone else's software (often already packaged).

It can't hurt to educate developers on how to assemble packages for their own software, just making them aware of what's required will lead
to reduced effort to package and the ones who chose to include the debian build files in the source shift the maintainer effort to quality
control type role (hopefully fed back to the developer to include).

regards,
Fraser



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