Shane's kernels

[Samuel Thibault]

Daniel Dalton, le Wed 16 Jul 2008 18:02:17 +1000, a écrit :
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:49:09PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Daniel Dalton, le Wed 16 Jul 2008 08:15:11 +1000, a écrit :
> > > I mentioned speechd-up inclution in debian there... and got no
> > > replies...
> > 
> > ?! I did reply.
> 
> It didn't come through, sorry, would you mind re-sending your message?

http://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2008/07/msg00001.html

> > > So I guess that means my idea was rejected...
> > 
> > Nope.  As I said, it's mostly a lack of time.  Mario asked several time
> > for help maintaining the plethora of packages that he maintains, and got
> > no answer, _that_ is the problem.
> 
> I would be happy to help, where is a howto on creating deb packages the
> debian way that will be accepted?

There's plenty of doc on http://www.debian.org/devel/

> > lack of people getting involved in actually doing
> > things.
> 
> I am happy to help out, not much programming experience, but happy to
> learn, and hoping to start a bit of programming...

Well, for the packaging itself one usually doesn't need to program, just
have to know make and learn the debian policies etc.  For long-term
maintaining, programming skills help to fix bugs...

Samuel