Hello. I'm part of a small but very motivated development team in France aiming at improving debian accessibility for blind and visually-impaired users. I work with Jean-Philippe Mengual, Ksamak and Raphaël Poitevin -- I'm sure some people on the list already know us. Our work will be based on MATE and Compiz/Emerald. Rather than maintaining forks we want to actively contribute to debian and upstream.
Please forgive me for asking naïve questions; even if I'm a longtime GNU/Linux and debian user this is my first real experience with debian packaging. Feel free to redirect me to more appropriate resources or forums whenever needed. In an attempt to solve debian bug 760...@bugs.debian.org before Samuel Thibault's recent fix, and also to activate the screen reader in lightdm-gtk-greeter accessible, I had started with upstream code for lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter directly from Launchpad, using the bleeding-edge unreleased version. I see that Samuel backported some code related to screen-reader support in lightdm-gtk-greeter, (I suppose) in order for changes to be included in the next stable debian release without causing disruption; that's of course very reasonable, even if in the particular case of our local French team we could afford to provide unofficial debian packages in a private repository of ours as a temporary measure for our users, before our contributions get officially integrated, possibly in a later debian release. Up to this point I've been guilty of not interacting with the community. I'm starting now. What should I do in the future? In particular, what is the policy with respect to package versions included in debian, when the upstream version is considerably more recent than what debian already ships? Can (and should) we "skip" versions and proceed to package a software which is possibly several versions more recent than the one in debian sid? Best regards, -- Luca Saiu http://ageinghacker.net * GNU epsilon: http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon * Vaucanson: http://vaucanson-project.org * Marionnet: http://www.marionnet.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
