On 5/28/19 9:48 AM, Thomas Dettbarn wrote: > Hello. > > > This is slightly off-topic, and I have not been on this mailinglist > since this thread started. Nevertheless, I would like to express my > support for changing the packaging practices. > > Over the last two weeks, I tried creating ports and packages for my > project "dMagnetic". It was rather easy for the OpenBSD and FreeBSD > ports system. All that was needed there were some changes to some > existing files, and my port was ready. FreeBSD was the easiest: > Sourcecode URL, SHA256 sum and a short description was all that was > needed. Now it is already part of the offical ports collection. > > Debian was quite more complicated, and the documentation on that > topic was scattered all over the interwebs. Here I had to download > the sources, rename the directories, rename the package, repackage, > change some files, count the number of spaces at the beginning of a > line... I did it, but it is rather frustrating for new developers. > > Please please help them! :) > > > Thomas Dettbarn >
This thread reminded me the Debian User Repository thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/04/msg00064.html Such a repository can be a "easy" packaging zone, possibly attracting more contributing people. Eventually some people will try to improve the packages and get them into official Debian.
