new maintainer was (Re: building my own .debs)

2001-11-10 Thread lloyder
Hello Michael, I am new to Debian, but my understanding of the role of maintainer is that you do not necessarily need to be able to patch the product the package you are maintaining contains, but know the package, and how it fits in to Debian. The more you know about the product, the program's

Re: building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:45:17PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/devel/ has just about all the references, > including the New Maintainer's Guide. Thanks. I glanced at the packages needing maintainers, and I'm not sure I'm qualified to handle any on that list. I'm a dec

Re: building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Brian Nelson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey people. > > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a .deb > package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me

Re: building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:13:24PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a .deb > package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me to t

Re: building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Saturday 10 November 2001 20:13, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. > > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a > .deb package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone

building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a .deb package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me to the definite reference on how to do this? Thanks,