Contribute to Debian

Contribute to Debian:

Packaging: Maintainer guide Bug report: Bugreport manual Package informations tracker

Wnpp

An overview over all packages that are orphaned, intended to package or intended to adopt can be found here on wnpp some introduction and the explanation of the abbreviations can be found here:

  • O Orphaned package

  • RFA Request for adoption

  • RFH Request for help

  • ITP Intend to package

  • RFP Request for package

  • ITA Intend to adapt an orpaned package

Packaging

apt install sbuild devscripts piuparts lintian git-buildpackage quilt
apt get source hello
cd hello-2.10/
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us

wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.10.tar.gz
tar -xf hello-2.10.tar.gz 
cd hello-2.10/
git init
gbp import-orig ../hello-2.10.tar.gz --debian-branch=debian/latest --upstream-branch=upstream/latest --pristine-tar

Visualize package dependencies

source

apt install debtree graphviz
debtree <name-of-package> | dot -Tpng > <name-of-output-file>.png