Official Debian IRC channels
The hostname irc.debian.org is an alias for irc.oftc.net. That means that the official Debian IRC channels are on the [http://www.oftc.net/ OFTC IRC network]. Note that [http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060604 Debian moved to OFTC] quite recently, so some debianized IRC programs may still seem to suggest that some other IRC network would be the IRC network for the official Debian IRC channels.
#debian: Meant for Debian users support. Any questions related to using Debian are welcome.
#debian-br: Por favor use #debian-br para ajuda em portugues.
#debian-bugs: Meant for discussing how to fix bugs. This channel is not for reporting bugs.
#debian-cd: Discussion about development of the debian-cd package and the production and distribution of official CD and DVD images.
#debian-devel: Meant for discussions about the development of Debian. This channel is not a support channel. Asking support questions here is inappropriate.
#debian.de: German-language user channel, also developers.
#debian-devel.de: German-language developer channel. Used when #debian.de is busy. Not a support channel.
#debian-es: Hispanohablantes: Por favor usen #debian-es, alli obtendran mas ayuda.
#debian-fr: Les personnes qui parlent francais mais peu ou pas anglais et qui ont besoin d'aide avec Debian peuvent demander sur #debian-fr.
#debian-games: All about Games and Debian
#debian-mentors: Meant for support for beginning developers. See also the debian-mentors mailing list.
#debian-newmaint: New Maintainer Process - https://nm.debian.org/.
#debian-nl: Voor ondersteuning in het Nederlands.
#debian-ocaml: Packaging and development of [http://caml.inria.fr OCaml]-related stuff in Debian
#debian-qa: Debian Quality Assurance - http://qa.debian.org/.
#debian-release: Debian Release Management - http://release.debian.org; NOT a support channel, only release related discussion here
#debian-uk: Debian in the UK (United Kingdom, not Ukraine); NOT a support channel.
#debian-vim: Packaging and development of [http://www.vim.org Vim]-related stuff in Debian
#debian channels have a ["/Netiquette"].
Other Debian related IRC channels
#debian-backports on [http://www.oftc.net/ OFTC]: Related to http://www.backports.org/ . The backports packages repository is not (yet) officially part of the Debian project.
Links
IRC servers: http://www.mirc.com/servers.html and http://www.irc-hispano.org
- ["IRC/debian-tech"]
?UsefulIrcChannels
- ["IRC/Operators"]