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Debian related information

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Debian QA work

See maintained software packages, portofolio and BTS. About 1700 items reported to BTS by 2012-01.

Debian package maintenance

See Developer information. I have LowThresholdNmu and participate in collab-maint, so use Debian git repository for submitting patches to packages:

    apt-get install devscripts    # for debcheckout(1)

    debcheckout PACKAGE
    cd PACKAGE
    git checkout -b my-fixes master

    #  edit & commit cycle
    $EDITOR ...
    git status
    git add <changed files>
    git commit -m "MESSAGE"

    #  When ready, make a patch (set)
    git  format-patch --signoff -M

    #  Submit all git 000-* patches
    #  to Debian BTS http://bugs.debian.org/PACKAGE
    #  or send to PACKAGE@packages.debian.org

If you are a developer, or otherwise deal with bug reports, you may find Colin Watson's blog "about how to treat bugs reports" interesting.

Helping Debian packages

The following list is only an excerpt.

Debian project

  • 2010 Suggested patch to improve DEP5 (debian/copyright)

  • 2010 Suggested to extend debhelper to support included manual pages in Perl POD format. The POD format is more redable and require no external tools compared to existing nroff and docbook formats. Provided patch to debhelper to implement this feature. 562030.

  • 2009 Debian BTS: suggestion to implement debhelper control file debian/dh_norun 560423

  • 2008 Wiki: CopyrightFormat. Contributed to new debian/copyright format: EBNF, licensing tables, license clarifications (OpenSSL, Font etc.), Examined and added numerous links to mailing lists regarding the version numbering and use of licenses. See revision log for complete list of changes. See also previous format 360640

  • 2008 Wiki: DebianIRCChannelGuidelines (former ?PoundDebianGuidelines). Added headings and related subjects. Changed the tone of the page page into more user friendly direction. See revision log for list of changes.

  • 2006-11-05 Policy improvement: "Proposed new POSIX sh policy" and proposal to change /bin/sh -> /bin/dash at Debian Devel

  • 2006-12-04 Debian BTS: Suggestion for new notbug tag 376594

  • 2006-04-19 update-alternatives proposal to add new categories for WORD, EXCEL, MEDIA-PLAYER etc. 363486

External Projects

IRC/Bug reporter nick: jaalto

Contributed patches and fixes to numerous Open Source projects during past years, those of Emacs, XEmacs, Perl Language itself, Git, Bzr, Quilt, Parted, Splint, GNU gdb, GNU binutils, GNU findutils, GNU groff, GNU Bash, OpenSwan etc. Check Google and Gmane lists for "Jari Aalto".

Personal

Open Source Author, Developer, Package porter/maintainer, Project Manager since 1994 at Sourceforge, Savannah, Ubuntu Launchpad, Cygwin. See http://bazaar-vcs.org/JariAalto for more information.

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