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 * 2009-12 [[http://packages.debian.org/debhelper|debhelper]]: Provided patch to improve debhelper documentation [[DebianBug:560600|560600]]

Debian related information

Debian QA work

See BTS. About 1000 items reported to BTS by 2008-12.

Debian package maintenance

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

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

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

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

Helping other packages

The following list is only an excerpt.

Debian project

  • 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). Contributed by editing the page rearrange page to use headings and related subjects. Edited whole page to use more user friendly tone. See revision log for complete 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 Bug#376594

  • 2006-04-19 update-alternatives proposal to add new categories for WORD, EXCEL, MEDIA-PLAYER etc. Bug#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 groff, GNU Bash 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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