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This Debian Privacy Tools Maintainers packaging team takes care of privacy and anonymity related packages in Debian. It was previously called Anonymity Tools packaging team and OTR packaging team. Not all packages related to privacy are handled by our team though (see tor) and there is no obligation to do so.
Infrastructure
Interacting with the team
Email contact: pkg-privacy-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Get involved
New team membership is currently blocked by the adoption of a membership policy. This shall happen ~ August 9th 2018.
Package Maintainers
Our team processes Git repository contains our Membership policy. You may request membership via our Salsa page. We will then, following this policy, decide upon your request. The abovementioned document also contains information on decision making processes within our team.
We use a mailing list to communicate with each other.
The email address of this list is also the address used as "Maintainer:" control field of team-maintained packages. See pkg privacy process.
Furthermore, we have a dedicated mailing list for commits related to team maintained packages.
Tools and processes
Please read the information in team processes Git repository. Furthermore:
We are maintaining the packaging in Git, using gbp.
- Whenever possible, use the upstream signed Git tag as the canonical upstream release, and generate the tarball ourselves.
- We are using source format 3.0 (quilt).
Git branch layout should follow gbp's recommendations and defaults if possible, see file:///usr/share/doc/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.intro.html#GBP.REPOSITORY
- We don't apply patches to the upstream source that have not been submitted upstream yet (if applicable).
Developers
Help squash bugs
Have a look at the bug tracker if you want to help squash bugs from various projects. If you would like to do this long-term, we encourage you to subscribe to the mailing-list.
Bug Triagers
Triaging bugs is welcome!
Users
Reporting bugs
We like to fix bugs in anonymity software. If it's not Debian specific, we'll forward it to upstream. An example of a bug email can be found below.
To: submit@bugs.debian.org From: diligent@testing.linux.org Subject: Cannot launch the Tor Browser Package: torbrowser-launcher Version: 0.1.0-1.2 Severity: serious There is some sort of error with twisted preventing the version check information from being downloaded, which in turn prevents the Tor Browser from starting at all. Here is my output: <output> I am using Debian GNU/Linux 7, Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores).