= Debian RPM Packaging Team (pkg-rpm) =

Announcement email: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00494.html

== Infrastructure ==

 * '''Git repositories''': https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-rpm-team
 * '''Package tracker team''': https://tracker.debian.org/teams/pkg-rpm/
 * '''Git repositories (deprecated)''': https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-rpm/
 * '''Alioth Project (deprecated)''': https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-rpm/

== Interacting with the team ==

 * '''Mailing list''': pkg-rpm-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org ([[https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-rpm-devel|subscription page]])
/* * '''Public IRC channel''': #debian-pkg-rpm on irc.debian.org (OFTC) */

== Usual roles ==

 * Thomas Goirand is project admin on alioth
 * Michal Čihař is project admin on alioth
 * Mike Miller is project admin on alioth

== Task description ==

While we're still using dpkg and apt in Debian (and we have no intention
to change that), it is still useful to maintain these packages. For
example, yum can be used as a debootstrap replacement to create a CentOS
or Fedora chroot from within a Debian system. Createrepo can be used to
maintain a yum repository from a Debian machine. Etc.

Here's the list of packages which are going to be team maintained from the start:
 * createrepo
 * deltarpm
 * rpm
 * rpmlint
 * yum
 * yum-metadata-parser
 * yum-utils

== Get involved ==

 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>> Prepare a patch for a [[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=pkg-rpm-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org|bug on a team maintained package]].
 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>><<Icon(star_on.png)>> Help us with the TODO list

'''TODO'''

 * finish setting up the team infrastructure
 * adopt the orphaned ''alien'' package

== Packaging rules ==

We don't intend to enforce strong packaging rules. Just use
git-buildpackage please, so that we have a common ground to work on, and
accept that anyone in the team can touch "your" package and upload.
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