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[James Sharam <james.sharam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Looks like my original message was not distributed correctly, so I thought
I'd try again.

Thanks,

- James

2009/2/1 James Sharam <james.sharam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi everyone,
>
> My name is James (neutrix on the forums & IRC) and I am also fairly new to
> packaging .deb files, but I have been learning a lot in the last few days
> and I am eager to learn more. I have been programming for 9 years now, so I
> have a fairly good understanding of the majority of the main languages and
> compiling from source.
>
> I did have a couple of questions about the project though. When choosing
> what to package, is it going to be a free for all or are we going to be
> assigned projects to keep up to date, for example someone keeps an eye on
> wine and packages it as needed, someone keeps an eye on python etc? Do we
> have any method in place to keep an eye on the quality of packages? Also, is
> there a prefered way of packaging or is it ok to use any method we are happy
> with (checkinstall, dh_make etc)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - James
>
>