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Contributing packages to Debian - an Introduction

Proposal status is Approved
Session Description

Introduce basic concepts of Debian release life cycle and tools to enable maintaining .deb packages in Debian. This talk will introduce the process of different versions/distributions of debian like stable, testing and unstable and how packages move from one to another.

There will be a packaging workshop after this talk for those who are interested in contributing to maintaining packages in Debian.

Key Takeaways

how a software ends up in debian

difference between different versions of debian

References

Session Categories

Contributing to FOSS

Speakers

Pirate Praveen Debian Developer | Debian

Debian Developer maintaining gitlab in Debian. Also maintains https://fasttrack.debian.net

Part of

  1. FSCI https://fsci.in

  2. Durare https://durare.org

  3. Prav https://prav.app

Pirate Praveen
https://social.masto.host/@praveen