Request to Join Project Debian Multimedia Packages

[Hans Baier]

2009/5/2 Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>:
> Hans Baier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I haven't read you so far on our Mailing list at all so far. I'm
>>>> therefore unsure if you are aware how the team works and what we expect
>>>> from prospective team members. I've tried to document that on [1]. The
>>>> page could surely be improved, but it should already help you to get
>>>> started.
>>>>
>>
>> I didn't mail to the list so far, because the documentation tends to
>> be pretty confusing
>> for beginners. It's not quite clear which steps I should take in which
>> order.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Should the Debian Multimedia Team be a bit more open to new package
>>> maintainers? More hands, make work a bit easier.... Wouldn't it be nice
>>> if
>>> Hans, could maintain his two or more packages? They seems to be pretty
>>> new
>>> though and dunno if they are stable....
>>>
>>
>>  Also, I have no pbuilder installed yet, because I live in Indonesia, it's
>> very painful: I tried the installation twice, and after some hours of
>> downloading,
>> the network connection would fluctuate and pbuilder would erase
>> everything downloaded,
>> so I just gave up on that since I have a bandwidth quota of 3GB.
>>

One example:

jack at hansbaier:~$ sudo DIST=sid pbuilder create --override-config
--configfile ~/.pbuilderrc -v
Distribution is sid.
Building the build environment
 -> running debootstrap
/usr/sbin/debootstrap
I: Retrieving Release
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Found additional required dependencies: libdb4.7
I: Checking component main on http://kebo.vlsm.org/debian...
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