Join the Debian Multimedia Team!

[Khashayar Naderehvandi]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Grammostola Rosea
<rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>> Cory K. wrote:
>>> I really hope this come to something. Since I started Studio I've had
>>> like 3 people that worked out packaging-wise. It would be great to add
>>> another person or 2. Unfortunately, getting people to work between
>>> Debian/Ubuntu is a commitment most people just don't wanna bother with.
>>>
>>> Are you on the Debian multimedia team currently?
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, let's hope so.
>> I'm not official in the Debian Multimedia Team, but I started with it
>> today actually. I'm trying to build klick (metronome) and maybe will
>> take a look at rakarrack.
>>
>> The great thing about building for the Debian Multimedia Team is that
>> you work in a team, so you get easily assistance and help. Also, like
>> I said, you don't have to become a full Debian developer, you just can
>> stay a package maintainer, which gives a lot opportunities for
>> building multimedia packages.
>>
>> Come on people
>> *
>> One Debian/Ubuntu-multimedia-user, One package!
>>
>> *All the best.
>>
>> \r
>>
> @ Cory and others,
>
> Do you know multimedia packages which are in Debian and not in Ubuntu or
> vice versa?
>
I would definitely want to package for debian, and then have packages
synced to ubuntu automatically. I'm currently packaging pencil for
ubuntu, and will probably try to repackage it for debian further down
the road.
My problem with debian packaging currently, is that I'm not at all
familiar with the tools and so on. I simply don't feel at home.

With Ubuntu I have two invaluable tools: prevu and the PPA. Prevu
(which is a wrapper of sorts around pbuilder), because it's the first
thing I came over, and it's so simple to use that I haven't bothered
learning pbuilder. Also, launchpad is neat, I can't get used to the
email based BTS of debian's.

However, I have my mind set on learning and getting used to the debian
way of things. As soon as I find the time.

Regards,
Khashayar