apt sources

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Wed Oct 6 01:05:18 UTC 2004


On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:12:54AM -0400, Benoit Caron wrote:

> I have trouble figuring how to submit packages for inclusion in Ubuntu,
> even in the Universe Area. I followed the web sites, and the best way I
> figured was to make a rather "officiallous" Package Selection Proposal
> in the governance meetings, via the Wiki. But: 1) I don't think listing
> packages name in a Wiki page is a proper way to make suggestion and 2) I
> did'nt have the right to edit the pages (sorry, I didn't make my
> homework to figure how to gather those rights... later, I guest).
> 
> So, how do we suggest such inclusions? I had to temporarily add a Sid
> source to add FirewallBuilder (fwbuilder), since it's the tool we use
> here to manage our firewalls, but I still feel it to be "unclean" on my
> system.. :\

The current procedure is to send mail to the ubuntu-devel mailing list
proposing the inclusion of a new package.

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 - mdz




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