Debian Contributions

What is Debian?

• Debian Official Website

Find out HERE how you can contribute to Debian

Packages in need of a maintainer:

• Orfan Packages

Bugs: https://bugs.debian.org/BUGNUMBER
             https://bugs.debian.org/PACKAGENAME

bugs.debian.org

• Search for bugs with severity: Critical. Grave and Serious
• Select Bugs "in packages maintained by "[email protected]"

Another way to search for bugs:
udd.debian.org/bugs
Filter:

• tagged: ftbfs(fails to build from source - package is not being compiled)

Get following informatio to filter:

• User and Usertags

Checking bugs in the command line:

apt install devscripts
man bts | grep select
bts select package:openarena
bts status:493739
bts select maintainer:[email protected] status:open severity:critical severity:grave severity:serious
bts select maintainer:[email protected] status:open usertag:ftbfs-gcc-14 users:[email protected]

Create the environment:

docker run -it \
--name debian-bugfix \
vlpontes/debian-bugfix:latest

Check if the bug was('nt) fixed outside Debian:

https://tracker.debian.org/**package_name**
Clicking in "other distros" redirects to: https://repology.org/project/**package_name**

Starting fixing the bug:

mkdir package_name; cd package_name # create a folder with the name of the package
apt source package_name # download the source code of the package
cd package_name-version # after downloading it extracts a folder with the name of the package
debuild # compile the source code

Create a patch to the fix:

ls debian/patches # to check the name of previous patches
dpkg-source --commit # to create a patch
debuild # compile the package you just fixed
debi # to install and test the fixed package before sending to Debian