[pkg-bacula-devel] Contribution

[Mario Pranjic]

On 12/4/20 8:52 PM, Sven Hartge wrote:
>
> The New Maintainer Guide is the usual starting point. Mentors has a 
> nice collection of links here 
> https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/
>
Thanks! Will read it.

Also noticed that Rodin wrote it. He is a friend of mine. Also worked 
together some years ago. It's a small world. :)

> Also looking at other projects on Salsa is helpful, this is the way I 
> learned most things.
>
> Just "gbp clone project-url-here" and start fiddling with it.
>
> Start with setting up a build root with pbuilder/cowbuilder, see "man 
> git-pbuilder", to be able to just "gbp buildpackage" anything and 
> observe its inner workings.
>
> To begin, fork the bacula-libs3 repository into your own namespace in 
> Salsa, so you can push and pull and break stuff to your hearts content 
> without pulluting the main repository with your experiments.
>
> It did the same for the Bacula repositories to do more invasive and 
> possible NSFW experiments.
>
> And with git there is of course always the option of just using a 
> completely local repository to experiment, no need to push anything 
> anywhere remote.
>

Thanks for the tips. Looking into it.
I'd like to manage to build packages as they are for bacua-libs3 and 
then to apply patch and change it.

Best reards,

--
Mario.


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