ContactingOtherDistroPackagers

Contacting fellow packagers from other distros

Sometimes (most of the time) if a package needs patches to be able to package it properly it might be a good idea to share your work/experience with fellow packagers from other distros and ask them todo the same with you. Especially if a package really needs a lot of work.

Below is a list of pages with package maintainers email-addresses from other distros, so that you can easily find whom to contact:

• Debian: http://www.debian.org/devel/people
• Mandriva: http://qa.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/srpmmaints.cgi
• FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/master-index.html (follow package name link)

And for completeness, here is the list for Fedora (the Bugzilla links show email addresses only to logged on users):

• Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/describecomponents.cgi?product=Fedora
• http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/owners/owners.list