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Thank you very much.

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Thanks everybody for coming,…

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If you are packaging software and you want[br]me to work on with you,

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this is how you can do that.

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It is a very self-??? talk:

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I just want to explain some of the things[br]that I like,

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some practice that I prefer about Debian[br]packaging,

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and I don't pretend this is any sort of[br]official,

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permanent or final thing.

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I just wanted to share some ideas that I[br]have about the way that I work with

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packages, in the hope that maybe, hmm,[br]for two hopes:

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One is that I hope that I can show you[br]something that you have not heard of,

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or maybe you were doing differently,

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or maybe you think it is the right think[br]to do and it is just nice to see somebody

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somebody else doing it.

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My second hope is that you can tell me[br]what I am doing wrong,

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and you can help me learn and improve[br]on my own packaging techniques.

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If you see something that I am proposing[br]up here,

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and you think there is a problem with it,[br]I would like to hear about it too.

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I just want to see more of the culture[br]within Debian,

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of people who are doing packaging,[br]explaining what they are doing,

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and so I thought I would just step up and[br]explain:

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"Here is some of the practice that I do",

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In the hope that other people will do the[br]same and explain what they are doing,

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and maybe they can learn from me and[br]I can learn from them.

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Without much further ????, I am just going[br]to dive into it.

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If you have questions, I am perfectly[br]happy to be interrupted,

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we have some folks with walking mics[br]in the crowd:

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you can just raise your hand.

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I you have got a question or an[br]interruption or whatever,

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that is fine.

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I ??? I got the whole 15 minutes,[br]I think there are 20 minutes,

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I ??? the whole time, so there will be[br]also time for questions at the end

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if you prefer.

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But I do not mind being interrupted.

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So, this is all on this web page here,

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you could probably skip this talk and go[br]read the web page,

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but then you would not have the nice[br]??? actions,

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and it is easier to tell me that I am[br]wrong in person,

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so I would like to have that happen.

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I put this up on the Debian wiki,

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because I want anyone to be able to find[br]it.

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If you thing you have got some good ideas,[br]you should put it on the Debian Wiki too:

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other people can take advantage of the[br]ideas that you have got.

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First baseline is: I really like revision[br]control.

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And I know that it makes me a certain[br]flavor on nerd,

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but when we are working with things that[br]are as complicated as software packages,

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hmmm, I think a lot of people don't get[br]that in Debian we are not just working on

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one software package:

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you are actually probably, if you are doing[br]a responsibly work,

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on at least two software packages, and[br]maybe 5.

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So you have got the version that is[br]unstable and you have got

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the version that you try to maintain for[br]stable as well.

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And we are committing to doing maintenance[br]work.

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A lot of our work in the project is ???[br]in nature:

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we want to clean up the mess and we want[br]us to stay out of the way and

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to make sure things work, functionally,[br]

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for people who are relying on the[br]operating system to not get in their way.

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So revision control I think is really[br]helpful because it means you can

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keep track of what changes