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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
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
that I like,

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some practice that I prefer about Debian
packaging,

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

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permanent or final thing.

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

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

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One is that I hope that I can show you
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
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
what I am doing wrong,

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

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If you see something that I am proposing
up here,

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

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

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of people who are doing packaging,
explaining what they are doing,

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and so I thought I would just step up and
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
same and explain what they are doing,

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and maybe they can learn from me and
I can learn from them.

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

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

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we have some folks with walking mics
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
interruption or whatever,

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that is fine.

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

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I ??? the whole time, so there will be
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
read the web page,

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but then you would not have the nice
??? actions,

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and it is easier to tell me that I am
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
it.

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

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

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First baseline is: I really like revision
control.

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

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

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hmmm, I think a lot of people don't get
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
a responsibly work,

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on at least two software packages, and
maybe 5.

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So you have got the version that is
unstable and you have got

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

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And we are committing to doing maintenance
work.

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

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

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to make sure things work, functionally,


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

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

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keep track of what changes