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This page gives more information on the packages I maintain for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Please refer to the Debian main site for more information about the Debian project
I'm the maintainer of a few packages in the official Debian distribution:
I'm its maintainer since May 2001.
However, starting from August 2004, it turned out that the package was not very actively maintainedand I finally decided to take it over in May 2005. This required building a dedicated project on the Alioth server and gather a small team of motivated maintainers.
Team work is a key point for the maintenance of Debian packages when they happen to be important or complicated packages, or when maintainers simply don't have all the required skills to maintain them (which exactly fits myself...).
The experience of the shadow package maintenance is a very rich experience, where my role is mostly animating the development, giving targets and goals to my co-maintainers and handle only a few parts of the package development.
In May 2005, I finally managed to be convinced by Steve Langasek to more actively participate to the development of the samba package, to assist Eloy Paris and him in this package maintenance.
Up to now, I have made my best to improve the communication with upstream developers and make some work on existing bugs.