To: "__REALNAME__" <__EMAIL__> From: __WHOAMI__ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: New Debian maintainer __REALNAME__ Cc: new-maintainer@debian.org Reply-To: new-maintainer@debian.org Date: __DATE__ User-Agent: nm-create script run by __WHOAMI__ [ This is a long (automatically-generated) mail, but it contains important information, please read it all carefully. ] Dear __REALNAME__! An account has been created for you on master.debian.org and va.debian.org with username '__LOGIN__'. The password for this account can be found encrypted with your PGP key and appended to this message. You have been subscribed to the debian-private mailing list as <__PRIVATE__> (you should receive seperate confirmation of this from smartlist). Please respect the privacy of that list and don't forward mail from it elsewhere. E-mail to <__LOGIN__@debian.org> will be forwarded to <__EMAIL__>. To change this, edit the file '.qmail' in your home directory on master to point to the new address (don't forget the '&' character at the beginning of the line). Please subscribe to debian-devel-announce, if you haven't done so already. We strongly suggest that you use your __LOGIN__@debian.org address for the maintainer field in your packages, because that one will be valid as long as you are a Debian developer, even if you change jobs, leave university or change Internet Service providers. If you do so, please add that address to your PGP key (using `pgp -ke "YOUR USER ID"'), if you have one, and your GnuPG key (using `gpg --edit-key "YOUR USER ID"') and send it to . You can find more information useful to developers at (in particular, see the subsection titled "Debian Developer's reference"). We suggest that you subscribe to debian-mentors@lists.debian.org. This list is for new maintainers who seek help with initial packaging and other developer-related issues. Those who prefer one-on-one help can also post to the list, and an experienced developer may volunteer to help you. You can get online help on IRC, too, if you join the channel #debian-devel on irc.debian.org. Take a look at the support section on www.debian.org in order to find out more information. You should have read these documents before working on your packages. o The Debian Social Contract o The Debian Policy Manual o The Debian Packaging Manual If you have some spare time and want to contribute it to Debian you may wish to take a look at the "Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux" also known as WNPP that can be found at If you plan to make a Debian package from a not yet packaged piece of software you *must* announce your intention on the debian-devel mailing list to make sure nobody else is working on them. The machine master.debian.org is our main archive server. Every uploaded package finds it's way there (except for Packages covered by US crypto laws which go to non-us.debian.org) eventually. That machine is also the home of our web pages and our bug tracking system. The second machine va.debian.org is supposed to take over some of the work master does. Both machines were sponsored by companies (Novare Inc. for master and VA Linux Systems for va). Please don't over-stress them and use your accounts carefully. You should use ssh to log into the machines instead of regular telnet or rlogin. We have installed ~/.ssh directories and authorized_keys files with appropriate permissions on both machines. If you want to ssh to them without typing the password, run ssh-keygen on your machine and add the contents of ~/.ssh/identity.pub into the authorized_keys files in ~/.ssh on master and va. But please be aware of the security implications of doing this. Welcome to the project! -- The Debian New Maintainer Team __PASSWORD__