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Re: Hi! Looking to contribute

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Hi,

Welcome aboard Andrei!

If you follow the "bugs in pkg-java public packages" link from 
https://java.debian.net/ you will find a nice stash of FTBFS bugs (those 
with the ⛺ symbol). Working on a few of them is probably a good way to 
become familiar with the packaging and build systems as well as Debian's 
peculiar BTS.

Some of these FTBFS bugs were probably resolved in a way or another but 
were never updated or closed. Outdated FTBFS reports will unnecessarily 
prevent packages from being shipped in the upcoming stable release, so 
clearing them is useful.

I would suggest you to first try to reproduce the issue reported in the 
bug with the current version in `unstable`. Pay attention to the package 
version and for now skip bugs reported against experimental packages, 
bugs that are already fixed in unstable, and FTBFS on specific 
architectures.

Try to aim for bugs that are between 3 months - 3 years old as those are 
the most likely to be outdated and/or easily resolved. Also look for 
bugs that have FTBFS in the title but are not tagged "ftbfs", they need 
tagging if they are reproducible.

Setup (for example) sbuild in unshare mode with an unstable chroot, try 
to build a good package with it to check that it works, and then use it 
to try to build packages with open FTBFS reports to check if the reports 
are still relevant.

Then take notes and report here or on #debian-java on IRC. Most of these 
bugs will need to be reassigned to a different (dependency) package that 
is actually the root cause of the issue, try to figure out which one and 
if the build is now successful which version of the package or the 
dependency solved the issue (by checking the changelogs or other similar 
resolved bug reports).

Good hunting!

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Plissonneau Duquène

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