Package maintainers, I feel like such an outsider

From	Wayne Booth <wbooth.clearscene@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Package maintainers, I feel like such an outsider
Date	2016-04-25 16:20 +0200
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Hi all,

Sorry for this little lost sheep mail, but even after pouring over the
documentation many times, I really cant find a solution to my issue.

I'm a developer of some 3rd party applications, one of which is getting
some traction with a wider audience. For some time I've looked at
documentation and articles about how to get a package into the Debian
repositories. Unfortunately, with no luck - since it seems to me that I
need to have some of relationships with people at Debian, that have access.
(?)

Recently, I found that one of the libraries I use has just dropped off the
Debian repositories (
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751916). This kills the
USP for my application. I can provide a .deb to my users for my app, but
cannot for the requisite libraries.

So, my question is this. Is there anything I can do, as someone with no
special merit or connections at Debian, but with time, technical skill and
the motivation to see this happen, to get the "pHash" re-included into the
repositories?

And, second (to a lesser degree for now) start the ball rolling in getting
my application into the repositories?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards.

Wayne Booth.

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Package maintainers, I feel like such an outsider Wayne Booth <wbooth.clearscene@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 16:20 +0200
  Re: Package maintainers, I feel like such an outsider Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-04-25 17:50 +0200
  Re: Package maintainers, I feel like such an outsider "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-04-25 18:00 +0200
    Re: Package maintainers, I feel like such an outsider "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-04-25 18:10 +0200
  Re: Package maintainers, I feel like such an outsider <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-04-25 18:10 +0200
  Re: Package maintainers, I feel like such an outsider deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 21:20 +0200

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