Introduction to the Debian mailing lists ======================================== Debian is developed through distributed development all around the world. Therefore, email is the preferred way to discuss various items. Much of the conversation between Debian developers and users is managed through several mailing lists. There are many world-open mailing lists, meaning anyone can read everything that is posted, and participate in the discussions. Everyone is encouraged to help development of Debian and to spread the word of free software. There are also a few lists which are only open to official Debian developers; please don't interpret this as closed development, it sometimes doesn't make much sense discussing internal topics with non-developers. All original Debian mailing lists run on a special server, using an automatic mail processing software called SmartList. This server is called lists.debian.org. All submission, subscription and unsubscription messages have to be sent to a particular address at this host. The language used on all lists is English, unless stated otherwise. There are some user lists for other languages available. Subscription / Unsubscription ----------------------------- Anyone is able to subscribe/unsubscribe on their own to any mailing list, presuming the subscription policy for a particular list is `open'. The requests for subscription or unsubscription can be sent to a special control address, which is slightly different from the list address. Subscription or unsubscription messages should NOT be sent to the address of the mailing list itself. To subscribe or unsubscribe from a mailing list, please send mail to -REQUEST@lists.debian.org with the word `subscribe' or `unsubscribe' as subject. Please remember the -REQUEST part of the address. As part of the subscription process, the list software will send you an email to which you must reply in order to finish subscribing. This is a security measure to keep people from subscribing others to the lists without their permission. If you need to contact a human listmaster, direct your mail to listmaster@lists.debian.org . To find out who is responsible for the lists, take a look at https://www.debian.org/intro/organization User lists There are several user based mailing lists where developers and users can get in contact to discuss and solve problems. debian-announce@lists.debian.org Description : Major news and very important changes in the project are announced here. Moderated : yes Subscription: open debian-backports-announce@lists.debian.org Description : Announcements relating to the debian-backports project include security related announcements Moderated : yes Subscription: open debian-backports@lists.debian.org Description : Discussion about the debian-backports archive Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-chinese-big5@lists.debian.org Description : debian-user in Chinese [Traditional Chinese] Debian Chinese Project; Chinese localization (l10n) issues, documentation and website translation, user support, Chinese-specific development, etc. Posts may be in English or Chinese. The traditional variant of Chinese (Traditional Chinese, like zh_TW or zh_HK) is preferred. 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For Russian localization work, see debian-l10n-russian. https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-russian/ Language : Russian Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Description : The security team informs the users about security problems by posting security advisories about Debian packages on this list. Moderated : yes Subscription: open debian-security@lists.debian.org Description : Discussion about security issues, including cryptographic issues, that are of interest to all parts of the Debian community. Please note that this is NOT an announcement mailing list. If you're looking for security advisories from Debian, subscribe to debian-security-announce instead. Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-stable-announce@lists.debian.org Description : Updates to stable packages will be announced on this list. 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The Debian-Med Project web page is at https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Description : Helping newbie developers Newbie Debian contributors can seek help with packaging and infrastructure projects as well as other developer-related issues here. This list is not meant for users' questions, but for new contributors'! Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-metadata@lists.debian.org Description : The Debian Data team produces the frameworks and runs the services that make data about Debian available in a number of formats to make the data as accessable as possible and to encourage its use both within Debian and in external projects. Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-mobile@lists.debian.org Description : Discussions around packaging suitable mobile interfaces to Debian. Mobile systems have a user-interface different than the traditional 'keyboard-mouse' pair, can be battery-powered, have a generally small form factor and/or only allow few elements on a given screen. Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org Description : Discussion about the development of applications that produce multimedia content, handling multimedia data, supporting multimedia hardware etc. Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org Description : Packaging of Objective Caml programs and libraries. (http://caml.inria.fr/) Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org Description : Coordination of the maintenance of the OpenOffice and LibreOffice packages in Debian. Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-perl@lists.debian.org Description : The list is dedicated to coordinate the work of various perl package maintainer and to write a kind of perl sub-policy. 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It exists to facilitate coordination of ssh maintenance (talking to upstream, reproducing bugs, hacking on the code, etc.). It is *not* the place to mail bug reports (use the BTS for that), nor support requests. Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-testing@lists.debian.org Description : Finding problems with the next Debian release: testing the installation and the upgrade process. Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org Description : Coordination of the maintenance of Debian TeX and related packages. It is not meant for user support; for that, please use debian-user or one of the general TeX mailing lists or news groups. Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-toolchain@lists.debian.org Description : Discussion about the Debian toolchain: compilers, assemblers, linkers and such. New releases for many of these tools are coordinated here. 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Moderated : no Subscription: open package-sponsorship-requests@lists.debian.org Description : Track upload requests for packages about to be sponsored into Debian archive. This list is also the owner of the sponsorship-requests pseudo package - all control mails will arrive on this list. Moderated : no Subscription: open Internationalization and Translations These lists cover issues like localization, translation and support for users that don't speak English. debian-i18n@lists.debian.org Description : Internationalization (i18n) of the distribution is discussed here. Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-l10n-albanian@lists.debian.org Description : Discussing Albanian localization issues, mainly translating Debian docs and programs to Albanian. Moderated : no Subscription: open debian-l10n-arabic@lists.debian.org Description : Discussing Arabic localization issues, mainly translating Debian docs and programs to Arabic. 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