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Introduction to the Debian mailing lists

Most of the the conversation between Debian developers and users is managed through several mailing lists. Debian GNU/Linux is developed through distributed development all around the world. Therefore email is the preferred way to discuss various items.

There are several world-open mailing lists while there are also some lists which are only open to active developers. Please don't interpret this as closed development, everyone is encouraged to help development of debian and to spread the word of free software. On the other hand it doesn't make much sense discussing internal topics with non-developers.

All original Debian mailing lists run on a special server with a mail transport agent that is optimized for lists. This host is called lists.debian.org. All submission, subscription and unsubscription messages have to go to this host.

The language used on all lists is English unless stated otherwise. There are some user lists for other languages available.

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Please remember the -REQUEST inside of the name.

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User lists

There are several user based mailing lists where developers and users can get in contact to discuss and solve problems.

debian-user: This is the main mailing list for all users and developers of Debian GNU/Linux systems. Many developers also follow the threads and step in to help every now and then.
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debian-user-digest is a read-only, digestified version.
debian-isp: This list discusses issues and problems specific to Internet Service Providers (ISP for short).
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debian-mirrors: Important changes of the ftp archive are announced here to give archive maintainers a chance to take care of their archives.
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debian-laptop: This list discuss installing, updating and using laptops under Debian. Suggestions on special packaging, compliants, etc. are welcome.
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debian-boot: Creating and modifying of the boot floppies is the subject of this list.
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debian-curiosa: This is a pool for funny stuff aroundDebian. These can be prunes, IRC-Logs, and other words with strange or different meanings. Some kind of (de.)alt.netdigest for debian-related stuff.
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debian-announce: News and important changes in the project are announced here.
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debian-security-announce: The security team informs the users about security problems here. Mainly security advisories covering fixed packages are released.
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debian-security: To discuss security issues, including cryptographic issues, that are of interest to all parts of the Debian community.
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debian-commercial: This is a moderated list where information for Debian related products from software and hardware vendors are published. Please note that posting commercial posts to any other Debian mailing list is not permitted. Send submissions to the moderator at press@debian.org.
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debian-news: General news about the distribution and the project.
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debian-changes: Changes to the releases are announced here. This includes security upgrades as well as important bugfixes.
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debian-changes-digest is a read-only, digestified version.

Development lists

There are several lists on which developers and experienced users discuss more technical issues. In addition, there are some announcement lists to help experienced users keep track of development.

debian-testing: This list finds problems with the next Debian release. This includes: trying the installation, trying the upgrade, and testing individual packages.
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debian-consultants: This list is intended to help Debian GNU/Linux consultants communicate with each other.
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debian-legal: Subject of this list are discussions about legality issues such as copyrights.
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debian-pilot: This list is not for people who drive airplanes, but for the 3COM Pilot palmtop. GPL works for it and there is some significant free software that can work with Linux.
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debian-mentors: This list is for newbie maintainers who seek help with initial packaging and other developer-related issues. Those who prefer one-on-one help should also post to the list, and an experienced developer will volunteer. This list is not meant for users questions but for new maintainers.
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debian-devel-games: Development and packaging discussion for games and game-related software in Debian.
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debian-beowulf: This list covers discussion about Beowulf system running Debian GNU.
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debian-devel-announce: Announcements of development issues like policy changes, important release issues &c.
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debian-x: This list.s for the discussion and support of the X Window System within Debian. This is NOT a user support list; this list is intended for those who deal with the source code.
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debian-qa-private: Private communication between members of the QA committee.
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debian-vote: Proposals, discussions and announcements related to Official Debian Votes.
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debian-project: Debian project related non-technical (i.e. political, organizational, etc.) discussions.
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debian-snapshots: This list is for developers who are interested in building an automated system for generating "snapshot" Debian packages on a regular basis from upstream snapshots or CVS sources.
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debian-cd: Creating Debian CDs is subject of this list.
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debian-admin: This is our internal list used for administering the Debian machine park.
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deity: Debian GNU/Linux will get a new, friendly frontend to its package maintenance system. Its codename is deity (now known as APT) and its development is discussed here. The -digest is open to everyone.
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deity-digest is a read-only, digestified version.
debian-devel: This is the main discussion list for development topics. All developers should be subscribed to this list. As it is open to the public anyone can join the discussion.
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debian-devel-digest is a read-only, digestified version.
debian-perl: 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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debian-sgml: Discussion of issues related to SGML on Debian systems with an stress on proper integration of tools, packaging standards and the writing of documentation for SGML users. Therefore relevant for maintainers of SGML related packages. Discussion on the use of SGML packages is fine, too. All aspects of deployment and development relating to SGML and XML in general and particular DTDs, as well as related standards and technologies like DSSSL and XSL, can be discussed here.
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debian-devel-changes: Postings about new uploads, processed packages &c.
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debian-ctte-private: Private communication between tech committee members.
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debian-private: This list covers developer-to-developer issues. It is the main communication media for all developers. It's only supposed to be used for politically or technically sensitive discussions. Anything sent there should be treated as sensitive and not to be spread to other lists; thus cross-posting between it and an open list defeats the purpose of the list.
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debian-jr: This list is for developers to discussand carry out the work of making Debian the sort of OS that children will want to use. The web page is at http://master.debian.org/~synrg/debian-jr/
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debian-www-cvs: This list only distributes CSV commit logs for the Debian web pages which are CVS controlled. This list allows people who are interested in the logs to get the notifications.
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debian-toolchain: This is a list for discussions about the Debian toolchain (compilers, assemblers, linkers, and such). New releases for many of these tools are coordinated here.
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debian-release: This is a focused list for coordinating all the people who are involved with making Debian releases and revisions.
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debian-glibc: The C library, or libc is the most important library on a UNIX-like system. This list is for discussion of matters related to the Debian packaging of GNU libc.
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debian-java: Discussion about the packaging and use in Debian of VMs and compilers for the Java(tm) language, and programs written on it.
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debian-www: The design, structure and translation of our webpages are discussed here. If important changes are in progress they're discussed on this list first
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debian-admintool: The topic for this list is an administration tool for Debian. This tool should be able to maintain most of the configuration files that come with the packages.
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debian-hams: Support for HAMRadio within Debian GNU/Linux.
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debian-policy: Debian Policy is the topic of this list. Changes are discussed here before they are implemented.
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debian-qa: Quality assurance is important for a distribution. This list addresses this quality.
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debian-publicity: This list prepares press releases and discusses them before they get released and translated.
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debian-firewall: This list is for discussion of implementation and maintenance of firewalls using Debian. Both basic issues and new more exotic developments are discussed here.
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debian-emacsen: debian-emacsen is a forum for the discussion of all things related to the several Debian emacsen packages, and add-ons.
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debian-freshmeat: This is a list for discussion of the Deb Freshmeat Repository (DFMR) and announcement of new .debs that have been uploaded to the DFMR. The DFMR team is a group of Debian developers that package applications (or upload existing ones) in Freshmeat's appendix for the Freshmeat repository.
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debian-dpkg-cvs: The CVS commit messages for dpkg are useful, but they are flooding the debian-dpkg list too much unfortunately.
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debian-python: Discussion of issues related to Python on Debian systems with an stress on packaging standards. Therefore relevant for maintainers of Python related packages.
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debian-ipv6: This list discusses issues and problems using Debian in an IPv6 network. In particular discussion about adding IPv6 support to Debian packages is welcome.
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debian-dpkg: The program dpkg is the main tool for package maintenance within the distribution. This list contains discussions about it, especially on technical matters.
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debian-email: The intention of this list is to act as a grab-bag for Debian related correspondence such as contacting upstream authors about licenses, bugs etc. or discussing the project with others where it might be useful to have the discussion archived somewhere.
This is archived on the development machine and only developers have access to it.
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debian-autobuild: This list is used for discussions on auto-compile tools and systems that will build the distribution. Autobuild routines help in porting the distribution to other architectures.
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debian-ctte: Public meeting, business and announcements of the Debian Technical Committee
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debian-doc: Documentation of different parts of the system addressed on this list.
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debian-faq: Various topics concerning the FAQ are discussed on this list.
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Internationalization and Translations

These lists cover user and i18n concerns in non-english languages.

debian-l10n-spanish: This list is used to discuss localization issues, mainly about translating Debian docs and programs to Spanish.
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debian-chinese: This list is for internationalisation in chinese language.
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debian-i18n: Internationalization (i18n) of the distribution is discussed here.
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debian-user-spanish: This list is used to provide support for Spanish speaking users of Debian GNU/Linux.
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debian-japanese: This list discusses on Japanese Debian system, for example, how to use Japanese on Debian system, and how to integrate Debian JP Packages into Debian in mainly English. However, we encourage for non native Japanese to write Japanese mail on this list. For native Japanese, Debian JP Project provides several mailing-list discussing on Debian system in Japanese. See http://www.debian.or.jp/MailingList.html
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debian-l10n-portuguese: This list is used for translation of the documentation, programs, and adaptation of the translations for the Portuguese language.
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debian-user-portuguese: This list is used to give Portuguese-speaking users of Debian sub-projects (not only GNU/Linux) a forum to to some work together, ranging from internationalization to advocacy (ala debian-publicity) to translation of the website to user support (ala debian-user) and even the occasional project-internal flamewar (ala debian-devel).
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debian-user-swedish: This list is for Swedish speaking Debian users and developers.
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debian-french: Native French speaking users of Debian GNU/Linux discuss various topics on this list.
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debian-italian: This list supports native Italian speaking users of Debian GNU/Linux.
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debian-russian: This list discusses the russifying Debian and translating debian documentation projekt. Also it discusses translating of po files for debian packages, and coordinating patches for debian packages to work with russian language.
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debian-user-de: This mailing list is the main mailing list for German speaking users. To subscribe to the list send "subscribe debian-user-de" to majordomo@jfl.de To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe debian-user-de" to the same address.
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debian-simplified-chinese: This list serves the same purpose as debian-chinese, that is, for internationalisation of Chinese packages and for discussion in Chinese, except that only Simplified Chinese (currently GB encoding) and English can be used in this list.
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Ports to non-i386 architectures

Debian GNU/Linux is ported to several other systems.

debian-mips: Discussions on the MIPS port of Debian GNU/Linux.
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debian-68k: Discussions on the m68k port of Debian GNU/Linux.
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debian-hurd: This list is for discussion of the port of Debian to the Hurd (GNU) operating system.
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debian-ultralinux: Discussion on the Sparc64 (known as ultrasparc) port for Debian GNU/Linux.
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debian-sparc: Discussions on the SPARC port of Debian GNU/Linux.
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debian-bsd: This list is for the discussion of porting Debian to BSD.
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debian-powerpc: Discussion on the PowerPC port of Debian GNU/Linux.
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debian-arm: Discussion on the ARM (esp. Corel Netwinder) port for Debian GNU/Linux.
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win32: This list is about porting the Debian distribution to Win32 systems... (hence Debian GNU/Win32)
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debian-alpha: Discussion on the Alpha port of Debian GNU/Linux.
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The Bugtracking System

The bugtracking system for Debian GNU/Linux is open to the public. It produces a lot of mail that might be of general interest for some users and developers. Therefore some forwarding lists were created to distribute mail from the bugtracking system.

debian-bugs-dist: All submitted bug reports as well as further information on them are distributed here.
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debian-bugs-reports: This lists distribute the weekly bugs reports
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debian-bugs-closed: This list notifies its subscribers when bugs are closed.
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debian-bugs-forwarded: The mail that forwards bugs to their upstream author is distributed via this list.
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Lists hosted for other projects

Our listserver provides listserver facilities for other free projects as well.

mptools-devel: Developer list for the mpTOOLS project, multi-platform tools in Java. See http://members.tripod.com/~mpTOOLS/dev.html
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zinc-devel: This list is used to discuss development of the game Zinc. See http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~olet/zinc.html if you want more info on Zinc. This list will probably be useful only for the Zinc-team.
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berlin-reports: This list is a bag for automatic generated mails from the Berlin development tools: CVS and Bugs
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lsb-spec: Linux Standard Base (LSB) written standard list.

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other-gnomehack: GNOMEhack is a GNOME graphical front-end to Nethack. This list is used to discuss development of it.
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lcs-eng: List used by the "Linux Compatibility Standard" committee to discuss issues relating to defining this standard.

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ldp-discuss: Linux Documentation Project (LDP) general discussion. This list is for LDP authors and for those who wish to participate in the development of LDP documents. It is not a support channel for Linux.
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lsb-discuss: Linux Standard Base (LSB) general discussion.

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lsb-test: Linux Standard Base (LSB) test suite list.

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other-vgui-discuss: The V C++ GUI Framework - an object-oriented GUI library for X, Win32 and OS/2. V is licensed under the GNU LGPL. The web page is at http://www.objectcentral.com/ .
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berlin-design: Developer list for the Berlin Consortium. See also http://www.berlin-consortium.org/
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other-sart: SART is a free raytracer that uses Guile extension language and is distributed under GPL. This list is intended to discuss anything related to SART, as well as to post announcements. The SART website is at http://petra.zesoi.fer.hr/~silovic/sart/ .
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lsb-impl: Linux Standard Base (LSB) sample implementation list.

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spi-email: The intention of this list is to act as a bag for SPI-related correspondence such as contacting vendors etc. or discussing the project with others where it might be useful to have the discussion archived somewhere.
This is being archived on the development site and only SPI members have access to it.
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lsb-vendor: LSB vendor forum.
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lsb-eng: Linux Standard Base (LSB) uses it to discuss issues relating to defining this standard.
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