
Story: Leaving Debian
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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Debian, Debian Helper
i first joined debby an, you know, i did package up 70 or 80 gameser. But then the first thing that i did as i'm like, wow, it's really hard to package offer and debby, and how can i make this easier? And so i built something called deb helper, which made it easy to make debian packages. So within a year or so, probably 50 per cent of the distribution was built with deb helper. It was around a hundred, 200 people for a while, if they got bigger during the dok comboom. Was very much the anomaly at that point. Very few of them were paid to work on it, like i was.
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