Dear list members, I would like some advise on how to submit a `mediawiki` related DEB package. Jeremy Baron recommended that I contact this mailing list. 0) New utilities Ariel T. Glenn at WMF wrote a set of utilities, `mwxml2sql', that help convert XML dump files into a format that can be readily loaded into the database for a local instance of MediaWiki. These utilities are written using C language, and offer some performance advantage over existing utilities such as `importDump.php'. The upstream source code may be found at <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/operations/dumps>. 1) Reason for packaging I wrote `wp-mirror' which is a free utility for mirroring any desired set of WMF wikis. This I distribute as a DEB package. My next release, wp-mirror-0.6, is focused on performance improvement; and, among other things, will make use of Ariel's utilities. To facilitate the handling of dependencies, I decided to package Ariel's utilities. 2) DEB package I prepared a DEB package which is now named `mediawiki-mwxml2sql_0.0.2-1_amd64.deb'. It builds correctly with `debuild' and with `pbuilder'. `Lintian' only complains that it does not close any ITP bug. 3) Patches I patched Ariel's source code and Makefile, so that man pages could be generated using `help2man'. I submitted the patch upstream, and Ariel graciously applied it. One more patch is under review (a few typos). 4) ITP I submitted an Intent-To-Package (ITP) bug to Debian, but have not yet received the bug number. Do you know anyone who would like to sponsor the package? Sincerely Yours, Kent On 5/28/13, Jeremy Baron &lt;jeremy(a)tuxmachine.com&gt; wrote: