Yes. Yes they are.

I'm crap at packaging. My mind has never really grokked all the packaging things. Also, I make packages, and then they quickly get out of date as I continue to work on the upstream part, and so then there's this big hill to get over when I actually need to package it again.

Enter source package recipes. It's what Aaron Bentley and I have been working on for the past 6 months. Basically, take two bzr branches, put them together using a recipe, and make a source package (and eventually a binary package) out of them.

My first recipe got built into a binary package two days ago, but I just noticed it.

Now I want to package everything.

This blog post is solely to commemorate the day that I first contributed to Ubuntu packaging. Today, Daniel Holbach uploaded the fix to Bug #516744, which is a Tahoe 1.6 update for Lucid. I did the update, and there was only one real change that Daniel had to make.

So yes, this makes me happy. Carry on.