On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:44:49PM +0200, Marcus Denker wrote:
> 
> It would be really great to have Squeak as official Debian packages... 
> somehow I didn't manage to become a developer. I tried as soon as the first
> Squeak debs were made (1998, maybe). And after 1.5 Years of waiting I got
> an answer from someone who wanted to guide me trough the
> "new-maintainer-process". Doing everything he wanted (like sending a signed 
> copy of my ID... etc...) the result was: You need to meet some other maintainer 
> before we even consider to allow you to contribute. 
> I just wanted to start looking around for some developer...
> 

I gather the new maintainer process was seriously backlogged, but
there is a new one in place now.  So things are moving faster, though
the security requirements may not have changed.  There are probably
Debian developers near you--I think Germany has quite a few.