Bug#743303: Interested in helping co-maintain PulseAudio in Debian

Hi,

I’d like to help with Debian’s PulseAudio packaging on an ongoing basis,
potentially as a co-maintainer if that would be useful to the team.

I work professionally with audio systems and have been getting more
involved in Debian packaging. As a first concrete contribution, I tested
the proposed JACK2 Build-Depends change in Bug #1143540 against the current
PulseAudio Salsa packaging. I switched the build dependency from
libjack-dev to libjack-jackd2-dev, verified dpkg-checkbuilddeps, and
completed a full binary package build successfully on Debian 13 amd64 with
JACK 1.9.22 detected and pulseaudio-module-jack produced.

I’m happy to keep helping with bug triage, reproducing and testing fixes,
preparing packaging changes/MRs, and audio-integration issues around
JACK/ALSA/PipeWire. I can start with small, reviewable tasks and build
trust from there.

If the RFH is still current, I’d appreciate guidance on the most useful
next package-maintenance work to pick up.

Thanks,
Thomas Stephens
GitHub: https://github.com/tmsteph