The GNOME packaging team has been in charge of a large part of GNOME packages in Debian since the end of 2003, and is now handling almost all packages of the GNOME desktop platform.

In this talk, we will present the way the team works, and the tools we are using to work together : subversion, IRC, cdbs, gnome-pkg-tools.

Then, some maintainers will show the Debian specifities of some packages, subsystems or branding, and how to integrate well with them. This includes hints about building a GNOME-based package, tricks for children distributions, and how to customize GNOME for a whole site.