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### Importing into Salsa
#### Creating a Git repository if you can't find it on Salsa yet
If you want to create a Git repository from a package that is not maintained in Git yet, you can do
```
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See also: [Petter Reinholdtsen's blog post about migrating packages to Salsa](http://www.hungry.com/\~pere/blog/More_than_200_orphaned_Debian_packages_moved_to_git__216_to_go.html)
#### Getting more information about a package
For sure its recommended to check the [Debian Package Tracker](https://tracker.debian.org). There is an interesting command line alternative which is used by the Debian Perl Team inside the `pkg-perl-tools` package. You might like to try
```
dpt prepare
```
inside a packaging tree.
### LowThresholdNmu and LowThresholdAdoption
It might be interesting to check whether the maintainer of some package is on [LowThresholdNmu](https://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu) or [LowThresholdAdoption](https://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdAdoption) list.
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