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Debian New Maintainers' Guide

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 1998-2002 Josip Rodin
Copyright © 2005-2010 Osamu Aoki
Copyright © 2010 Craig Small
Copyright © 2010 Raphaël Hertzog

This document may be used under the terms the GNU General Public License version 2 or higher.

This document was made using with these two documents as examples:

Making a Debian Package (AKA the Debmake Manual), copyright © 1997 Jaldhar Vyas.

The New-Maintainer's Debian Packaging Howto, copyright © 1997 Will Lowe.

Contents

• 1 Getting started The Right Way
  • 1.1 Programs you need for development
  • 1.2 Basic terminology
  • 1.3 Official Debian Developer
  • 1.4 Where to ask for help
• 2 First steps
  • 2.1 Choose your program
  • 2.2 Get the program, and try it out
  • 2.3 Free portable programs
  • 2.4 Package name and version
  • 2.5 Initial Debian package
• 3 Modifying the source
  • 3.1 Set up quilt
  • 3.2 Fixing upstream bug
  • 3.3 Installation of files to the destination
  • 3.4 Differing libraries
• 4 Required files under the debian directory
  • 4.1 control file
  • 4.2 copyright file
  • 4.3 changelog file
  • 4.4 rules file
    • 4.4.1 Targets of rules file
    • 4.4.2 Default rules file
    • 4.4.3 Customization of rules file
• 5 Other files under the debian directory
  • 5.1 README.Debian file
  • 5.2 compat file
  • 5.3 conffiles file
  • 5.4 package.cron.* files
  • 5.5 dirs file
  • 5.6 package.doc-base file
  • 5.7 docs file
  • 5.8 emacsen-* file
  • 5.9 package.examples file
  • 5.10 package.init and package.default files
  • 5.11 install file
  • 5.12 package.info file
  • 5.13 {package.|source/}lintian-overrides files
  • 5.14 manpage.* files
    • 5.14.1 manpage.1.ex file
    • 5.14.2 manpage.sgml.ex file
    • 5.14.3 manpage.xml.ex file
  • 5.15 package.manpages file
  • 5.16 menu file
  • 5.17 NEWS file
  • 5.18 {post|pre}{inst|rm} files
  • 5.19 TODO file
  • 5.20 watch file
  • 5.21 source/format file
  • 5.22 source/local-options file
  • 5.23 patches/* files
• 6 Building the package
  • 6.1 Complete (re)build
  • 6.2 Autobuilder
  • 6.3 Including orig.tar.gz for upload
  • 6.4 debuild command
  • 6.5 pbuilder package
  • 6.6 git-buildpackage command and similars
  • 6.7 Quick rebuild
• 7 Checking the package for errors
  • 7.1 Verifying package for install
  • 7.2 Verifying package for maintainer scripts
  • 7.3 lintian package
  • 7.4 debc command
  • 7.5 debdiff command
  • 7.6 interdiff command
  • 7.7 mc command
• 8 Uploading the package
  • 8.1 Uploading to the Debian archive
  • 8.2 Skipped uploads
• 9 Updating the package
  • 9.1 New Debian revision
  • 9.2 Inspection of the new upstream release
  • 9.3 New upstream release
  • 9.4 Updating the packaging style
  • 9.5 Reminders for updating packages

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