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Debian New Maintainers' Guide

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 1998-2002 Josip Rodin.

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 Official Debian Developer
  • 1.3 Other information
• 2 First steps
  • 2.1 Choose your program
  • 2.2 Get the program, and try it out
  • 2.3 Package name and version
  • 2.4 Initial "debianization"
• 3 Modifying the source
  • 3.1 Installation in a subdirectory
  • 3.2 Differing libraries
• 4 Required stuff under debian/
  • 4.1 `control' file
  • 4.2 `copyright' file
  • 4.3 `changelog' file
  • 4.4 `rules' file
• 5 Other files under debian/
  • 5.1 README.Debian
  • 5.2 conffiles.ex
  • 5.3 cron.d.ex
  • 5.4 dirs
  • 5.5 docs
  • 5.6 emacsen-*.ex
  • 5.7 init.d.ex
  • 5.8 manpage.1.ex, manpage.sgml.ex
  • 5.9 menu.ex
  • 5.10 watch.ex
  • 5.11 ex.package.doc-base
  • 5.12 postinst.ex, preinst.ex, postrm.ex, prerm.ex
• 6 Building the package
  • 6.1 Complete rebuild
  • 6.2 Quick rebuild
  • 6.3 The debuild command
  • 6.4 The dpatch system
  • 6.5 Including orig.tar.gz for upload
• 7 Checking the package for errors
  • 7.1 The lintian and linda packages
  • 7.2 The mc command
  • 7.3 The debdiff command
  • 7.4 The interdiff command
  • 7.5 The debi command
  • 7.6 The pbuilder package
• 8 Uploading the package
  • 8.1 Uploading to the Debian archive
  • 8.2 Uploading to a private archive
• 9 Updating the package
  • 9.1 New Debian revision
  • 9.2 New upstream release (basic)
  • 9.3 New upstream release (realistic)
  • 9.4 The orig.tar.gz file
  • 9.5 The cvs-buildpackage command and similes
  • 9.6 Verifying package upgrades
• 10 Where to ask for help
• A Examples
  • A.1 Simple packaging example
  • A.2 Packaging example with the dpatch and the pbuilder

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Debian New Maintainers' Guide