• DebianPackagingHandbook

This project is in an early stage. Any contributions are welcome. Please note that all of the book content will be licensed under the MIT license. The current list of chapters is not meant to be the definitive one. Feel free to change them and their subsections and to add topics you consider somewhat useful. The coordination list is at packaging-handbook-project@lists.alioth.debian.org; join us, Debian hackers!

Index of contents

• Introduction

• Creating packages

• Patch Systems

• Checking packages

• Uploading packages

• Maintaining an archive

• Updating packages

• Maintaining a repository

• Using a version control system to manage packaging

• Appendix: Examples

• Appendix: Editors with useful features

• Appendix: Debian policies

• Appendix: Where to get help

• Appendix: Useful hints

• Contributors

Useful links

Some (useful) stuff about packaging:

• http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

• http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/

• http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/BuildingWithoutHelper

• http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/PackagingTutorial

• http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/BuildingTutorial

• http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/AdvancedBuildingTips

• http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts

• http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html

• http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-intro

• http://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian

• http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO.html

• http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/packagingguide/C/index.html (note: it will probably be moved to the wiki)

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/Packaging/Tips

• http://wiki.debian.org/SoftwarePackaging

• http://wiki.debian.org/PkgSplit

• http://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts

• http://cdbs.ueberalles.net/

• http://liw.iki.fi/liw/talks/debian-packaging-tutorial.pdf

• http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

• http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html

• http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/index.php?view=debian_linux

• http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/quilt.html

• http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ and package "apt-howto"

• http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/faq.html for debtags-related stuff

• http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses for licenses

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