• Diff for "DebianPolicy"

Introduction

Although it sounds a lot like bureaucracy, it is the Debian Policy Manual that makes Debian the best operating system.

It describes what packages should contain, how they should be configured, and generally how packages fit together to create a Debian system.

The Debian package debian-policy will install the Policy document in the directory /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/, in various formats.

Related documents

Official related documents

See paragraph 1.4 of the debian policy

• The FilesystemHierarchyStandard. It is the most important one. Debian needs to comply with it. It makes sure you can always find files where you expect them to be.

• The virtual-package-names-list.txt

• The menu policy

• The mime policy

• The perl policy

• The debconf specification

• The emacs policy

Other documents

• developers reference

• The Python policy

History

• version 3
  • version 3.9.0.0, 2010-06-28
  • version 3.8.0.0, 2008-06-04
  • version 3.7.0.0, 2006-04-26
  • version 3.6.0.0, 2003-07-09

More information

Development

See the Debian Policy team description for information on how Policy is developed and changed.

Information

• http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-policy.html