Glossary of important term defined in Debian Policy

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Debian Glossary

glossary on logical order, bottom-up

From package to archive

Package

One of binary package (default) ([http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html Policy:3]), source package ([http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html Policy:4]) or (avoid) also upstream package ([http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-versions Policy:3.2], use instead upstream source), Debian package ([http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version Policy:5.6.12])

Source Package

source package ([http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html Policy:4]). It contains upstream sources ... see dpkg-sources(1) Two types: non-native (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#f15 Policy:4.4]) or not Debian-native ([http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-changelogs Policy:12.7]) and native (dpkg-sources(1))

Binary Package

binary package ([http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html Policy:3])