Glossary of important term defined in Debian Policy

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glossary on logical order, bottom-up

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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]), virtual packages ([http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-virtual_pkg Policy:3.6]), essential package or 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-scope.html#s1.1 Policy:1.1], [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])

Section

Section [http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections Policy:2.4]