Dpkg Team

Task description

The team is in charge of the dpkg package manager. It maintains it and develops new features.

Infrastructure

• Alioth Project: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/dpkg

• Source code: git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/dpkg/dpkg.git (Web interface)

• Functional test suite: git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/dpkg/dpkg-tests.git (Web interface)

• Unit test suite code coverage: http://dpkg.alioth.debian.org/coverage/

• Package Tracker: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dpkg

• Packages autobuilt from git: Master branch

Interacting with the team

• Development mailing list: <debian-dpkg  AT lists DOT debian DOT org> (subscribe form)

• Request tracker: default view / by program / by class of problem / old view

• Public IRC channel: there is #debian-dpkg on irc.debian.org (OFTC) but none of the dpkg maintainers are there, thus please use the mailing list or the bug tracking system.

Usual roles

• GuillemJover (guillem) is the primary developer.

• Many other translators have commit access to maintain their translations.
• Several other contributors provide occasional patches/branches.

Get involved

See the Contribute page, and check the following links:

• coding style

• GitUsage: recommendations for handling the Git repository

Documentation

• Frequently Asked Questions.

• Source package (.dsc) support in software.

• Binary package (.deb) support in software.

• Downstream: list of downstream distributions shipping dpkg.

• Triggers HOWTO by Sean Finney.

• libdpkg API documentation.

• VCS statistics.

• Bug graphics and statistics.

Projects tracked on the wiki

• Current projects:

  • /RoadMap

  • ?/CompatSymlinks

  • ?/StringsReview: i18ned strings review/uniformization

• Proposals:

  • ?/Proposals/ConffileDatabase

  • ?DpkgDebconfIntegration

• Old projects:

  • DpkgV2 specs.

  • dpkg 2.0.

  • ?/PerlAPICleanup: what we want to do to finalize the perl API.

  • /DebianRules: a problem to solve.

  • Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo

  • Projects/ImprovedDpkgShlibdeps

  • Projects/DebSrc3.0

• ReviewMergeQueue: patches/branches to be reviewed, updated and merged.

Historic

Announcements

• dpkg CVS warning (Re: Installed tiff 3.5.4-4 (source i386))

• dpkg 1.7.0 warning

• new features in dpkg 1.7.1

• transition from suidmanager to dpkg-statoverride

• dpkg 1.9.0 release

• Bits from the dpkg maintainer (dpkg 1.13.x upload to experimental)

• Bits from the dpkg maintainer (dpkg 1.10.18.1 to 1.13.9)

• New dpkg in experimental (dpkg 1.14.7~newshlib)

• Misc development news (dpkg 1.14.6 to 1.14.8)

• Important changes in dpkg 1.14.18 in sid

• Bits from the dpkg team (dpkg 1.13.11.1 to 1.15.6.1)

• Recent changes in dpkg (dpkg 1.15.6 to 1.15.7)

• Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

• Important information regarding upcoming dpkg 1.16.2 upload

Sprints, Summits

• Embedded Debian work session (Extremadura 2006)

• dpkg summit (around 2007, never happened)

• Bootstrap/Crossbuild Sprint (Paris 2014)

VCS

• When we switched to git, we tried to integrate as much history as possible. You'll find the data and scripts used for that purpose here.

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