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Debian New Maintainers' Guide

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This package contains the Debian New Maintainers' Guide.

This document tries to describe building of a Debian package to the common Debian user, and wannabe developer. It uses pretty common language, and it's well covered with working examples.

The document contains these chapters:
* 1 Getting started The Right Way
* 2 First steps
* 3 Modifying the source
* 4 Required files under debian directory
* 5 Other files under debian directory
* 6 Building the package
* 7 Checking the package for errors
* 8 Uploading the package
* 9 Updating the package
Home Page: http://www.us.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide
Interface: Document
Associated Programs
debian-policy Debian Policy Manual and related documents
developers-reference guidelines and information for Debian developers
devscripts scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
dh-make tool that converts source archives into Debian package source
doc-base utilities to manage online documentation
dput Debian package upload tool
dupload utility to upload Debian packages
fakeroot Gives a fake root environment
lintian Debian package checker
pbuilder personal package builder for Debian packages
quilt Tool to work with series of patches
Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
stable 1.2.25 1.2.25
testing 1.2.30 1.2.30
sid 1.2.31 1.2.31

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
hardy 1.2.11 1.2.11
lucid 1.2.14 1.2.14
oneiric 1.2.27 1.2.27
precise 1.2.27 1.2.27
quantal 1.2.29 1.2.29

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