Edrx's Debian page
User stuff:
Main Debian page
Debian News
Debian Mailing List Archives
Essay: "Clueless users are bad for debian"
Debian mirrors
on using
netselect
to choose a mirror
The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ (local)
Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 For Intel x86 (local)
Some manuals:
Debian tutorial (incomplete, but excellent!)
Debian User Reference Manual
Debian GNU/Linux System Administrator's Manual
Debian GNU/Linux Network Administrator's Manual
Debian Documentation Project
http://www.debian.org/~elphick/manuals.html/
On making new Debian packages:
Debian New Maintainers' Guide
Debian Packaging Manual (local)
Sponsorship of future Debian developers
Steps on debianizing a new package (e.g.
mktclapp
):
Make it compile well.
Use
dh_make
to generate a
debian/
directory.
(
NMG
) (
NMG
)
Make it compile with
debian/rules binary
.
Here
is the makefile I used.
Adjust the control files in debian/
; see the mktclapp-3.8/debian/ directory in my
angg files
. (
NMG
) (
NMG
)
Install pgp and configure it
, as dpkg-buildpackage will need it to sign the package. Note that pgp2.6 ang pgp5 have different interfaces and slink's dpkg-buildpackage only deals well with 2.6's (and GPG is even harder).
Build the source debian package.
(
NMG
)
Run lintian.
Use pod to make a manpage!!!
Upload the (temporary) package to a public place. (
NMG
)
Ask for a sponsor...
Other advanced things:
Debian Developer's Corner
Debian Developer's Reference
dpkg Internals Manual
Debian New Maintainers' Guide
Debian Packaging Manual (local)
Debian Policy Manual (local)
Debian Programmers' Manual
Debiandoc-SGML manual
Debian's Bug Tracking System
Steve McIntyre's Debian CDs page
(
home
)