Debian Hamradio Maintainer’s Guide

Contents:

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Joining the team as a packager
  • 1.2. Assisting the team with translations
• 2. Packaging
  • 2.1. Newcomer guidelines
  • 2.2. Announcing intention to package
  • 2.3. Team Policy
• 3. Version Control System
  • 3.1. Anonymous access to git repositories
  • 3.2. Repository layout
  • 3.3. Importing an existing source package
  • 3.4. Importing an existing git repository
  • 3.5. Creating a new git repository for a new package
  • 3.6. Updating a package already in the team git
  • 3.7. Testing package builds with git-buildpackage
  • 3.8. Using git-buildpackage and git-pbuilder for building packages
  • 3.9. Final build and upload
  • 3.10. Backports and updates to stable distributions
  • 3.11. Tracking commit notifications
  • 3.12. Further Reading
• 4. QA Tools
  • 4.1. Debian Developer’s Package Overview
  • 4.2. Debian Maintainer Dashboard
  • 4.3. Debian Package Tracker
  • 4.4. Lintian

Changelog

Version 0.7

• Refer to current stable as “bullseye”

• Replace QA reference to PET with Debian Package Tracker

Version 0.6

• Add subsection regarding /var/ax25

Version 0.1

• Initial version by Iain R. Learmonth <irl@debian.org>

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Copyright 2015 (C) Iain R. Learmonth <irl@debian.org>.

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