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2017-06-25
Abstract
This manual describes the policy requirements for the Debian distribution. This includes the structure and contents of the Debian archive and several design issues of the operating system, as well as technical requirements that each package must satisfy to be included in the distribution.
Table of Contents
debian/changelog
debian/copyright
debian/rules
debian/substvars
debian/watch
debian/files
debian/README.source
debian/control
DEBIAN/control
.dsc
.changes
Source
Maintainer
Uploaders
Changed-By
Section
Priority
Package
Architecture
Essential
Depends
,
Pre-Depends
, Recommends
,
Suggests
, Breaks
,
Conflicts
, Provides
,
Replaces
, Enhances
Standards-Version
Version
Description
Distribution
Date
Format
Urgency
Changes
Binary
Installed-Size
Files
Closes
Homepage
Checksums-Sha1
and
Checksums-Sha256
DM-Upload-Allowed
Package-List
Package-Type
Dgit
Depends
,
Recommends
, Suggests
,
Enhances
, Pre-Depends
Breaks
Conflicts
Provides
Replaces
Build-Depends
,
Build-Depends-Indep
,
Build-Depends-Arch
,
Build-Conflicts
,
Build-Conflicts-Indep
,
Build-Conflicts-Arch
Built-Using
init.d
scripts
init.d
scripts
debian/files
.changes
upload control file