Author: tille
Date: 2012-03-13 13:58:53 +0000 (Tue, 13 Mar 2012)
New Revision: 9987
Modified:
trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Commit a some "Newcomer guidelines for building proper Debian packages"
paragraph which somehow resided uncommited on my harddisk for a longer time
Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2012-03-13 09:55:40 UTC (rev
9986)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2012-03-13 13:58:53 UTC (rev
9987)
@@ -520,6 +520,14 @@
</sect1>
<sect1 id="packaging">
<title>Packaging</title>
+ <sect2 id="packagingguidelines">
+ <title>Newcomer guidelines for building proper Debian
packages</title>
+ <para>Some newcomers tend to go the create DEBIAN dir,
move files around and `dpkg-deb -b` way to create
+ Debian packages. Short answer: Forget about this. The
only way to the official Debian mirror leads
+ via proper source packages. The right way to build
Debian packages is described in
+ <ulink
url="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/";>Debian New Maintainers'
Guide</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
<sect2 id="itp">
<title>Announcing intent to package</title>
<para>If you intent to work on a Debian package you
should follow
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