On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:45:12PM +0200, Brigitte Huebner wrote: > here ist a link I find really helpfull as an introduction to packaging: > http://www.schlittermann.de/deb-intern/dpkg/ > I's in German, but I wanted to share it with you anyway and I think > there are a few German-speaking people here.
The first 50-60% are very informative, I don't know whether such a nice overview exists in english. However, while the general policy and the internal structure of the Debian packages have not changed much, the last third or so talks about the actual packaging, which has seen dramatic improvements since 1997 with the introduction of e.g. debconf, debhelper, patch systems and cdbs. Further, the article is talking about obsolete standards at the end (FSSTND instead of FHS). Just as a word of warning. Michael
