Debian Policy Manual

0.1 Abstract

0.2 Table of contents

• 1 About this manual
  • 1.1 Scope
  • 1.2 New versions of this document
  • 1.3 Feedback
• 2 The Debian Archive
  • 2.1 Package copyright and sections
  • 2.2 Priorities
  • 2.3 Binary packages
  • 2.4 Source packages
• 3 The Operating System
  • 3.1 Filesystem hierarchy
  • 3.2 Users and groups
  • 3.3 System run levels
  • 3.4 Cron jobs
  • 3.5 Console messages
  • 3.6 Menus
  • 3.7 Keyboard configuration
  • 3.8 Environment variables
• 4 Files
  • 4.1 Binaries
  • 4.2 Libraries
  • 4.3 Shared libraries
  • 4.4 Scripts
  • 4.5 Symbolic links
  • 4.6 Device files
  • 4.7 Configuration files
  • 4.8 Log files
  • 4.9 Permissions and owners
• 5 Customized programs
  • 5.1 Architecture specification strings
  • 5.2 Daemons
  • 5.3 Editors and pagers
  • 5.4 Web servers and applications
  • 5.5 Mail transport agents
  • 5.6 News system configuration
  • 5.7 Programs for the X Windows system
  • 5.8 Emacs lisp programs
  • 5.9 Games
• 6 Documentation
  • 6.1 Manual pages
  • 6.2 Info documents
  • 6.3 Additional documentation
  • 6.4 Preferred documentation formats
  • 6.5 Copyright information
  • 6.6 Examples
  • 6.7 Changelog files

0.3 Copyright

This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as /usr/doc/copyright/GPL in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution or on the World Wide Web at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.