Debian Policy Manual - chapter 1
About this manual
This manual describes the policy requirements for the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution. This includes the structure and
contents of the Debian archive, several design issues of the
operating system, as well as technical requirements that
each package must satisfy to be included in the
distribution.
This manual does not describe the technical
mechanisms involved in package creation, installation, and
removal. This information can be found in the Debian
Packaging Manual and the Debian System
Administrators' Manual.
This document assumes familiarity with these other two
manuals. Unfortunately, the System Administrators'
Manual does not exist yet.
Much of the information presented in this manual will be
useful even when building a package which is to be
distributed in some other way or is for local use.
The current version of this document is always accessible from the
Debian FTP server at
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/manuals/debian-policy.html.tar.gz
or from the Debian WWW server at
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-policy/
In addition, this manual is distributed via the Debian package
debian-policy
As the Debian GNU/Linux system is continuously evolving this
manual is changed from time to time.
While the authors of this document tried hard not to include
any typos or other errors these still occur. If you discover
an error in this manual or if you want to tell us any
comments, suggestions, or critics please send an email to
the Debian Policy List,
debian-policy@lists.debian.org, or submit a
bug report against the debian-policy package.
Debian Policy Manual
- Copyright ©1996,1997,1998 Ian Jackson
and Christian Schwarz.
Contents; abstract; next.
version 2.5.0.0, 1998-10-30
Ian Jackson ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Christian Schwarz schwarz@debian.org
revised: David A. Morris bweaver@debian.org
The Debian Policy mailing List debian-policy@lists.debian.org