Debian CLI Policy (DRAFT)

Abstract

This document lays out basic policies regarding packaging Mono, other CLRs and CLI based applications/libraries on Debian GNU/Linux.

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 2005 Mirco Bauer and Brandon Hale.

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/share/common-licenses/GPL in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution or on the World Wide Web at the GNU General Public Licence. You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

Contents

• 1 Policy History
• 2 Used Terms
• 2.1 CLI - Common Language Infrastructure
• 2.2 CLR - Common Language Runtime
• 2.3 CIL - Common Intermediate Language
• 2.4 ".NET" or long "Microsoft .NET Framework"
• 3 Library Package Naming
• 4 Build Dependencies
• 4.1 cli-common
• 5 File Permissions
• 6 Migrating Existing Packages
• 7 Mono Specifics
• 7.1 Naming
• 7.2 DLL Maps
• 7.3 MONO_SHARED_DIR

Debian CLI Policy (DRAFT)