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- Debian Organization
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The organization has many access points, and many people. This page
explains who to contact about a specific aspect of Debian, and tells
you who might respond.
- The People
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This is a comprehensive listing of all the Debian developers
associated with packages they maintain.
- Joining Debian
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The Debian Project consists of volunteers, and we are generally
looking for new developers who have some technical knowledge, an
interest in free software, and some free time. You too can help
Debian, just see the page linked above.
- Developer Database
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The database contains basic data accessible to everybody, and the
more private data available only for other developers to see.
Use the SSL version to access
it if you're going to log in.
Using the database, you can see the list of
project machines,
get any developer's GPG key,
change your password
or learn how to set up
mail forwarding for your Debian account.
If you are going to be using one of the Debian machines make
sure you have read the Debian Machine Usage Policies.
- The Constitution
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The document of utmost importance to the organization, describing
the organisational structure for formal decision-making in the
Project.
- Voting Information
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Everything you ever wanted to know on how we elected our leaders,
chosen our logos and in general, how we vote.
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- Releases
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This is the list of old and current releases, some of which
have detailed information on separate web pages.
You can also jump directly to the
stable release area, and
unstable distribution area.
- Different Architectures
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Debian runs on many kinds of computers (not only the
Intel-compatible ones!), and maintainers of our `ports' have some
useful web pages. Take a look, maybe you'll want to get another
weirdly named piece of metal for yourself.
- Release Critical Bugs
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This is a list of bugs which may cause the package to be removed
from the frozen distribution, or in some cases even cause a delay
in releasing the distribution. Bug reports with a severity higher
than `serious' qualify for the list -- be sure to fix such bugs
against your packages as soon as you can.
Also take a look at the list of bugs
more than two years old, and help us fix them.
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- Debian Policy Manual
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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.
In short, you need to read it.
There are several policy-related documents you might be
interested in, such as:
- Packaging Manual
The Packaging manual describes the technical aspects of
creating packages, and procedures in it are mostly required to
have proper packages.
- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
The FHS is a list of directories (or files) where things have
to be put, and compatibility with it is required by Policy
3.x.
- List of build-essential packages
The build-essential packages are packages you are expected to
have before you try to build any package, or a set of packages
that you don't have to include in your package's
Build-Depends line.
- Menu system
Programs that have an interface that need not be passed any
special command line arguments for normal operation should
have a menu entry registered.
- Emacs policy
The packages related to Emacs are expected to abide by their
own sub-policy documents.
- Java policy
The proposed equivalent for the above, for Java-related packages.
Take a look at
proposed updates to Policy, too.
- Lintian reports
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Lintian is a program that checks whether your package is
policy-comforming or not. You should use it before every upload;
there are reports on the aforementioned page about every package in
the distribution.
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Developers' Reference
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The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the
recommended procedures and the available resources for Debian
developers. Another must-read.
- Incoming directory
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Instead of the hassle of ssh-ing into ftp-master.debian.org to get
something from the incoming directory, you can now access it over
HTTP. Note: Due to the nature of Incoming, we do
not recommend mirroring it.
- Packages that need help
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Work-Needing and Prospective Packages, WNPP for short, is a list
of packages in need of new maintainers and prospective packages in
Debian. Check it out if you want to create, adopt or orphan packages.
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Debian is a large group, and as such, it consists of several
internal groups and projects. Here are the most prominent ones:
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