Edrx's Debian page

User stuff:

• Main Debian page
• Debian News
• Debian Mailing List Archives
• Essay: "Clueless users are bad for debian"
• Debian mirrors
• on using netselect to choose a mirror
• The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ (local)
• Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 For Intel x86 (local)

Some manuals:

• Debian tutorial (incomplete, but excellent!)
• Debian User Reference Manual
• Debian GNU/Linux System Administrator's Manual
• Debian GNU/Linux Network Administrator's Manual
• Debian Documentation Project
• http://www.debian.org/~elphick/manuals.html/

On making new Debian packages:

• Debian New Maintainers' Guide
• Debian Packaging Manual (local)
• Sponsorship of future Debian developers
• Steps on debianizing a new package (e.g. mktclapp):
  • Make it compile well.
  • Use dh_make to generate a debian/ directory. (NMG) (NMG)
  • Make it compile with debian/rules binary. Here is the makefile I used.
  • Adjust the control files in debian/; see the mktclapp-3.8/debian/ directory in my angg files. (NMG) (NMG)
  • Install pgp and configure it, as dpkg-buildpackage will need it to sign the package. Note that pgp2.6 ang pgp5 have different interfaces and slink's dpkg-buildpackage only deals well with 2.6's (and GPG is even harder).
  • Build the source debian package. (NMG)
  • Run lintian.
  • Use pod to make a manpage!!!
  • Upload the (temporary) package to a public place. (NMG)
  • Ask for a sponsor...

Other advanced things:

• Debian Developer's Corner
• Debian Developer's Reference
• dpkg Internals Manual
• Debian New Maintainers' Guide
• Debian Packaging Manual (local)
• Debian Policy Manual (local)
• Debian Programmers' Manual
• Debiandoc-SGML manual
• Debian's Bug Tracking System
• Steve McIntyre's Debian CDs page

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