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Re: Debian Packaging Guide/Tutorial



On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:25:18PM -0500, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote:
> I've been playing around with packaging up some of my projects for
> debian. I have gotten it to work, but I'm still having problems
> understanding some of the features that are available (for instance it
> took me forever to learn about the .config file).
> 
> Is there any kind of tutorial or guide that explains all of the debian
> packaging system, which files do what, how to make upgrades go smoothly
> wihtout always removing then installing the package? Any kind of help
> would be appreciated thanks.

http://www.debian.org/devel/ has lots of stuff for reading. Including
the policy and the maintainer guide.


Cheers,
Michael
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