components, required and somewhat related - BEFORE you have .debs

Software States

see Debian Policy Manual.

• Upstream source
• Debian Source Package
  • Build-depends
• Debian Binary Package
  • Essential - boolean, default is no/unset, see Policy ref
  • Architecture - policy ref
  • Section (main, contrib, non-free, non-US/main, non-US/contrib, non-US/non-free)
  • updates, security
  • Subsection (admin, base, comm, contrib, devel, doc, editors, electronics, embedded, games, gnome graphics, hamradio, interpreters, kde, libs, libdevel, mail, math, misc, net, news, non-US, non-free, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, python science, shells, sound, tex, text, utils, web, x11)
  • Priority (required, important, standard, optional, extra) policy ref
  • a particular set of packages is called the Base System
• Source and binary package upload example from new maintainers guide
  • gentoo_0.9.12.orig.tar.gz
  • gentoo_0.9.12-1.dsc
  • gentoo_0.9.12-1.diff.gz
  • gentoo_0.9.12-1_i386.deb
  • gentoo_0.9.12-1_i386.changes

Groups

• software author(s)
• Debian Package Maintainers, Co-Maintainers & uploaders
• ftp-masters
• buildd admins - It seems the two primary buildd admins are Ryan Murray and James Troup.
• QA
• bug-filers
• porters for supported platforms (i386, m69k, sparc, alpha, powerpc, arm, mips, mipsel, hppa, ia64, s390)
• porters for unreleased platforms (amd64, sh)
• porters of non-linux platforms (hurd-i386, netbsd-i386, netbsd-alpha, freebsd-i386)
• International translation providers
• system administrators
• users

Build, Debian Archive & Debian Systems Software

• wanna-build available in the buildd CVS
• buildd CVS, statistics
• quinn-diff with anon-CVS
  • July 2002 (samosa.sh ?) hurd output http://buildd.debian.org/quinn-diff/output/unstable/by_priority-hurd-i386.txt
  • email reference
• katie (was dinstall), ftp-master
  • update-excuses output
• andrea, see wanna-build for source (no longer at http://buildd.debian.org/andrea/ )
• madison from developer's reference
• fakeroot
• sbuild
• pbuilder
• turtle reference
• Package Tracking System (PTS)
• Bug Tracking System (BTS)
  • Release Critical mailing to debian-devel-announce@lists.debianNOSPAM.org
• Work Needed and Prospective Packages (WNPP)
• Lintian
• apt-proxy or apt-cacher
• reportbug
• dpkg
• apt
• grep-dctrl
• dpkg-awk

also see appendix A Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools in the Developer's Reference.

Input & Output Files/Formats

• sources file from an archive
• packages file from an archive
• log from build process
• lintian report
• debcheck report
• upstream related files (tar.gz, dsc SampleDscFile)
• source deb
• binary deb
• /etc/apt/sources.list file
• bug reports
• web pages
• location to upload files for incoming: ftp-master.debian.org:/org/ftp.debian.org/incoming/ or via ftp to /pub/UploadQueue/

Inputs	1	2	3	4
	X				1
		X			2
			X		3
				X	4
					Outputs

also see GNUDebianPackages for information on what you can do AFTER you have .debs.

-- ?GrantBow - 03 March 2004