tools for AFTER you have .debs

Software States

• Debian Source Package
• Debian Binary Package
  • Component (main, contrib, non-free, non-US, updates, security)
  • Priority
  • Section
  • installed state - installed, half-installed, not-installed, unpacked, half-configured, config-files

Groups

• bug-filers

• users

• Debian Package Maintainers, Co-Maintainers & uploaders

• ftp-masters
• QA
• 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

Software & Systems

• dselect
• wajig
• grep-dctrl
• dpkg-awk
• reportbug
• dpkg

• apt

• apt-proxy or apt-cacher

• Package Tracking System (PTS)
• Bug Tracking System (BTS)
  • Release Critical mailing to debian-devel-announce@lists.debianNOSPAM.org
• Work Needed and Prospective Packages (WNPP)
• katie (was dinstall), ftp-master
  • update-excuses output

Input & Output Files/Formats

• sources file from an archive
• packages file from an archive
• source deb
• binary deb
• /etc/apt/sources.list file
• bug reports
• web pages

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

also see GNUDebianBuildProcess for tools BEFORE you have .debs

-- ?GrantBow - 03 March 2004