Debian Developer's Reference

0.1 Table of contents

• 1 Applying to Become a Maintainer
  • 1.1 Getting started
  • 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer
  • 1.3 Debian Mentors
• 2 Internet Servers
  • 2.1 Mailing lists
  • 2.2 The master server
  • 2.3 The FTP servers
  • 2.4 The WWW servers
• 3 The Debian Archive
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 Sections
  • 3.3 Architectures
  • 3.4 Sub sections
  • 3.5 Packages
  • 3.6 Distribution directories
  • 3.7 Release code names
• 4 Package uploads
  • 4.1 Announcing new packages
  • 4.2 Uploading a package
  • 4.3 Announcing package uploads
  • 4.4 Interim releases
  • 4.5 Maintainer changes
• 5 Handling bug reports
  • 5.1 Reporting lots of bugs at once

0.2 Copyright

This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as /usr/doc/copyright/GPL in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution or on the World Wide Web at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.