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General

• Use ToCs everywhere.

Material

Packaging Guide

1. ["DanielHolbach/PackagingGuide/Introduction"]
   • explains a few tools.
     • Proposal: merge with ["MOTU/Recipes"]

2. ["DanielHolbach/PackagingGuide/GettingStarted"]

   • explains a few development packages.
     • Proposal: merge with ["MOTU/Recipes"]
   • pbuilder use.

     • FIX: should refer to pbuilder-dist and PbuilderHowto

3. ["DanielHolbach/PackagingGuide/Basic"]

   • packaging from scratch, explanation of most important debian/* files

     • Proposal: do introduction, but link to Debian policy counterparts
   • dh_make
     • FIX: -$(MAKE) -i distclean
   • CDBS
   • packaging mistakes

     • Proposal: merge in MOTU/Packages/CommonPackagingMistakes*

4. ["DanielHolbach/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems"]

   • Proposal: Merge in ["MOTU/School/PatchingSources"]
5. ["DanielHolbach/PackagingGuide/Updating"]
   • package updates
     • Proposal: Merge with ["MOTU/Recipes/PackageUpdate"]

     • FIX: link to ["FreezeExceptionProcess"], ["SponsorshipProcess"]

6. ["DanielHolbach/PackagingGuide/Ubuntu"]
   • Update

   • Proposal: Link from ["UbuntuDevelopment"]

   • Proposal: Merge with ["UbuntuPackagingChanges"]

7. ["DanielHolbach/PackagingGuide/Bugs"]

   • Proposal: Merge with ["HelpingWithBugs"], ["Bugs/Debian"], ["MOTU/Bugs"]

8. ["DanielHolbach/PackagingGuide/Appendix"]
   • links
     • Proposal: Merge with ["MOTU/Documentation"]
   • chroot docs
     • Proposal: Merge with other chroot docs
   • dh_make example files
   • list of dh_* tools
     • Proposal: automatically generate? (using editmoin)

MOTU Stuff

• ["MOTU/Packages/CommonPackagingMistakes"]
  • ToC
• ["MOTU/Packages/CommonPackagingMistakes/ChangingTheOrigTarball"]
  • Proposal: make it sound less 'policy'-like
• ["MOTU/Packages/CommonPackagingMistakes/DebianCopyright"]
  • Proposal: should go into ["DanielHolbach/PackagingGuide/Basic"]
• ["MOTU/Packages/DesktopFiles"]
  • contains tools (why source code on the wiki?), explanations, working list
  • Fix: Make sure people understand that .desktop files need to go upstream, else we don't get translations for them
  • Fix: needs pruning

  • No idea, where to put in the PackagingGuide

• ["MOTU/Packages/Merging"]
  • explanations, alternative approach, another approach, links, FIXME, merge tips
  • Fix: needs rigorous pruning and update
  • Proposal: Own Section
• ["MOTU/Packages/Packaging/Kubuntu]"
  • doc links, default values for default kde packages, patch systems, writing manpages, finding build-depends, building, versioning, .pot files stuff
  • Proposal: lots of pruning, keep Kubuntu related material, maybe manpage stuff too
• ["MOTU/Packages/Packaging/Tips"]
  • ...
• ["MOTU/Recipes"]
• ["MOTU/Recipes/CheckingLibrarySymbols"]
• ["MOTU/Recipes/Debdiff"]
• ["MOTU/Recipes/DebianWatch"]
• ["MOTU/Recipes/PackageUpdate"]
• ["MOTU/Recipes/UseBzrAndBzrBuildpackage"]
• ["MOTU/ReferencePackages"]
• ["MOTU/School/2005-12-10"]
• ["MOTU/School/Merging-and-Syncing"]
• ["MOTU/School/PackagingBasics"]
• ["MOTU/School/PackagingMistakes"]
• ["MOTU/School/PatchingSources"]
• ["MOTU/WikiCleanUp"]

• ["NewPackageRequirements"]