new to packaging

[Martin Meredith]

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The Debian New Maintatiners Guide and the Developer Resources Page on
the wiki are good places to start reading.

http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperResources

If you're compiling for actual addition to the OS, not just for your own
use/for people to download from your website, it's best to build for
breezy, as that's the development version. But to make your package
official you need to speak to the MOTU

if you want to build for breezy, but still use hoary on your machine, I
suggest you use a chroot or pbuilder

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU

If you're building for your own use/download from your website - not
incl;usion into Ubuntu, then feel free to build in hoary (though I
suggest using a clean pbuild if you have any repositories other than the
main ubuntu repositories in your /etc/apt/sources.list)



Andreas Mussgiller wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> after years with SuSE linux I have resently converted to ubuntu and
> want to contribute. I have created my first packages but have a few
> questions:
> 
> 1) At the moment I run hoary. Should I update to breezy before uploading
>    my packages for revision?
> 
> 2) I once found a page which described the package naming conventions
>    but can not find it any more. Could somebody please point me in the
>    right direction?
> 
> 3) The package I am working on is version 2.x of libnjb
>    (libnjb.sourceforge.net). Due to major changes in the api 
>    versions <2.2 are incompatible with versions >=2.2. What would be a 
>    correct package name for versions <2.2 and version >=2.2? At the 
>    moment I use "libnjb2" for version 2.0 through <2.2 and "libnjb2.2"
>    for versions >=2.2.
> 
> More questions to come...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andreas 
> 

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