[Ubuntu Chicago] Packaging

[Rich Johnson]

On Saturday 21 April 2007, Andrew Bassett wrote:
| Today at the meeting, Tony was looking to do some packaging for some of his
| clients... I've found a real basic tutorial, and I figured I would sent
| this out to the list as well.
|
| https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowToBuildDebianPackagesFromScratch

Read Debian Policies first to kind of get an idea on how we do things. Now we 
don't do it exactly, but we do follow a lot of Debian's practices.
HTML: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
PDF:    http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/policy.pdf.gz

Then checkout the Debian New Maintainers Guide first, don't need to know it by 
heart, but grasp the concepts.
HTML: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html
PDF:    http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/maint-guide.en.pdf

Now it is time for the Ubuntu Packaging Guide
HTML: https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/packagingguide/C/index.html
PDF:    https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/pdf/ubuntu/C/packagingguide.pdf

NOTE: I am currently working for my MOTU membership with Ubuntu and currently 
work with a couple of mentors. I understand 85% of how everything works with 
Debian and Ubuntu now, I have 25+ packages in Ubuntu that I maintain now, 
plus a ton of uploads and REVU uploads. I have a couple of patches that have 
made their way into Debian recently as well. I have multiple pbuilder 
environments setup here (Breezy, Dapper, Edgy, Feisty, Sid, and Etch) and I 
am working with packages every day. So, with all of that nonsense being said, 
please feel free to contact me with questions, and also if you hop on IRC 
check out #ubuntu-motu. We will be running the MOTU schools again this year. 
Oh before I forget also look over the MOTU wiki at 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU. It is a lot of reading, but it is needed big 
time.

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Rich Johnson
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