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Debian
- Debian Configuration Management Specification
(package: debian-policy)
- This manual describes the package configuration system used
by the debconf system, and defines the format of the template and
config files which are used.
Formats: [html] [text]
- Debian Constitution
(package: doc-debian)
- This document contains the complete text of Debian Project
Constitution (v1.3), in text format. Version 1.3 ratified on
September 24th, 2006. Supersedes version 1.2 ratified on October
29th, 2003. Supersedes Version 1.1 ratified on June 21st, 2003,
which itself supersedes Version 1.0 ratified on December 2nd, 1998
- Debian doc-base Manual
(package: doc-base)
- This manual describes what doc-base is and how it can be used to
manage online manuals on Debian systems.
Formats: [html] [text] [debiandoc-sgml]
- Debian Java FAQ
(package: java-common)
- The Debian Java FAQ provide answers to many
usual questions regarding the use of the Java programming
language in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. It
discusses availability of compilers, virtual machines,
libraries and applications as well as legal issues.
- Debian Java Policy (proposal)
(package: java-common)
- The Debian Java Policy (currently a proposal)
describes how Java packages are handled in Debian.
Formats: [html] [text]
- Debian mailing lists
(package: doc-debian)
- A comprehensive list of all mailing lists at lists.debian.org
- Debian Menu Policy Manual
(package: debian-policy)
- This manual describes the policy requirements for the Menu
system in the Debian distribution, describing the
hierarchical structure of the menu sections.
Formats: [html] [text] [debiandoc-sgml]
- Debian Menu System Manual
(package: menu)
- This manual describes the how packages can register themselves
in the Debian Menu, how window-managers can interface with
the Menu System to build up-to-date menu files, and how administrators
and users can control the generated menus.
Formats: [html] [text] [debiandoc-sgml]
- Debian Perl Policy Manual
(package: debian-policy)
- This manual describes the policy requirements for the Perl
system in the Debian distribution, describing the rules
regulating the building and installation of packages providing and
using Perl and Perl modules.
Formats: [html] [text] [debiandoc-sgml]
- Debian Policy Manual
(package: debian-policy)
- This manual describes the policy requirements for the Debian
distribution. This includes the structure and contents of
the Debian archive, several design issues of the operating system, as
well as technical requirements that each package must satisfy to be
included in the distribution.
Formats: [html] [text] [debiandoc-sgml] [pdf] [postscript]
- Debian Python Policy (Proposal)
(package: python)
- This document describes the packaging of Python within the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution and the policy requirements for packaged Python
programs and modules.
The Debian Python Policy has still a draft status.
Formats: [html] [text] [debiandoc-sgml]
- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) Version 2.3
(package: debian-policy)
- This standard defines where files should exist on UN*X
systems; in particular, on Debian systems
Formats: [html] [text] [pdf] [postscript]
- How to report a bug in Debian
(package: doc-debian)
- Description on how to properly report a bug in Debian GNU/Linux.
- install-docs Manual
(package: doc-base)
- A short manual for install-docs, a component of the package
doc-base. This program used by package maintainers to install their
documents into the Debian Documentation System.
- Machine-readable debian/copyright file
(package: debian-policy)
- Standard, machine-readable format for debian/copyright files within
packages, to facilitate automated checking and reporting of licenses for
packages and sets of packages.
Formats: [html] [text]
- Maintainer documentation for initramfs-tools
(package: initramfs-tools)
- This document describes the workflow of
the initramfs-tools maintainers.
- The Debian Linux Manifesto
(package: doc-debian)
- The Debian Manifesto was released in 1993 by Ian Murdock. The document
outlines his view for a brand new Linux distribution which would be developed
openly, describes why the world needed this distribution and which problems
would the distribution solved. This document is provided in order to document
Debian's history.
- The Debian Social Contract, and the Debian Free Software Guidelines
(package: doc-debian)
- This is the "social contract" (v1.1) we offer to the free software
community. The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFGS) are the set of
license conditions to be met for packages to be part of the Debian system.
The version 1.1 ratified on April 26, 2004. This version supersedes version
1.0, ratified on April 5, 1997.
- The Debian TeX sub-policy
(package: tex-common)
- Rules and information for packaging TeX add-on packages
(styles, fonts, viewers, etc.).
Formats: [html] [text] [pdf]
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