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Pragmatic Debian Packaging

This book is 95% completeLast updated on 2019-02-05
Moritz Lenz

If you ever tried to create Debian packages for your own software, but found the process daunting and opaque, this book is for you.

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This book teaches you how Debian Packages are structures, and different approaches to creating your own packages.

While the official Debian documentation focuses on creating packages that conform to all Debian policies, this work quickly gets you started on creating packages that work at all, and that work well in your environment.

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Moritz Lenz

Moritz Lenz is a software engineer and architect.

In the Perl community, he is well known for his contributions to the Perl 6 programming language, the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, related test suite, infrastructure and tools.

At his employer, noris network AG, he introduced Continuous Delivery for many in-house developed applications, and now wants to share his experience with the wider world.

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Table of Contents

1.Introduction

  1. 1.1Target Audience and Prerequisites
  2. 1.2Typographic Conventions
  3. 1.3Contents

2.Debian Packages in Context

  1. 2.1Package Managers, Repositories and the Pull Model
  2. 2.2Repository Mirrors and Package Signing
  3. 2.3Source Packages and Binary Packages
  4. 2.4Upstream
  5. 2.5dpkg, Apt and other Frontends
  6. 2.6Summary

3.What’s in a Debian Package?

  1. 3.1The File Name
  2. 3.2Contents
  3. 3.3Summary

4.Quick Package Construction with fpm

  1. 4.1Installing fpm
  2. 4.2Example Package Conversion
  3. 4.3Discussion

5.The Debian Build System

  1. 5.1A Minimal Package
  2. 5.2Build Sequences and Steps
  3. 5.3Installing Programs
  4. 5.4Adding Special Files
  5. 5.5Summary

6.Debian Packaging Quick Start

  1. 6.1Starting a Debian Project with dh_make
  2. 6.2Language Specific Package Creation Tools
  3. 6.3Summary

7.Multi-Package Builds

  1. 7.1Multi-Package Example
  2. 7.2Using dh_install
  3. 7.3Using Separate Build Targets
  4. 7.4Summary

8.Repository Management

  1. 8.1Repository Layout
  2. 8.2Repository Management Software
  3. 8.3Common Prerequisites
  4. 8.4Repository Management with aptly
  5. 8.5Summary

9.Package and Repository Integrity

  1. 9.1Integrity From the End User’s Perspective
  2. 9.2Integrity From the Debian Project’s Perspective
  3. 9.3Summary

10.That’s It!

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