Bug #1041

Comply to Debian Policy Manual

Added by Anonymous over 12 years ago.

Status:NewStart date:06/27/2012
Priority:NormalDue date:
Assignee:-% Done:

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Category:-Estimated time:17.00 hours
Target version:-

Description

We should try to comply to the basic key points of the (substantial) Debian Policy Manual:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

There are lot of recommendations and requirements regarding the structure and contents of debian packages, eg.
  • Package naming and versioning
  • Content (licensing information, readme, changelog, ...)
  • Required metadata (author, maintainer, ...)
  • Description of contained libraries (shlibs file)
  • and much, much more ...

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