Applications Package Building
1. If you have no prior experience with Debian packages creation:
Read our preparation recommendations page
Read the Ubuntu Packaging Guide or the Debian Maintainer's Guide , if you are not on the mood for a long reading try our quick build packaging tutorial.
If your experience is only with "checkinstall" and/or "alien" built packages, you should get back to 1., checkinstall and alien based packages are not reliable enough for massive distribution.
2. If you already have experience with package building and need to understand our packaging work flow:
If you plan to work on a new package which is not listed there, make sure it follows the acceptable package policy
Package requests and work in progress for packages are tracked as bug reports on the launchpad Getdeb project .
- Search on "all bugs" if that package build was not rejected/dropped for some reason
- Once you start working on a package, please identify that you will be working on it on the bug report by assigning it to yourself and changing it's status to "In Progress"
- Set it it to "incomplete" if you need some feedback/help/information to continue working on the package
Once you package is built, follow the submit process by using the Automated Build System
- Once the packaged was uploaded and you got a successful build please change the bug status to Fix Committed"
- Publishers will be checking the post build queue, once it is verified and accepted it will be published on the www.getdeb.net front page
If you would like to support or get support on package building in general, or with problems on building specific packages, you should join to the Getdeb Packaging Support Group
Note: There are several apt sources that can be used to upgrade or create packages, checking this sources may save you duplicate work, some examples are: