<abstract>
This manual describes the policy requirements for the Debian
- GNU/Linux distribution. This includes the structure and
+ distribution. This includes the structure and
contents of the Debian archive and several design issues of
the operating system, as well as technical requirements that
each package must satisfy to be included in the distribution.
<p>
A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as
- <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</file> in the Debian GNU/Linux
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</file> in the Debian
distribution or on the World Wide Web at
<url id="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
name="the GNU General Public Licence">. You can also
<heading>Scope</heading>
<p>
This manual describes the policy requirements for the Debian
- GNU/Linux distribution. This includes the structure and
+ distribution. This includes the structure and
contents of the Debian archive and several design issues of the
operating system, as well as technical requirements that
each package must satisfy to be included in the
<heading>The Debian Archive</heading>
<p>
- The Debian GNU/Linux system is maintained and distributed as a
+ The Debian system is maintained and distributed as a
collection of <em>packages</em>. Since there are so many of
them (currently well over 15000), they are split into
<em>sections</em> and given <em>priorities</em> to simplify
</p>
<p>
- The <em>main</em> archive area forms the <em>Debian GNU/Linux
- distribution</em>.
+ The <em>main</em> archive area forms the <em>Debian distribution</em>.
</p>
<p>
<heading>Binary packages</heading>
<p>
- The Debian GNU/Linux distribution is based on the Debian
+ The Debian distribution is based on the Debian
package management system, called <prgn>dpkg</prgn>. Thus,
all packages in the Debian distribution must be provided
in the <tt>.deb</tt> file format.
<p>
The <tt>base system</tt> is a minimum subset of the Debian
- GNU/Linux system that is installed before everything else
+ system that is installed before everything else
on a new system. Only very few packages are allowed to form
part of the base system, in order to keep the required disk
usage very small.
identical behavior.
</p>
+ <p>
+ The following targets are required and must be implemented
+ by <file>debian/rules</file>: <tt>clean</tt>, <tt>binary</tt>,
+ <tt>binary-arch</tt>, <tt>binary-indep</tt>, and <tt>build</tt>.
+ These are the targets called by <prgn>dpkg-buildpackage</prgn>.
+ </p>
+
<p>
Since an interactive <file>debian/rules</file> script makes it
- impossible to auto-compile that package and also makes it
- hard for other people to reproduce the same binary
- package, all <em>required targets</em> must be
- non-interactive. At a minimum, required targets are the
- ones called by <prgn>dpkg-buildpackage</prgn>, namely,
- <em>clean</em>, <em>binary</em>, <em>binary-arch</em>,
- <em>binary-indep</em>, and <em>build</em>. It also follows
- that any target that these targets depend on must also be
+ impossible to auto-compile that package and also makes it hard
+ for other people to reproduce the same binary package, all
+ required targets must be non-interactive. It also follows that
+ any target that these targets depend on must also be
non-interactive.
</p>
<p>
- The targets are as follows (required unless stated otherwise):
+ The targets are as follows:
<taglist>
- <tag><tt>build</tt></tag>
+ <tag><tt>build</tt> (required)</tag>
<item>
<p>
The <tt>build</tt> target should perform all the
</p>
</item>
- <tag><tt>binary</tt>, <tt>binary-arch</tt>,
- <tt>binary-indep</tt>
+ <tag><tt>binary</tt> (required), <tt>binary-arch</tt>
+ (required), <tt>binary-indep</tt> (required)
</tag>
<item>
<p>
</p>
</item>
- <tag><tt>clean</tt></tag>
+ <tag><tt>clean</tt> (required)</tag>
<item>
<p>
This must undo any effects that the <tt>build</tt>
library directories of the dynamic linker (which are currently
<file>/usr/lib</file> and <file>/lib</file>) or a directory that is
listed in <file>/etc/ld.so.conf</file><footnote>
- These are currently
- <list compact="compact">
- <item>/usr/local/lib</item>
- <item>/usr/lib/libc5-compat</item>
- <item>/lib/libc5-compat</item>
- </list>
+ These are currently <file>/usr/local/lib</file> plus
+ directories under <file>/lib</file> and <file>/usr/lib</file>
+ matching the multiarch triplet for the system architecture.
</footnote>
must use <prgn>ldconfig</prgn> to update the shared library
system.
to get access to kernel information.</footnote>
</p>
</item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ On GNU/Hurd systems, the following additional
+ directories are allowed in the root
+ filesystem: <file>/hurd</file>
+ and <file>/servers</file>.<footnote>
+ These directories are used to store translators and as
+ a set of standard names for mount points,
+ respectively.
+ </footnote>
+ </p>
+ </item>
</enumlist>
-
</p>
+
<p>
The version of this document referred here can be
found in the <tt>debian-policy</tt> package or on <url
<p>
Packages in the <em>contrib</em> or <em>non-free</em> archive
areas should state in the copyright file that the package is not
- part of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and briefly explain
- why.
+ part of the Debian distribution and briefly explain why.
</p>
<p>
<prgn>dpkg</prgn> is a suite of programs for creating binary
package files and installing and removing them on Unix
systems.<footnote>
- <prgn>dpkg</prgn> is targeted primarily at Debian
- GNU/Linux, but may work on or be ported to other
- systems.
+ <prgn>dpkg</prgn> is targeted primarily at Debian, but may
+ work on or be ported to other systems.
</footnote>
</p>
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