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components, required and somewhat related - BEFORE you have .debs
### <a name="Software_States"> Software States </a>
see [Debian Policy Manual](http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/).
* Upstream source
* Debian Source Package
* Build-depends
* Debian Binary Package
* Essential - boolean, default is no/unset, see Policy [ref](http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Essential)
* Architecture - policy [ref](http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Architecture)
* Section (main, contrib, non-free, non-US/main, non-US/contrib, non-US/non-free)
* updates, security
* Subsection (admin, base, comm, contrib, devel, doc, editors, electronics, embedded, games, gnome graphics, hamradio, interpreters, kde, libs, libdevel, mail, math, misc, net, news, non-US, non-free, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, python science, shells, sound, tex, text, utils, web, x11)
* Priority (required, important, standard, optional, extra) policy [ref](http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities)
* a particular set of packages is called the [Base System](http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s3.7)
* Source and binary package upload example from [new maintainers guide](http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html)
* gentoo\_0.9.12.orig.tar.gz
* gentoo\_0.9.12-1.dsc
* gentoo\_0.9.12-1.diff.gz
* gentoo\_0.9.12-1\_i386.deb
* gentoo\_0.9.12-1\_i386.changes
### <a name="Groups"> Groups </a>
* software author(s)
* Debian Package Maintainers, Co-Maintainers & uploaders
* ftp-masters
* buildd admins - It seems the two primary buildd admins are Ryan Murray and James Troup.
* QA
* bug-filers
* porters for supported platforms (i386, m69k, sparc, alpha, powerpc, arm, mips, mipsel, hppa, ia64, s390)
* porters for unreleased platforms (amd64, sh)
* porters of non-linux platforms (hurd-i386, netbsd-i386, netbsd-alpha, freebsd-i386)
* International translation providers
* system administrators
* users
### <a name="Build_Debian_Archive_amp_Debian_"> Build, Debian Archive & Debian Systems Software </a>
* wanna-build available in the buildd [CVS](http://m68k.debian.org/buildd/getting.html)
* buildd [CVS](http://m68k.debian.org/buildd/getting.html), [statistics](http://buildd.debian.org/stats/)
* [quinn-diff](http://buildd.debian.org/quinn-diff/) with anon-CVS
* July 2002 (samosa.sh ?) hurd output [http://buildd.debian.org/quinn-diff/output/unstable/by\_priority-hurd-i386.txt](http://buildd.debian.org/quinn-diff/output/unstable/by_priority-hurd-i386.txt)
* email [reference](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2000/debian-hurd-200012/msg00168.html)
* [katie](http://ftp-master.debian.org) (was dinstall), ftp-master
* update-excuses [output](http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html)
* andrea, see wanna-build for source (no longer at <http://buildd.debian.org/andrea/> )
* [madison](http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-resources.en.html#s-madison) from developer's reference
* [fakeroot](http://packages.qa.debian.org/fakeroot)
* [sbuild](http://packages.qa.debian.org/sbuild)
* [pbuilder](http://packages.qa.debian.org/pbuilder)
* turtle [reference](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2001/debian-hurd-200103/msg00328.html)
* [Package Tracking System](http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-200201/msg00011.html) (PTS)
* [Bug Tracking System](http://bugs.debian.org) (BTS)
* Release Critical mailing to <debian-devel-announce@lists.debianNOSPAM.org>
* [Work Needed and Prospective Packages](http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/) (WNPP)
* [Lintian](http://lintian.debian.org/)
* [apt-proxy](http://packages.qa.debian.org/apt-proxy) or [apt-cacher](http://packages.qa.debian.org/apt-cacher)
* [reportbug](http://packages.qa.debian.org/reportbug)
* [dpkg](http://packages.qa.debian.org/dpkg)
* [apt](http://packages.qa.debian.org/apt)
* grep-dctrl
* dpkg-awk
also see appendix A [Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools](http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ap-tools.en.html) in the Developer's Reference.
### <a name="Input_amp_Output_Files_Formats"> Input & Output Files/Formats </a>
* sources file from an archive
* packages file from an archive
* log from build process
* lintian report
* debcheck report
* upstream related files (tar.gz, dsc [[SampleDscFile]])
* source deb
* binary deb
* /etc/apt/sources.list file
* bug reports
* web pages
* location to upload files for incoming: ftp-master.debian.org:/org/ftp.debian.org/incoming/ or via ftp to /pub/UploadQueue/
<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Inputs</strong></th>
<th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>1</strong></th>
<th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>2</strong></th>
<th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>3</strong></th>
<th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>4</strong></th>
</tr>
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<th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>1</strong></th>
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<th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>2</strong></th>
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<th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>3</strong></th>
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<th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>4</strong></th>
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<th align="right" bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Outputs</strong></th>
</tr>
</table>
also see [[GNUDebianPackages]] for information on what you can do AFTER you have .debs.
-- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 03 March 2004
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