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Appendix A
Introduction and scope of these
appendices
These appendices are taken essentially verbatim from the now deprecated Packaging Manual,
version 3.2.1.0. They are the chapters which are likely to be of use to package maintainers and
which have not already been included in the policy document itself. Most of these sections are
very likely not relevant to policy; they should be treated as documentation for the packaging
system. Please note that these appendices are included for convenience, and for historical
reasons: they used to be part of policy package, and they have not yet been incorporated into
dpkg documentation. However, they still have value, and hence they are presented here.
They have not yet been checked to ensure that they are compatible with the contents of policy,
and if there are any contradictions, the version in the main policy document takes precedence.
The remaining chapters of the old Packaging Manual have also not been read in detail to ensure
that there are not parts which have been left out. Both of these will be done in due course.
Certain parts of the Packaging manual were integrated into the Policy Manual proper, and
removed from the appendices. Links have been placed from the old locations to the new ones.
dpkg
is a suite of programs for creating binary package files and installing and removing them
on Unix systems.
1
The binary packages are designed for the management of installed executable programs (usu 
ally compiled binaries) and their associated data, though source code examples and documen 
tation are provided as part of some packages.
This manual describes the technical aspects of creating Debian binary packages (
.deb
files).
It documents the behaviour of the package management programs
dpkg
,
dselect
et al. and
the way they interact with packages.
It also documents the interaction between
dselect
's core and the access method scripts it uses
to actually install the selected packages, and describes how to create a new access method.
This manual does not go into detail about the options and usage of the package building and
installation tools. It should therefore be read in conjunction with those programs' man pages.
1
dpkg
is targeted primarily at Debian GNU/Linux, but may work on or be ported to other systems.






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