<para>The Debian Med <ulinkurl="https://blends.debian.org/blends">Debian Pure Blend</ulink> is organised by <ulinkurl="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks">tasks</ulink>, that group packages around broad themes such as <ulinkurl="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/imaging">medical imaging</ulink> for instance. The tasks list programs that are already packaged in Debian as well as packages in preparation.</para>
<para>The tasks files are not hosted in the Debian Med repositories, but in the Debian Blends repository. Nevertheless, all members of the Debian Med project on the Alioth forge have write access to the Blends subversion repository. You can easily check out its sources with the command <command>debcheckout -a debian-med</command>.</para>
<para>The tasks files are not hosted in the Debian Med repositories, but in the Debian Blends repository. Nevertheless, all members of the Debian Med project on Salsa have write access to the Blends Git repository. You can easily check out its sources with the command <command>debcheckout -a debian-med</command>.</para>
<para>The syntax of the tasks files is very similar to Debian control files, and described in the <ulinkurl="https://blends.debian.org/blends/ch08.html#edittasksfiles">Debian Blends website</ulink>.</para>
<para>Packages hosted in our Subversion repository, that have been modified but not uploaded must use <literal>UNRELEASED</literal> as a distribution name. This can be done automatically by declaring <literal><varname>DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC</varname>=<replaceable>changelog</replaceable></literal> in <filename>~/.devscripts</filename> and using <command>dch</command>.</para>
<para>Packages hosted in our Git repository, that have been modified but not uploaded must use <literal>UNRELEASED</literal> as a distribution name. This can be done automatically by declaring <literal><varname>DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC</varname>=<replaceable>changelog</replaceable></literal> in <filename>~/.devscripts</filename> and using <command>dch</command>.</para>