or directly follow this <aclass="ulink"href="https://salsa.debian.org/groups/med-team/-/group_members/request_access"target="_top">link</a>.
Remember that you must have an account on Salsa.debian.org before requesting
membership (see <aclass="ulink"href="https://salsa.debian.org/users/sign_in"target="_top">here</a>
to request an account on Salsa.debian.org).</p></div><divclass="sect2"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h3class="title"><aid="readings"></a>Essential readings</h3></div></div></div><divclass="itemizedlist"><ulclass="itemizedlist"style="list-style-type: disc; "><liclass="listitem"><p>The <aclass="ulink"href="https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/"target="_top">Debian Policy</a>: packages must conform to it.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p>The <aclass="ulink"href="https://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/"target="_top">Developers Reference</a>: details best packaging practices.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p>The <aclass="ulink"href="https://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/"target="_top">New Maintainer's Guide</a>: puts a bit of the two above in practice.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p>The <aclass="ulink"href="https://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html"target="_top">Debian Med Policy</a> (this document): explains how the work is organised in our team.</p></li></ul></div></div><divclass="sect2"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h3class="title"><aid="meta"></a>Contributing to this Policy</h3></div></div></div><p>
to request an account on Salsa.debian.org).</p></div><divclass="sect2"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h3class="title"><aid="readings"></a>Essential readings</h3></div></div></div><divclass="itemizedlist"><ulclass="itemizedlist"style="list-style-type: disc; "><liclass="listitem"><p>The <aclass="ulink"href="https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/"target="_top">Debian Policy</a>: packages must conform to it.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p>The <aclass="ulink"href="https://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/"target="_top">Developers Reference</a>: details best packaging practices.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p>The <aclass="ulink"href="https://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/"target="_top">New Maintainer's Guide</a>: puts a bit of the two above in practice.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p>The <aclass="ulink"href="https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy.html"target="_top">Debian Med Policy</a> (this document): explains how the work is organised in our team.</p></li></ul></div></div><divclass="sect2"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h3class="title"><aid="meta"></a>Contributing to this Policy</h3></div></div></div><p>
This policy is itself maintained in Git and all team members have write access
Debian R packages should be maintained within the <aclass="ulink"href="https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/r-pkg-team"target="_top">Debian R Packages Team</a>.
</p><p>
<aclass="ulink"href="https://packages.debian.org/r-base-core"target="_top">GNU R</a> sometimes introduces backward incompatibilities, so the current practice is to make packages depend on versions equal or higher to the one against which they were built. When using <codeclass="code">r-base-dev</code>, this can be acheived by adding the substitution variable <codeclass="code">${R:Depends}</code> in the <spanclass="emphasis"><em>Depends</em></span> field of the binary package.
</p></div></div><divclass="sect1"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aid="tasks"></a>Tasks</h2></div></div></div><p>The Debian Med <aclass="ulink"href="https://blends.debian.org/blends"target="_top">Debian Pure Blend</a> is organised by <aclass="ulink"href="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks"target="_top">tasks</a>, that group packages around broad themes such as <aclass="ulink"href="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/imaging"target="_top">medical imaging</a> for instance. The tasks list programs that are already packaged in Debian as well as packages in preparation.</p><p>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 <spanclass="command"><strong>debcheckout -a debian-med</strong></span>.</p><p>The syntax of the tasks files is very similar to Debian control files, and described in the <aclass="ulink"href="https://blends.debian.org/blends/ch08.html#edittasksfiles"target="_top">Debian Blends website</a>.</p></div><divclass="sect1"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aid="policy"></a>Policy</h2></div></div></div><divclass="sect2"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h3class="title"><aid="debian-control"></a><codeclass="filename">debian/control</code></h3></div></div></div><divclass="orderedlist"><olclass="orderedlist"type="1"><liclass="listitem"><p><strong>Section. </strong>Should be <spanclass="quote">“<spanclass="quote">science</span>”</span> for the source package.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p><strong>Priority. </strong>Should be <spanclass="quote">“<spanclass="quote">optional</span>”</span> unless forbidden by the Debian policy (<aclass="ulink"href="https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#priorities"target="_top">see §2.5</a>). Packages of priority <spanclass="quote">“<spanclass="quote">extra</span>”</span> are excluded from some QA tests.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p><strong>Maintainer. </strong>Maintainer should be <codeclass="code">Debian Med Packaging Team <codeclass="email"><<aclass="email"href="mailto:debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org">debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org</a>></code></code>. Please subscribe to this list if you list yourself in the <codeclass="code">Uploaders:</code> field of one of Debian Med's packages. You can refer to the <aclass="ulink"href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org"target="_top">QA page</a> corresponding to this email to gather information about the packages.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p><strong>Uploaders. </strong>Please add yourself as an uploader when you have a significant interest in a package. Being Uploader means that you are expected to answer to the bug reports. For more occasional works, you can do a <aclass="ulink"href="https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu-team-upload"target="_top">team upload</a>.
</p></div></div><divclass="sect1"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aid="tasks"></a>Tasks</h2></div></div></div><p>The Debian Med <aclass="ulink"href="https://blends.debian.org/blends"target="_top">Debian Pure Blend</a> is organised by <aclass="ulink"href="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks"target="_top">tasks</a>, that group packages around broad themes such as <aclass="ulink"href="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/imaging"target="_top">medical imaging</a> for instance. The tasks list programs that are already packaged in Debian as well as packages in preparation.</p><p>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 <spanclass="command"><strong>debcheckout -a debian-med</strong></span>.</p><p>The syntax of the tasks files is very similar to Debian control files, and described in the <aclass="ulink"href="https://blends.debian.org/blends/ch08.html#edittasksfiles"target="_top">Debian Blends website</a>.</p></div><divclass="sect1"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aid="policy"></a>Policy</h2></div></div></div><divclass="sect2"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h3class="title"><aid="debian-control"></a><codeclass="filename">debian/control</code></h3></div></div></div><divclass="orderedlist"><olclass="orderedlist"type="1"><liclass="listitem"><p><strong>Section. </strong>Should be <spanclass="quote">“<spanclass="quote">science</span>”</span> for the source package.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p><strong>Priority. </strong>Should be <spanclass="quote">“<spanclass="quote">optional</span>”</span> unless forbidden by the Debian policy (<aclass="ulink"href="https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#priorities"target="_top">see §2.5</a>). Packages of priority <spanclass="quote">“<spanclass="quote">extra</span>”</span> are excluded from some QA tests.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p><strong>Maintainer. </strong>Maintainer should be <codeclass="code">Debian Med Packaging Team <codeclass="email"><<aclass="email"href="mailto:debian-med-packaging@alioth-lists.debian.net">debian-med-packaging@alioth-lists.debian.net</a>></code></code>. Please subscribe to this list if you list yourself in the <codeclass="code">Uploaders:</code> field of one of Debian Med's packages. You can refer to the <aclass="ulink"href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-med-packaging@alioth-lists.debian.net"target="_top">QA page</a> corresponding to this email to gather information about the packages.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p><strong>Uploaders. </strong>Please add yourself as an uploader when you have a significant interest in a package. Being Uploader means that you are expected to answer to the bug reports. For more occasional works, you can do a <aclass="ulink"href="https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu-team-upload"target="_top">team upload</a>.
</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p><strong>Standards-Version. </strong>Please always use the latest unless there are concerns for backporting. If no changes are needed, please indicate this fact in the changelog, and increment the value of the field.</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p><strong>Homepage. </strong>should be documented whenever possible</p></li><liclass="listitem"><p><aid="vcs-url"></a><strong>Vcs-Git: and Vcs-Browser: </strong>Please use the following templates, and refer to the Debian Policy
<listitem><para>The <ulinkurl="https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/">Debian Policy</ulink>: packages must conform to it.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulinkurl="https://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/">Developers Reference</ulink>: details best packaging practices.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulinkurl="https://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/">New Maintainer's Guide</ulink>: puts a bit of the two above in practice.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulinkurl="https://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html">Debian Med Policy</ulink> (this document): explains how the work is organised in our team.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulinkurl="https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy.html">Debian Med Policy</ulink> (this document): explains how the work is organised in our team.</para></listitem>
<para>Maintainer should be <code>Debian Med Packaging Team <email>debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org</email></code>. Please subscribe to this list if you list yourself in the <code>Uploaders:</code> field of one of Debian Med's packages. You can refer to the <ulinkurl="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org">QA page</ulink> corresponding to this email to gather information about the packages.</para>
<para>Maintainer should be <code>Debian Med Packaging Team <email>debian-med-packaging@alioth-lists.debian.net</email></code>. Please subscribe to this list if you list yourself in the <code>Uploaders:</code> field of one of Debian Med's packages. You can refer to the <ulinkurl="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-med-packaging@alioth-lists.debian.net">QA page</ulink> corresponding to this email to gather information about the packages.</para>