<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>Debian Med Group Policy</title><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"/></head><body><divclass="article"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"><aid="idm1"></a>Debian Med Group Policy</h2></div><div><divclass="authorgroup"><divclass="author"><h3class="author"><spanclass="firstname">Andreas</span><spanclass="surname">Tille</span></h3><spanclass="contrib">First review </span><codeclass="email"><<aclass="email"href="mailto:tille@debian.org">tille@debian.org</a>></code></div><divclass="author"><h3class="author"><spanclass="firstname">David</span><spanclass="surname">Paleino</span></h3><spanclass="contrib">Initial writing </span><codeclass="email"><<aclass="email"href="mailto:d.paleino@gmail.com">d.paleino@gmail.com</a>></code></div><divclass="author"><h3class="author"><spanclass="firstname">Charles</span><spanclass="surname">Plessy</span></h3><spanclass="contrib">Contributions in 2008 and 2011</span><codeclass="email"><<aclass="email"href="mailto:plessy@debian.org">plessy@debian.org</a>></code></div></div></div><div><pclass="releaseinfo">
</p></div></div><hr/></div><divclass="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dlclass="toc"><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="#introduction">Introduction</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="#contribute">How to Contribute</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#membership">Membership</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#readings">Essential readings</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#meta">Contributing to this Policy</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="#repositories">Repositories</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#source">Give me the source!</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#git-repository-structures">Common Git repository structures</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#git-tips">Git tips</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#updating-git-package">Updating a source package managed with Git</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="#packaging">Packaging</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#packagingguidelines">Newcomer guidelines for building proper Debian packages</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#itp">Announcing intent to package</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#backports">Backports</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#ppa">PPA for Ubuntu</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#sidonubuntu">Debian unstable chroot on Ubuntu</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#derivatives">Derivatives working together with Debian Med</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#r-packages">R packages</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="#tasks">Tasks</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="#policy">Policy</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#debian-control"><codeclass="filename">debian/control</code></a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#debian-copyright"><codeclass="filename">debian/copyright</code></a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#debian-changelog"><codeclass="filename">debian/changelog</code></a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#debian-upstream"><codeclass="filename">debian/upstream</code></a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#debian-gbp.conf"><codeclass="filename">debian/gbp.conf</code></a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#debian-readme-source"><codeclass="filename">debian/README.source</code></a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#debian-readme-test"><codeclass="filename">debian/README.test</code></a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#debian-source-format"><codeclass="filename">debian/source/format</code></a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#debian-source-option"><codeclass="filename">debian/source/options</code></a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#debhelper">Debhelper</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#vcs">Version control systems</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#new-package">New package</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#new-packages-in-tasks">The Debian Med Blend tasks</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#building-and-tagging">Building and tagging the packages</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#patches">Handling patches</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="#faq">FAQ</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="#autobuilder">What to do if a large package does not build on a specific autobuilder architecture?</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><divclass="mediaobject"align="center"><imgsrc="/img/debian-med.jpg"align="middle"/></div><divclass="sect1"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aid="introduction"></a>Introduction</h2></div></div></div><p>Debian Med is a <spanclass="quote">“<spanclass="quote"><aclass="ulink"href="https://blends.debian.org/blends"target="_top">Debian Pure Blend</a></span>”</span>
with the aim to develop Debian into an operating system that is particularly
well tailored for the requirements for medical practice and research.</p><p>The Debian Med project presents packages that are associated
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This policy is itself maintained in Git and all team members have write access
