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>What Else</TITLE
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>7. What Else</H1
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> There are many details which have not been covered here, like how to distribute
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Unix daemons, configuration files and much more.</P
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But most important, I want to emphasize again that for Debian
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maintainers,
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packages are source packages, not binary packages. They never interact directly
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with the internals binary packages. In fact only '<TT
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need to know what they are. In fact it is not recommended to do so.
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If a developer were to explain someone how to build a Debian package, he
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will certainly explain how to make a source package and how to build it.
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> On the other hand, not every developer wants to submit his software
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to Debian (yet), but still wants to profit from
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the advantages a packaging system like 'dpkg' offers without releasing
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package source code. Personally I will release my freeware projects
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still as tar.gz files with source code etc. for all kind of platforms,
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while I plan to offer more and more '.deb' packages for the convenience
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of Debian users who just want to install and use my software.
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If someone wants to do the next step to submit a software package to Debian,
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you have to move on to study the Debian New Maintainers' Guide as well
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as the <A
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>Debian Policy Manual</A
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first. On your undertaking to create a Debian source package, also have
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a look at the
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mailing list to see experienced and
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beginning Debian developers interacting with each other and tackling similar
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problem you might encounter.
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