packaging-tutorial – introduction to Debian packaging

This tutorial is an introduction to Debian packaging. It teaches prospective developers how to modify existing packages, how to create their own packages, and how to interact with the Debian community. In addition to the main tutorial, it includes three practical sessions on modifying the ‘grep’ package, and packaging the ‘gnujump’ game and a Java library.

Package availability chart

Distribution

Base version

Our version

Architectures

Debian GNU/Linux 10.0 (buster)

0.24

Debian GNU/Linux 11.0 (bullseye)

0.27

Debian GNU/Linux 12.0 (bookworm)

0.29

Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch)

0.19

Debian testing (trixie)

0.30

Debian unstable (sid)

0.30

0.8~nd0

i386, amd64, sparc, armel

Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” (xenial)

0.15

Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic Beaver” (bionic)

0.21

Ubuntu 20.04 “Focal Fossa” (focal)

0.24

Ubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish” (jammy)

0.29

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