new developer questions
Hello, my name is Ioannis and I will try to release my first
simple package ascii_1.2-1, see short demo at the end, with the
intention to become familiar with the ways and culture of this
place. I followed the devel-list for a week and I read that nowdays
developing packages is *trivial*. Not really, it is not! There is
tons of docs, policies, and manpages to read ; often, I read the wrong
ones.
Here are my questions, I need some help:
(1) Do I have to submit both the binary and source package, all at
once, for the same debian release?
(2) Where can I read about the new package format.
(3) The way I understand it, dpkg -b is to build .deb, and
deb-make is create source packages. Correct ?
(4) I have deb-make version 2.40, do I need to upgrade (to what?)
(5) When someone says the "the package was uploaded to master",
do they mean master.debian.org ? I could never find anything there,
in fact, not even the Incoming directory. Where is it?
(6) What is my deadline to upload for debian 1.3 ?
Before I exit, here is a sample out output form ascii(1). It is
user frendly utility for programmers:
~ 4 % ascii a
ASCII 6/1 is decimal 097, hex 61, octal 141, bits 01100001: prints as `a'
Official name: Miniscule a
Other names: Small a, Lowercase a
~ 5 % ascii 61
ASCII 6/1 is decimal 097, hex 61, octal 141, bits 01100001: prints as `a'
Official name: Miniscule a
Other names: Small a, Lowercase a
ASCII 3/13 is decimal 061, hex 3d, octal 075, bits 00111101: prints as `='
Official name: Equals
Other names: Quadrathorp, Gets, Becomes, Half-Mesh
ASCII 3/1 is decimal 049, hex 31, octal 061, bits 00110001: prints as `1'
Official name: Numeral One
Ioannis Tambouras
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PGP 768/429EE365, West Palm Beach, Florida
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