5. Managing Packages

This chapter contains information related to creating, uploading, maintaining, and porting packages.

• 5.1. New packages
• 5.2. Recording changes in the package
• 5.3. Testing the package
• 5.4. Layout of the source package
• 5.5. Picking a distribution
• 5.6. Uploading a package
• 5.7. Specifying the package section, subsection and priority
• 5.8. Handling bugs
• 5.9. Moving, removing, renaming, orphaning, adopting, and reintroducing packages
• 5.10. Porting and being ported
• 5.11. Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)
• 5.12. Package Salvaging
• 5.13. Collaborative maintenance
• 5.14. The testing distribution