[med-svn] r9987 - trunk/community/website/docs

[Andreas Tille]

Author: tille
Date: 2012-03-13 13:58:53 +0000 (Tue, 13 Mar 2012)
New Revision: 9987

Modified:
   trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Commit a some "Newcomer guidelines for building proper Debian packages" paragraph which somehow resided uncommited on my harddisk for a longer time


Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
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--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2012-03-13 09:55:40 UTC (rev 9986)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2012-03-13 13:58:53 UTC (rev 9987)
@@ -520,6 +520,14 @@
 	</sect1>
 	<sect1 id="packaging">
 		<title>Packaging</title>
+		<sect2 id="packagingguidelines">
+			<title>Newcomer guidelines for building proper Debian packages</title>
+    			<para>Some newcomers tend to go the create DEBIAN dir, move files around and `dpkg-deb -b` way to create
+    			Debian packages.  Short answer: Forget about this.  The only way to the official Debian mirror leads
+    			via proper source packages.  The right way to build Debian packages is described in
+    			<ulink url="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/">Debian New Maintainers' Guide</ulink>.
+    			</para>
+		</sect2>
 		<sect2 id="itp">
 			<title>Announcing intent to package</title>
 			<para>If you intent to work on a Debian package you should follow