Packaging Guidelines (for IPFire 3.x)

This is a collection of guidelines that are intended to help the developers packaging new packages.

They need to be enforced under any circumstances and only in exceptional cases a deviation from these rules must be granted by the development community.

Package information

• Package Names (for IPFire 3.x)
• Package Version & Release Number (for IPFire 3.x)
• Summary and Description (for IPFire 3.x)
• Licensing (for IPFire 3.x)
• Dependencies (for IPFire 3.x)
• Architectures (for IPFire 3.x)

Build process

• Compiler Flags (for IPFire 3.x)
• Parallel Builds (for IPFire 3.x)
• Filesystem layout
• Shared Libraries
• Scriptlets (for IPFire 3.x)
• Test Suites (for IPFire 3.x)
• Symlinks (for IPFire 3.x)
• Man Pages (for IPFire 3.x)