This manual does not describe the technical mechanisms involved in package creation, installation, and removal. This information can be found in the Debian Packaging Manual and the Debian System Administrators' Manual.
This document assumes familiarity with these other two manuals. Unfortunately, the System Administrators' Manual does not exist yet.
Much of the information presented in this manual will be useful even when building a package which is to be distributed in some other way or is for local use.
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/manuals/debian-policy.html.tar.gz
or from the Debian WWW server at
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-policy/
There is also a home page for the Debian Policy Manual that
contains links to the current development version of this document as
well as an archive of old versions. The URL is
http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-policy/
In addition, this manual is distributed via the Debian package
debian-policy
While the authors of this document tried hard not to include any typos
or other errors these still occur. If you discover an error in this
manual or if you want to tell us any comments, suggestions, or critics
please send an email to the Debian Policy Manager, Christian
Schwarz schwarz@debian.org, the developers' mailing
list debian-devel@lists.debian.org, or submit a bug report
against the debian-policy
package.