Packaging rules

1. Only open-source projects

This is a repo for publishing your awesome open-source projects. We don't accept closed-source projects.

2. Dependencies should only come from the official Debian repositories

No 3rd dependencies are allowed so that the dependency tree of the official repo won't be broken.

An exception is that it is allowed for the election projects to have the dependency on electron package if they need an electron runtime.

3. Packages should not replace the one in the official repos

In order to avoid breaking the dependency tree in the official repository. If you are looking for a newer version of those packages, you should use the official Debian Backports repo.

If a package has the same name as one in the official repo, it should be renamed and installed in a different path like /opt.

4. Pack as a single package

One software = one package. Do not split a package into something like abcd libabcd1 libabcd-dev and so on in order to make it easier to maintain.