DEP - Debian Enhancement Proposals
Debian Enhancement Proposals (or DEPs, for short) offer a device to organize discussions about various kinds of enhancements in the Debian project, reflect their current status and, in particular, archive their outcomes.
DEP workflow: state diagram
In essence, each enhancement proposals is assigned to one or more drivers which follow the proposals advancing through various states, until it is finally accepted (or rejected). Discussions about ongoing DEPs happen in the usual Debian way (i.e., the most appropriate mailing list, IRC channel, etc.).
More rationale and the full details about DEPs can be found in DEP 0: Introducing Debian Enhancement Proposals.
DEP index
| Status | Title |
|---|---|
| CANDIDATE | DEP 0: Introducing Debian Enhancement Proposals |
| ACCEPTED | DEP 1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) |
| DRAFT | DEP 2: Debian Package Maintenance Hub |
| ACCEPTED | DEP 3: Patch Tagging Guidelines |
| DRAFT | DEP 4: Translation packages in Debian (TDebs) |
| ACCEPTED | DEP 5: Machine-readable debian/copyright |
| REJECTED | DEP 6: Meta-Package debian/control field |
| REJECTED | DEP 7: Java Web Application Packaging |
| DRAFT | DEP 8: automatic as-installed package testing |
| CANDIDATE | DEP 9: inet-superserver configuration by maintainer scripts |
| RESERVED | DEP 10: parallelized ("rolling") release management |
| ACCEPTED | DEP 11: AppStream and Component Metadata for Debian |
| DRAFT | DEP 12: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream |
| DRAFT | DEP 13: Debian specific homepage field |
| DRAFT | DEP 14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories |
| DRAFT | DEP 15: Reserved namespace for DD-approved non-maintainer changes |
Additional information
- You are free to use http://dep.debian.net to work on DEPs, check the howto for more information. Please note that you should also read and follow the procedure outlined in DEP 0 (especially with respect to announcing the DEP) before starting work on your DEP.