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  • How Ubuntu is made
    • Governance
      • Ethos
        • Ubuntu Code of Conduct
        • Diversity policy
        • Our Mission
      • Peers
    • Key concepts
      • Ubuntu releases
      • Upstream and downstream
      • Supported architectures
      • Launchpad
      • Package archive
      • Package format
      • Package lifecycle
      • Version string format
      • Patches
      • Phased updates
      • DEP 3 - patch file headers
      • Debian policy
      • debian/ directory
      • Filesystem hierarchy standard
    • Process overviews
      • Release cycle
      • Freezes
      • Merges & syncs
      • Sync process
      • Transitions
      • Proposed migration
      • Backports
      • Sponsorship
      • Stable Release Updates
      • Main Inclusion Review (MIR)
        • MIR roles and steps
        • Process states
        • MIR exception - font packages
        • MIR exception - OEM packages
        • MIR - re-reviews
        • MIR - Rust code in main
  • Contributors
    • Getting started
      • Setting up for Ubuntu development
      • Get the source of a package
    • Debugging
      • Debug an Apport crash
    • Fix a bug
      • Report a bug
      • Download a new upstream version
      • Extract packages
      • Install built packages
      • Fix a bug in package
      • Build packages
      • Package building
      • Propose changes
      • Bug fixing checklist
    • Patching
      • Making changes to a package
      • Patch management
      • Work with Debian patches
      • Dual maintenance with Salsa and git-ubuntu
      • Committing your changes
      • Merge proposals
    • Testing
      • How to run package tests
    • New packages
      • How to create a new package
      • Request an SRU
      • Upload packages to a PPA
    • How to find a sponsor
    • Advanced contributor tasks
      • Check publication history
      • Checking reverse dependencies
      • Merge Proposal review
      • How to merge a package
      • How to sponsor
      • +1 Maintenance
      • +1 Maintenance report template
      • Request a package removal
      • MIR bug request template
      • How to use MIR templates
    • Contribute docs
  • Maintainers
    • Uploader tasks
      • Sponsoring
      • How to update seeds
      • How to work with the upload queue
    • Handling MIR reviews
      • MIR reviewer's template
    • SRU tasks
      • How to review an SRU
    • Archive Admin tasks
      • NEW review
      • Remove a package
      • Package overrides
      • Priority mismatches
      • Signing bootloaders
      • Change phasing on delivering SRU updates
      • i386
      • Archive-related services
      • Check contributions to AA process and documentation
  • Who makes Ubuntu
    • Councils and Boards
      • Community Council
      • Conflict resolution
      • Delegation
      • Membership Board
      • Technical Board
    • Roles and responsibilities
      • About the uploaders role
        • Uploaders service level agreement
      • About the MIR role
        • MIR team weekly status meeting
        • MIR Service Level Objectives
      • About the SRU role
        • SRU service level agreement
      • Archive Administration
    • Joining a role
      • Path to upload rights
      • Membership in Package Set
      • Membership in MOTU
      • Membership in Core Developers
    • Specialist teams
      • The Bug Squad
      • Ubuntu Bug Control
  • Glossary
  • Staging/preview area
    • Archive Admin museum
    • Germinate
    • Mirror scripts
    • Mirrors
    • New packages
    • Content that doesn’t belong to AA
    • The Package Archive
    • Partner archive
    • Push mirroring
    • Seed management
    • Sponsorship process
    • Feature Freeze
    • Freeze exceptions
    • Request a Freeze exception
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  • Work with Debian patches
  • Dual maintenance with Salsa and git-ubuntu
  • Committing your changes
  • Merge proposals
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