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      • Debian policy
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    • Process overviews
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      • Sync process
      • Transitions
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      • Proposed migration
        • Failure to Build From Source (FTBFS)
        • Autopkgtest regressions
        • Issues preventing migration
        • Special migration cases
      • Sponsorship
      • Stable Release Updates
      • Main Inclusion Review (MIR)
        • MIR roles and steps
        • Process states
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  • Contributors
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      • Bug fixing checklist
    • Patching
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      • Patch management
      • Work with Debian patches
      • Dual maintenance with Salsa and git-ubuntu
      • Committing your changes
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      • Request an SRU
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      • Check publication history
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    • Contribute docs
  • Maintainers
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      • How to work with the upload queue
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      • MIR reviewer's template
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      • How to review an SRU
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      • Check contributions to AA process and documentation
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      • About the uploaders role
        • Uploaders service level agreement
      • About the MIR role
        • MIR team weekly status meeting
        • MIR Service Level Objectives
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        • SRU service level agreement
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    • The Release Team
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      • Request a Freeze exception
      • Seeds
      • Seed management
      • Germinate
      • Mirrors
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      • Push mirroring
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