name: Debian Vocabulary
description: >-
  Shared vocabulary of terms used across Debian's developer-facing
  services - sources.debian.org, the Bug Tracking System, and the
  Ultimate Debian Database.
terms:
  - term: Source Package
    definition: >-
      The collection of upstream sources plus Debian packaging needed to
      build one or more binary packages.
  - term: Binary Package
    definition: A compiled .deb file installable via apt or dpkg.
  - term: Suite
    definition: >-
      A named release channel such as stable, testing, unstable, or
      experimental.
  - term: Maintainer
    definition: The Debian Developer responsible for a source package.
  - term: BTS
    definition: >-
      The Debian Bug Tracking System at bugs.debian.org, used to file and
      track issues against packages and pseudo-packages.
  - term: Severity
    definition: >-
      A bug's importance, ranging from wishlist through normal, important,
      serious, grave, and critical.
  - term: Lintian
    definition: >-
      A tool that checks Debian packages against policy and best
      practices; results are surfaced via UDD.
  - term: UDD
    definition: >-
      The Ultimate Debian Database - a Postgres database aggregating
      Debian-wide data for cross-cutting queries.
  - term: Reproducible Build
    definition: >-
      A build process that yields bit-for-bit identical artifacts when
      repeated under the same inputs.
  - term: Patch
    definition: >-
      A change carried by Debian on top of upstream source, surfaced via
      sources.debian.org/patches.