Chapter 40
Helping with Ubuntu Development
This chapter focuses on becoming part of a larger team—specifically the group of talented men and women who develop and package software for Ubuntu as a whole. Ubuntu is made up of thousands of different components that are written in several different programming languages. Every component is available as source code, which is gathered into source packages. Source packages also include other content, specifically metadata describing things like copyright and licensing information, required dependencies, and build instructions for compiling or assembling the software ...
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