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Best practices for packaging database applications
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<h2 id="abstract">Abstract</h2>
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This draft describes a set of guidelines and best practices to be implemented
by the maintainers of database application packages. Pending a final draft,
desire, and acceptance by the developer community at large, this may serve as
the foundation for an official policy--or it may simply remain as it is.
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Copyright © 2005 sean finney <code><a href="mailto:seanius@debian.org">mailto:seanius@debian.org</a></code>
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<li><a href="ch-dbapps.html#s-placement">1.3 Placement of databases</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-dbapps.html#s-installationissues">1.4 Installation related issues</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-dbapps.html#s-tools">1.5 Build-time and run-time tools</a></li>
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