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1.4 Related documents
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There are several other documents other than this Policy Manual that are
necessary to fully understand some Debian policies and procedures.

The external “sub-policy” documents are referred to in:

   - Note: File System Structure.

   - Note: Virtual packages.

   - Note: Menus.

   - Note: Perl programs and modules.

   - Note: Prompting in maintainer scripts.

   - Note: Emacs lisp programs.

In addition to those, which carry the weight of policy, there is the
Debian Developer’s Reference.  This document describes procedures and
resources for Debian developers, but it is `not' normative; rather, it
includes things that don’t belong in the Policy, such as best practices
for developers.

The Developer’s Reference is available in the developers-reference
package.  It’s also available from the Debian web mirrors at
‘https://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/’.

Finally, a Note: specification for machine-readable copyright files.
is maintained as part of the debian-policy package using the same
procedure as the other policy documents.  Use of this format is
optional.