APT repository

Wikimedia maintains its own apt repository, under http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia, running on brewster. This repository contains Debian / Ubuntu packages that have been modified for use by Wikimedia, as well as Wikimedia-specific packages that don't exist elsewhere.

Packaging software

Packaging software is a three-step process. First, you need to create a source package. If your project's source code is managed by Gerrit, you can use git-buildpackage to create a source package. Second, you will need to use pbuilder to build binary packages. Finally, you (or someone else) will need to upload the packages to our repository, using reprepro.