About this Repo

The generated tarballs don't belong in a git repo. In the past we had to use git checkout --orphan, which very effectively discards all the history of the branch for each tarball. The benefit is much shorter download times, since there's no big binary history.

Now the tarballs are handled by git-lfs: git lfs install # initialize the Git LFS project git lfs track "*.tar.xz"

This is the Git repo of the Docker official image for debian. See the Docker Hub page for the full readme on how to use this Docker image and for information regarding contributing and issues.

The full readme is generated over in docker-library/docs, specificially in docker-library/docs/debian.

Maintainers

This image is maintained by tianon and paultag, who are Debian Developers.

Building

This image is built using bin/mkimage.sh, where the interesting bits live in bin/mkimage/debootstrap.

The master branch contains the scripts and is where any "development" happens, and the dist branch contains the built tarballs and the build logs.

Separate branches:

dist-unstable dist-stable dist-oldstable master