Users of Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) now can easily install the Ubuntu Packaging Guide:

daniel@daydream:~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-packaging-guide Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: ubuntu-packaging-guide-html The following NEW packages will be installed: ubuntu-packaging-guide ubuntu-packaging-guide-html 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/488 kB of archives. After this operation, 1244 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Selecting previously unselected package ubuntu-packaging-guide-html. (Reading database ... 238890 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ubuntu-packaging-guide-html (from .../ubuntu-packaging-guide-html_0.2.2_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package ubuntu-packaging-guide. Unpacking ubuntu-packaging-guide (from .../ubuntu-packaging-guide_0.2.2_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for doc-base ... Processing 1 added doc-base file... Registering documents with scrollkeeper... Setting up ubuntu-packaging-guide-html (0.2.2) ... Setting up ubuntu-packaging-guide (0.2.2) ... daniel@daydream:~$`

Of course you can always browse it online here but for all offline use it is now in Ubuntu in PDF, HTML and EPUB formats.

This was only possible through the help of many contributors. Some of them I was able to get together from the bzr log:

Alexander Fougner

Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

Barry Warsaw

Benjamin Drung

Brian Murray

Daniel Holbach

Dmitry Shachnev

Iain Lane

Jamie Strandboge

Jelmer Vernooij

Jeremy Bicha

Jim Campbell

Jonathan Jesse

Jonathan Riddell

Joseph Mills

Leo Iannacone

Martin Owens

Raoul Snyman

Ryein

Stefano Rivera

Thanks so much for your great work in the Ubuntu Packaging Guide project - you are all heroes!

There is still lots of work to be done. If you want to get involved, because it’s a really nice project, have a look at a list of bugs and please help to get it translated!