# Ubuntu project

> This documentation provides guidance for contributors to and maintainers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. It covers processes and concepts, as well as project governance and team workflows. There are instructions for packaging, merging, proposed migrations, autopkgtests, and many other procedures for maintaining the Ubuntu Archive and releasing the distribution.


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## Pages in this subsection

- [How to submit a merge proposal](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/contributors/updating/submit-a-merge-proposal.md): When you want to push changes to a package, the first step is to open a merge proposal (MP). The mer...
- [Updating](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/contributors/updating.md): * Get a new upstream version
- [How to get a new upstream version](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/contributors/updating/get-a-new-upstream-version.md): Download a new upstream release or checking if a newer upstream release exists is usually needed whe...
- [How to extract packages](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/contributors/updating/extract-packages.md): This article demonstrates how to extract the contents of Debian packages. See also the article Packa...
- [How to make changes to a package](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/contributors/updating/make-changes-to-a-package.md): This tutorial goes through the process of adding a patch to a package in Ubuntu. Specifically, we ad...
- [How to manage patches](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/contributors/updating/manage-patches.md): This article demonstrates how to manage the patches of a source package in the `3.0 (quilt)` format.
- [How to work with Debian patches](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/contributors/updating/work-with-debian-patches.md): TODO: The content from this page came from the UMH.
- [How to commit changes](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/contributors/updating/commit-changes.md): Once you have your patches ready, update the package changelog and commit the changes to Git. This a...
- [Dual maintenance with Salsa and git-ubuntu](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/contributors/updating/dual-maintenance-with-salsa-and-git-ubuntu.md): Some packages for Ubuntu are maintained simultaneously using git-ubuntu and

## Optional

- [Top-level llms.txt](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/llms.txt): Complete documentation index.