[paxswill]

Like this? https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-flowcharts.html

I skimmed the New Maintainers Guide for a rough idea of what to do and then used the Debian Policy Manual with the various debhelper manpages for specific references of what each field/script meant. I also dig into the source of some packages to see how they were packaged (for example, when I was creating an archive keyring). The two areas I had the most trouble with were deb triggers and debconf, which only seem to be documented on external sites.

New Maintainers’ Guide: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/