+2002-06-14 02:26 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.100): my changes; standardize Raphael's
+ changelog entries
+
+2002-06-14 02:19 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.112): populate Sec "Collaborative
+ maintenance"
+
+2002-06-14 01:15 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.111): spelling fixes and some
+ awkward wordings fixed
+
+2002-06-14 00:29 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/TODO (1.5): more notes to myself, many probably obsolete
+
+2002-06-10 03:31 hertzog
+
+ * common.ent (1.32), developers-reference.sgml (1.110),
+ debian/changelog (1.99): - Integrated Sec "Handling debconf
+ translations" contributed by Denis Barbier. Thanks Denis !
+
+2002-06-08 16:29 hertzog
+
+ * common.ent (1.31), developers-reference.sgml (1.109),
+ debian/changelog (1.98): - Completed Sec "Package with multiple
+ patches", "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other
+ specific packages", "The wise use of debconf". All those are
+ quite simplistic, they can be improved ...
+
+2002-05-23 20:17 hertzog
+
+ * common.ent (1.30), developers-reference.sgml (1.108),
+ debian/changelog (1.97): - Completed Sec "Voting" - Completed Sec
+ "Documentation" - Added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources
+ chapter. - Added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the
+ being kind to porter too. - Extended the explanation about
+ devscripts. - Completed Sec "Helper scripts"
+
+2002-05-23 16:03 hertzog
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.107), debian/changelog (1.96): -
+ Completed Sec Bug housekeeping. closes: #39519 - Stubbed sections
+ for all ideas for "Best Packaging Practices". We have to either
+ fill them or comment them out. I've put some notes about the
+ content of each of those sections to help the writers.
+
+2002-05-12 04:36 hertzog
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.106): - Fixed the URL in Sec "Bug
+ Reporting"
+
+2002-05-11 23:33 Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>
+
+ * developers-reference.ja.sgml (1.10): Sorry, this bugs broke DDP
+ site build process.
+
+ I saw simple typos (missing ";") and <ftppath>-tags which does not
+ exist in English. This was good iontension but used in conflict
+ with the current common.ent.
+
+ I hopefully used 8-bit clean editor (vimand mcedit in LC_ALL=C).
+ I do not have LANG=ja_JP in my system :( Shame on me.
+
+ Now DDP site shall build :)
+
+2002-05-11 16:10 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.29), developers-reference.sgml (1.105),
+ debian/changelog (1.95): entity'ize master.debian.org,
+ us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
+
+ tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
+ directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
+ work-around with <...>
+
+ fix some awkward working from recent updates
+
+2002-05-10 16:27 hertzog
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.104): * Sec "Writing useful
+ descriptions": added a blurb about spell-checking.
+
+2002-05-09 18:24 hertzog
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.103), debian/changelog (1.94): - Sec
+ "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from Francesco
+ Paolo Lovergine. Heavily updated by myself. - New Section
+ "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by Francesco Paolo
+ Lovergine. Slightly updated by myself.
+
+2002-05-09 13:43 hertzog
+
+ * common.ent (1.28), developers-reference.sgml (1.102),
+ debian/changelog (1.93): - Various spelling fixes. - Sec
+ "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
+ login@debian.org. - Update the total number of packages and the
+ example directory tree of a Debian archive. - Updated the list
+ of available architectures. - Commented out the "Subsections"
+ section since it will RSN have nothing to with the Debian
+ archive. It's just a generic information field of the package and
+ nothing more. - Added more incentive to use experimental since it
+ doesn't cause any pains to the ftpmasters. - Sec "When to do a
+ source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest the use of
+ the delayed queue. - New Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to
+ explain the need to integrate the changes introduced by NMUs.
+ Insists on the fact that one shouldn't be upset by a NMU. -
+ Stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance". - Stubbed in
+ new Section "The Package Tracking System".
+
+2002-05-09 05:45 hertzog
+
+ * common.ent (1.27), developers-reference.sgml (1.101),
+ debian/changelog (1.92): - Sec "The Incoming system" in
+ "Resources", describe how it works and also speak of the DELAYED
+ directory. closes: #135562, #136774
+
+2002-05-08 18:27 hertzog
+
+ * common.ent (1.26), developers-reference.sgml (1.100),
+ debian/changelog (1.91): - Explain to reassign/close bugs of
+ removed packages. closes: #130255 - Updates the note about software
+ subject to US patents. closes: #142798 - New Section "Contacting
+ other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging" Document the
+ package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553 - New Section
+ "Package's information" under Resources Document
+ http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
+ http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility. - Sec
+ "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com -
+ Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
+
+2002-05-08 16:07 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.90): standardizing some of Raphael's entries
+
+2002-05-08 11:34 hertzog
+
+ * common.ent (1.25), developers-reference.sgml (1.99),
+ debian/changelog (1.89): - Indicated that the list of subsections
+ is defined in the policy. Closes: #123586 - Removed some cruft
+ in `Announcing package uploads'. - Document the testing scripts.
+ Closes: #129445
+
+2002-05-08 06:29 hertzog
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.98), debian/changelog (1.88): -
+ Added best packaging practices chapter. - Added "Writing useful
+ descriptions" as a first entry in that chapter. Closes: #53109,
+ #129848
+
+2002-05-07 18:39 hertzog
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.97): - Little typo: s/you/your/.
+
+2002-05-06 23:37 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.96), debian/changelog (1.87): trim
+ the bad submit-bugs chapter; s/GPG/GnuPG/
+
+2002-05-06 23:09 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.95), debian/changelog (1.86): spell
+ check and some awkward grammar
+
+2002-05-06 22:52 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.85): cosmetics and Antoine's updates
+
+2002-05-06 19:25 hertzog
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.94), debian/changelog (1.84): -
+ Changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line. - Remove
+ all references explaining that the upstream orig tarball can be
+ changed during lifetime. - Deleted "binary NMU" when we really
+ mean "porter upload" or "simple recompile". - Elaborated more
+ about "binary-only NMU". - Detail more things about the removal of
+ package. - Fix other issues from #102626.
+
+2002-05-06 10:59 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.31): Finally in sync with 1.91
+ (aph updated the original before me).
+
+2002-05-06 10:54 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.93): Small changes.
+
+2002-05-06 10:38 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.83): new stubbed section I missed
+
+2002-05-06 10:32 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.82): recent changes
+
+2002-05-06 10:31 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.30): Synchronized with 1.92.
+
+2002-05-06 10:29 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.24), developers-reference.sgml (1.92): - new
+ Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
+ the former chapters
+ Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
+ Ch "The Debian Archive"
+
+ - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former
+ chapters
+ Ch "Package uploads"
+ Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
+ Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
+ Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
+ Packages"
+ Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
+ Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
+
+ - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
+ to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
+ Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
+ Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
+ Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
+ Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
+ Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
+
+ - Sec "Voting" stubbed in Developer Duties
+ - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
+
+2002-05-06 10:28 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * Makefile (1.18): depend for developers-reference.html/*
+
+2002-05-05 16:44 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.91), debian/changelog (1.81): -
+ new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" for recommended ways to contribute
+ to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; Ch
+ "Interaction with
+ Prospective Developers" moved into this chapter and renamed
+ to Sec
+ "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
+ - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
+ - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
+
+2002-05-05 14:12 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.90): chapter titles need caps
+
+2002-05-05 14:10 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.80): recent changes
+
+2002-05-05 14:10 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/control (1.14): add hertzog as co-maintainer
+
+2002-05-05 14:10 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.89): - Sec "Getting started":
+ link to New Maintainers' Guide
+ - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and
+ Sponsors",
+ we add some info on sponsoring
+
+2002-05-05 14:09 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.23): newmaint guide and sponsor coordination page
+
+2002-05-03 13:21 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/: changelog (1.79), control (1.13): makefile change; manoj
+ is a co-maintainer
+
+2002-05-03 13:20 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * Makefile (1.17): simplifications to the tex prefix rules; they
+ are completely irrelevant now though since debiandoc-sgml does it
+ right
+
+2002-04-13 18:46 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.29): Small corrections.
+
+2002-04-13 18:18 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.28): Synchronized with 1.88.
+
+2002-04-13 18:14 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.88): Miscellaneous corrections
+
+2002-04-08 02:57 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.6): update for next release
+
+2002-04-08 02:57 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/TODO (1.4): yet more todo
+
+2002-04-08 02:53 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/TODO (1.3): more todo
+
+2002-04-08 02:35 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.87), debian/changelog (1.78):
+ - dpkg-dev-el: new section
+ - Ch "Package uploads":
+ - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
+ - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
+ - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
+ - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
+ - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
+ - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
+
+2002-04-08 01:44 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.86), debian/changelog (1.77): Sec
+ "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
+
+2002-04-08 01:33 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.85): FIXME for more programs to
+ document
+
+2002-04-08 01:23 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.84), debian/changelog (1.76): -
+ Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
+ - improve the intro
+ - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
+ - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get
+ info on the dh-* pkgs
+ - dput: new section, closes: #129378
+ - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
+ - other minor wording changes
+
+2002-04-07 03:02 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.75): recent changes
+
+2002-04-01 10:50 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.83): Charles Briscoe-Smith
+ deprecates yada
+
+2002-03-31 17:09 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.74): changes for next version, not yet ready
+ for release though
+
+2002-03-31 17:08 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.82): from Martin Michlmayr: changes
+ in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming anymore,
+ talk about dput a bit; closes: #135559
+
+2002-03-15 13:14 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.27): Increment the cvs-en-rev
+ entity
+
+2002-03-15 12:45 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * common.ent (1.22), developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.26),
+ developers-reference.sgml (1.81): Miscellaneous corrections
+
+2002-03-11 17:03 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.25): Synchronized with version
+ 1.80
+
+2002-02-24 15:03 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.5): update for next release
+
+2002-02-24 14:57 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.73): prepare 2.10.0
+
+2002-02-24 14:51 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/copyright (1.4): fix a typo
+
+2002-02-24 14:51 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.24), developers-reference.ja.sgml
+ (1.9): use new language-independant entities
+
+2002-02-24 14:49 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.21), developers-reference.sgml (1.80): isolate a
+ few more language-independent bits; change /usr/doc to
+ /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright, closes: #126924
+
+2002-02-24 14:32 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.20), developers-reference.sgml (1.79): some
+ suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
+ closes: #133953; use a new entity, debian-formal for the term
+
+2002-02-24 14:15 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * Makefile (1.16): distclean, and clean is cleaner
+
+2002-02-24 14:13 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.19), developers-reference.sgml (1.78): purge
+ references to 'frozen' distribution, which doesn't exist anymore
+
+2002-02-24 12:48 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.77): bugs closed in NMUs should uses
+ 'closes' changelog entries, closes: #133951
+
+2002-02-24 12:40 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.18), developers-reference.sgml (1.76): update the
+ "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with review by
+ Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
+
+2002-02-24 11:56 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.75): some minor cosmetics
+
+2002-02-23 10:22 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.74): Added ';' at the end of an
+ entity.
+
+2002-02-20 17:53 Gustavo Noronha <kov@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.73): added a section on how to deal
+ with unreachable (maybe-MIA) maintainers
+
+2001-12-27 01:48 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.23): Synchronised with 1.72 (no
+ real change needed, updated french version number)
+
+2001-12-26 08:00 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.72): wrong tense, noticed by Chris
+ Tillman
+
+2001-12-19 05:55 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.22): Modified translation of
+ 'General Public license'
+
+2001-12-17 18:41 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.21): Last modifications reviewed
+ by P. Batailler
+
+2001-12-12 08:46 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.20): Miscellaneous changes to
+ enhance overall coherence of the french translations
+
+2001-12-12 02:18 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.19): Synchronised with 1.71
+
+2001-12-09 07:55 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.71): mention how the vacation
+ notices should include [VAC] in the subject; change the full stop
+ into an exclamation sign in the sentence about removing the
+ on-vacation flag, many people forget this (i myself had the flag
+ turned on for weeks after return at one time :)
+
+2001-11-05 23:22 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.18): Removed some mistakes.
+
+2001-10-27 01:56 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.17): Synchronised with 1.70.
+
+2001-10-21 01:24 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * Makefile (1.15): clean is cleaner
+
+2001-10-21 01:06 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.72): perpare next version as 2.9.0
+
+2001-10-21 00:57 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.4): update for next release
+
+2001-10-18 15:37 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.70): further cleanups in the section
+ about picking the distribution
+
+2001-10-17 20:38 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.69): reordered some subsections in
+ the section about package uploads, it wasn't organized
+
+2001-10-17 20:21 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.68): combining stable with unstable
+ is deprecated in another section, this paragraph needs to be
+ removed
+
+2001-10-17 20:17 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.67): updated the section about
+ experimental (better late than never)
+
+2001-10-17 20:02 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.66): created a new subsection about
+ uploading to stable, and elaborated about that subject; removed a
+ stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about security
+ uploads (which apply to all distributions equally), and replaced
+ the nonexistent term Security Manager with security officer which I
+ saw used
+
+2001-10-03 00:37 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.16): Replaced "sévérité" by
+ "gravité" which is a better translation of "severity". Since
+ "gravité" is also used on the debian website, this replacement also
+ helps coherence throughout the french documentation.
+
+2001-10-02 03:21 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.71): shipping 2.8.9
+
+2001-10-02 03:21 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.3): update for next release
+