+developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
+ Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
+ - updated the mailing lists section (again)
+ - documented Alioth, somewhat
+ * Frédéric Bothamy
+ - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
+ - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
+ * Matt Zimmerman
+ - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
+ - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
+ - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
+ - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
+ upload
+
+ * Adam Di Carlo
+ - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
+ - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
+ Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
+ Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
+ bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
+ started.
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:56:40 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Frédéric Bothamy
+ - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
+ * Raphaël Hertzog
+ - updated documentation concerning the PTS
+ - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
+ - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
+ * Matt Zimmerman
+ - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
+ - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
+ section on security bugs; closes: #196516
+ - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
+ closes: #196555
+ * Adam Di Carlo
+ - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
+ closes: #192417
+ - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
+ - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
+ - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
+ - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
+ directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
+ distribution"
+ - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
+ it clear these are special cases
+ - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
+ closes: #195997
+ - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
+
+developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Frédéric Bothamy:
+ - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
+ - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
+
+developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
+ closes: #182614
+ - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
+ - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
+ - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - more improvements to package synopsis and description
+ - the synopsis formula changed to either
+ <package-name> is a <synopsis>
+ or
+ <package-name> is <synopsis>
+ or
+ <package-name> are <synopsis>
+ closes: #182956
+ - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
+ - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
+ - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
+ - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
+ package; closes: #187143
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Frédéric Bothamy:
+ - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
+ - proofread by Philippe Batailler
+ * Raphaël Hertzog:
+ - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
+ - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
+ - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
+ architecture-independent data bundled with programs
+ - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
+ kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
+ - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
+ right places in the document, closes: #172897
+ - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
+ closes: #174161
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - update (c) year
+ - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
+ needed
+ - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
+ - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
+ - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
+ table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
+ note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
+ package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
+ allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
+ debhelper
+ - editorial changes on material added in this version
+ - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
+ - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
+ from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
+ closes: #139957, #108416
+ - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
+ emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
+ - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
+ - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
+ - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
+ policy list
+ - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
+ for best practices for documentation
+ - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
+ new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
+ debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
+ covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
+ packages
+ - spell-checking pass
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
+ descriptions" moved under there
+ - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
+ - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
+ - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
+ subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
+ the document where these tools are discussed
+ - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
+ build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
+ - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
+ infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
+ appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
+ - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
+ and translators
+ - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
+ with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
+ that can be fixed by DDP folks
+ - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
+ after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
+ - simply PS and PDF building rules
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
+ section and adjusted links
+ - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - ChangeLog attribution updates
+ - fix typos, closes: #171781
+ - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
+ - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
+ - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
+ for debian/rules", and write an intro
+ - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
+ arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
+ - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
+ versus patching at build time" and rewritten
+ - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
+ - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
+ "Internationalization" section, and some edits
+ - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
+ "Internationalization"
+ - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
+ - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
+ - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
+ - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
+ packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
+ - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
+ - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
+ here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
+ a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
+ closes: #150384
+ - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
+ rather useless and broken
+ - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
+ names and the first word
+ - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
+ adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
+ oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
+ is 108 behind
+ - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
+ - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
+ - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - DDP publishing update
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
+ - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
+ - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
+ for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
+ - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
+ issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
+ * Raphaël Hertzog:
+ - added myself as co-author
+ - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
+ * Matt Zimmerman:
+ - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
+ Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
+ * Adam Di Carlo
+ - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
+ - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Raphaël Hertzog:
+ - Corrected several errors with —
+ - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
+ the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
+ - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
+ require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
+ - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
+ - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
+ - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
+ closes: #150392
+ - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
+ section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
+ "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
+ - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
+ housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
+ - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
+ stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
+ Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
+ - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
+ closes: #158650
+ - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
+ descriptions". closes: #158609
+ - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
+ autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
+ - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
+ replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
+ - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
+ - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
+ - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
+ - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
+ mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
+ - updated the mailing lists section
+ * Adam Di Carlo
+ - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
+ - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
+ spelling fixes
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
+