+ * 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
+ - 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
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>