If you're interested in ongoing maintenance, once you've shown that
you've mastered the style of the manual with a couple accepted
-patches, you can be given SVN access. If you have already
+patches, you can be given SVN access. If you already have
access to the SVN server for other reasons, do not use it unless
authorized to do so.
-Instructions on how to get the SVN version of this software, including
-how to get SVN access, can be found at
-<URL:http://svn.debian.org/>.
+This manual is a part of the Debian Documentation Project (DDP).
+Information about SVN access for DDP can be found at
+<http://www.debian.org/doc/cvs>.
+
+If you just want to check out the current SVN version of this
+manual to create patches against, you can use the following
+command to do so:
+
+svn co svn://svn.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference
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