-developers-reference (2.12) unstable; urgency=low
+developers-reference (3.4.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
+ * NOT RELEASED YET
+ * Removed hp.debian.or.jp reference. Closes: 561597
+
+ [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+ * Update description of the PTS "summary" keyword. Thanks to
+ Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #469154
+ * Add accent on my first name in debian/control.
+ * Use "3.0 (native)" source format with bzip2 compression.
+ Created debian/source/{format,options} for this.
+ * Update guideline for override change to point to BTS
+ instead of email. Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the
+ patch. Closes: #540231
+ * Include full URL to the README of the upload queue. Thanks to Simon
+ McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #540974
+ * The key protecting #debian-private is now stored on a file
+ on master.debian.org, it's no more required to search into
+ the debian-private archives. Thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
+ for the patch. Closes: #548823
+ * Update information about upload queues. Thanks to Simon McVittie
+ <smcv@debian.org> for the patches:
+ - point to official names {ftp,ssh}.upload.debian.org. Closes: #554054
+ - drop references to non-working queues. Closes: #554077
+ * Mention docbook, POD and reST as convenient formats to write new manual
+ pages. Thanks to Charles Plessy and the debian-mentors list
+ for the idea and the patch. Closes: #557298
+ * Update several sections to take into account the new source formats “3.0
+ (quilt)” and “3.0 (native)”. Closes: #561952
+ * Drop reference to “dbs” in the section about including binary files.
+
+ -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:49:40 +0900
+
+developers-reference (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Fixed working of the repackaged tarballs section to avoid giving the
+ impression that it's a standard packages must comply with. Closes:
+ #489135.
+ * Specify that bugs from removed packages must be closed in foo+rm.
+ Closes: #491839.
+ * Change the maintainer address to debian-policy@, based on discussion
+ on debian-devel@.
+ * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No changes needed.
+ * Update copyright notices and list of authors.
+
+ -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:56:19 +0200
+
+developers-reference (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Applied patch from Justin B Rye that improves the discussion on writing
+ package descriptions. Closes: #516436.
+ * Lenny has been released, update the list of codenames. Closes: #527008.
+ * Applied patch from Paul Wise that adds a paragraph about hostile
+ upstreams. Closes: #523985.
+ * Applied patch from Charles Plessy about providing information to the
+ ftpmasters. Closes: #526410.
+ * In the section about patch systems, mention quilt (wasn not
+ mentionned before) and describe it as the recommended patch system.
+ also mention dpatch and cdbs' patch system. drop dbs. Closes: #525668.
+ * Added a note in the wanna-build section to mention
+ http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt. Closes: #516375.
+ * Clarified NMU versioning to reflect existing practices. Closes: #532945.
+ * s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section
+ about repackaged upstream tarballs.
+ * Mention the Gandi.net hosting discount in section 4.13.
+ Applied patch from Tim Retout. Closes: #538245.
+ * Reduce length of title of L10N section so that it is no longer split.
+ Applied patch from Justin B Rye. Closes: #534688.
+ * Bumped debhelper compat level to 5 (4 was deprecated)
+ * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No changes needed.
+ * Added pointer to debian-project@ post about the wanna-build team.
+
+ -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:28:04 +0200
+
+developers-reference (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ [ Raphael Hertzog ]
+ * Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
+ website.
+
+ [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
+ * Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
+ The most important changes are:
+ + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
+ + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
+ provided.
+ Other fixes:
+ + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
+ with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
+ + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
+ distinction. Closes: #464230.
+ + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
+ + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
+ * Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
+ W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
+ * Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
+ Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
+ Closes: #487664.
+ * Update instructions on the delayed queue.
+ Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
+ Closes: #512529.
+ * Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
+ Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
+ Closes: #492661.
+ * Improved README.contrib. Mention command to checkout the SVN
+ version. Thanks to Christine Spang for the patch.
+ Closes: #500371.
+ * Document usertags. Thanks to Chris Lamb for the patch.
+ Closes: #367876.
+ * Updated documentation on translation updates.
+ Thanks to Christian Perrier for the patch.
+ Closes: #474879.
+ * Update instructions on handling of security issues.
+ Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
+ Closes: #512620, #510783.
+
+ -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:57:54 +0100
+
+developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
+ * Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
+ * Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. Closes: #470754.
+ * linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.
+ * Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.
+ * Collaborative Maintenance: the 'global part' of debian/control
+ is the first paragraph, about the source package. Closes: #483231.
+ * debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.
+ * Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package.
+ Closes: #483225.
+ * README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
+ Closes: #278267.
+ * build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
+ Closes: #376582.
+
+ [ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
+ * Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
+ * In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
+ release codenames in <literal>
+ * Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
+ doesn't exist anymore.
+ * Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
+ thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
+ * Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
+ and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
+ * Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
+ the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
+ fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandings
+ about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
+ * Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
+ distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
+ team before upload. Closes: #459343
+ * Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
+ * Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
+ need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
+ hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
+ on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806
+ * Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
+ pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
+ #467102
+ * Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
+ description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
+ at it.
+ * Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
+ have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
+ debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
+ * Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
+ ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
+ Thomas. Closes: #485837
+ * debian/control:
+ + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
+ + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!
+
+ -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:45:49 +0200
+
+developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ [ Andreas Barth ]
+ * Packaging changes:
+ - bump standards-version to 3.7.3 (no change)
+ - fix debian/copyright
+ - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
+ - add pdf for French version.
+ * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
+ * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
+ Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
+ * Keyring now uses RT. Closes: #428846
+ * Document -dbg-packages within BPs. Thanks, Joey Hess. Closes: #420540
+ * NMUs now also close bugs. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum. Closes: #419507
+ * Fix documentation about gender neutral. Closes: #384178
+ * Fix typo. Closes: #405453
+ * More details on how to write documentation. Thanks, Josh Triplett.
+ Closes: #422750
+ * Add XS-Vcs-*. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli. Closes: #391023
+ * Small brushup to debconf description. Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.
+ Closes: #401415
+ * Document Team-Maintainence better. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum.
+ Closes: #410159
+ * Add link to more removal ressources. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt,
+ Justin Pryzby. Closes: #412757, #356720
+ * Repacking source packages need to be documented in copyright.
+ Thanks, Russ Allbery. Closes: #413320
+ * Better describe version of debian native packages NMUs. Closes: #405818
+ * Source, HTML and text are now encoded in UTF-8. Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
+ Closes: #373816
+ * Source is now DocBook XML instead of debiandoc. Closes: #374220
+
+ [ Raphael Hertzog ]
+ * Add a link to enrico's excellent Debian Community Guidelines.
+ * Recommend the use of DSA's request tracker instead of mailing them.
+ * Remove reference to #debian-sf, #debian-bsd which don't exist anymore. Put
+ a reference to #debian-dpkg instead.
+ * Remove all stuff concerning non-US.
+ * Update information concerning Alioth.
+ * Update information concerning the Package Tracking System.
+ * Mention Alioth as the main resource for VCS repositories and deprecate
+ cvs.debian.org.
+ * Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.
+ * Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
+ #445642
+ * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields pointing to the new SVN
+ repository.
+
+ -- W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:16:40 +0000
+
+developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
+ Closes: #350792
+ * fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
+ * use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
+ Closes: #376411
+ * better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
+ the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
+ * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
+ Closes: #382721
+ * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
+ Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
+ * Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
+ Closes: #361311
+ * Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
+ Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
+ * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
+ to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
+ * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
+ * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
+ * stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
+ Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
+ Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
+ * add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
+ * add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
+ 20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
+ Closes: #382477
+ * section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
+ Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
+ * binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
+ Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
+ * Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
+ * Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
+ * Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
+ * pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
+ * clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
+ * more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
+ Closes: #356643
+
+ * Frédéric Bothamy
+ - French translation updated to version 3.3.8
+
+ -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
+
+developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Andreas Barth:
+ - adjust information about distributions with reality.
+ - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
+ - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
+ - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
+ - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
+ - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
+ Closes: #298016
+ - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
+ Closes: #302000
+ - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
+ Closes: #299217
+ - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
+ Closes: #309502
+ - non-us discontinued.
+ - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
+ Closes: #341197
+ - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
+ Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
+ - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
+ - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
+ - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
+ - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
+ Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
+ - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
+ - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
+ - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
+ - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
+ - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
+ - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
+ - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
+ - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
+ - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
+ - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
+ - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
+ Closes: #351255
+ - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
+ - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
+ Closes: #306120
+ - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
+
+ * Frédéric Bothamy
+ - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
+
+ -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
+
+developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Andreas Barth
+ - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
+ - madison is on merkel.
+ - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
+ - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
+ - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
+ - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
+ - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
+ - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
+ Closes: #285458
+ - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
+ - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
+ - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
+ - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
+ - sync NM rules with reality.
+ * Frédéric Bothamy
+ - French translation updated to version 3.3.6
+
+ -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:49 -0700
+
+developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Andreas Barth
+ - uploads to more than one dist are not possible.
+ - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213
+ - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048
+ - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464
+ - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298
+ - spelling, grammer fixes.
+ Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208
+ - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968
+ - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814
+ - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021
+ - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654
+ - add myself to uploaders.
+ - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156
+ - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845
+ - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402
+ - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961
+ - add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
+ - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
+ - add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
+ - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
+ - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
+ - updated information about testing distribution. Closes: #266649.
+ - rewrote the NMU section, and
+ + made the possible severities of "target bugs" clearer. Closes: #233088.
+ + mention QA uploads. Closes: #202416.
+ + add -B for binNMUs, and local debsign usage. Closes: #208839.
+ + warning about breaking all-packages by binNMU. Closes: #213348.
+ - add information about gpg usage. Closes: #175815.
+ - make key replacement instructions more details. Closes: #275921
+ - typo and language fixes. Thanks, Era Eriksson. Closes: #277576
+ - add hints about debconf templates from Christian Perrier.
+ * Matt Zimmerman
+ - Security uploads get urgency=high
+ - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
+ * Frédéric Bothamy
+ - French translation updated to version 3.3.5
+
+ -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:07:26 +0100
+
+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
+ - build refinements
+ - 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 14:09:48 -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
+
+developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Adam Di Carlo:
- - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
- welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
- * NOT YET READY FOR RELEASE
+ - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
+
+ - 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 "The Developers Database" added under Resources
+ - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
+ for one package
+
+ - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
+ - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
+ we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
+ - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
+ - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
+ - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
+ - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
+ - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
+ directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
+ work-around with <...>
+ - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
+ - update copyright date
+ - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
+ - spell check and grammar corrections
+ - s/GPG/GnuPG/
+
+ * Raphael Hertzog:
+ - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
+ closes: #110310
+ - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
+ recompile"; closes: #102626
+ - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
+ - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
+ Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
+ chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
+ - indicate 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
+ - explain how 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
+ - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
+ also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
+ - 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 pain 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"
+ - 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
+ - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
+ - new Sec "Voting"
+ - new Sec "Documentation"
+ - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
+ - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
+ "Being kind to porter" too
+ - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
+ - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
+ - 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
+ - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
+ Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
+
+ * Antoine Hulin:
+ - update French translation
- -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 3 May 2002 13:19:22 -0400
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200
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