+developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
+ - 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 "Voting" stubbed in Developer Duties
+ - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
+
+ - 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.
+ - update copyright date
+ - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 5 May 2002 17:57:42 -0400
+
+developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Antoine Hulin:
+ - some grammar corrections
+ - update French translation
+ * Martin Michlmayr:
+ - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
+ anymore; closes: #135559
+ - also talk about dput a tiny bit
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
+ - improve the intro
+ - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
+ that would be welcome)
+ - 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
+ - dpkg-dev-el: new section
+ - other minor wording changes
+ - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
+ - 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"
+ * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
+
+developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * from Martin Michlmayr
+ - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
+ review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
+ - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
+ closes: #133951
+ - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
+ closes: #133955
+ - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
+ closes: #133953
+ - fix some typos, closes: #133956
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
+ there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
+ find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
+ - minor build tweaks
+ - minor cosmetics
+ - isolate a few more language-independent bits
+ * from Chris Tillman
+ - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
+ closes: #126924
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
+
+developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - 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)
+ - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
+ - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
+ about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
+ talking about uploading to distributions
+ - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
+ - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
+ - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
+ * Antoine Hulin:
+ - French translation updated
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
+ - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
+ - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
+
+developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * from Josip Rodin:
+ - a few more strong words about sponsoring
+ - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
+ developers
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
+
developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
- * French version: updates
+ * French updates
* fix a typo in a link
* dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
update documentation accordingly
closes: #101676
+ * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
+ forwarding bugs upstream
+ closes: #98312
+ * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
+ entities which should be used
+ * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
+ * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
- -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:54:30 -0400
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200
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