-developers-reference (2.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
+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 Sec "Documentation" stubbed out
+
+ - 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.
+ - 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
+ - indicat 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 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
+ - Various 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.
+
+ * Antoine Hulin:
+ - update French translation
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 8 May 2002 13:07:11 -0700
+
+developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Antoine Hulin:
- some grammar corrections
- update French translation
- * from Martin Michlmayr
+ * Martin Michlmayr:
- changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
- anymore, talk about dput a bit; closes: #135559
-
- -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:00:55 -0500
+ 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