X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=debian%2Fchangelog;h=d9a282ddae9275de38199e7180b2cd6335e90f65;hb=e4285cf6103cd328a1f5485f3e6db2a88a2605a2;hp=0d82cf8f9f89fbfaabedd985ed894459ab09f3d0;hpb=1dbc65343e41f03c9e0dfca6b8264142acba27f2;p=developers-reference.git diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 0d82cf8..d9a282d 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,21 +1,113 @@ developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low * Adam Di Carlo: - - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer - - update copyright date - - Sec "Getting started": link to New Maintainers' Guide + + - 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" - - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" for recommended ways to contribute - to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; Ch "Interaction with - Prospective Developers" moved into this chapter and renamed to Sec - "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers" - 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 with for files and + directories; since and 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/, + http://bugs.debian.org/ 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. + - Completed Sec "Bug housekeeping". closes: #39519 + - Completed Sec "Voting" + - Completed 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 ... + + * Antoine Hulin: + - update French translation - -- Adam Di Carlo Sun, 5 May 2002 13:24:03 -0700 + -- Adam Di Carlo Wed, 8 May 2002 13:07:11 -0700 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low