X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=developers-reference.sgml;h=675097fb6405008e5e2c8951ca5884a061b034af;hb=44c3d7e3ff1afecb69ef9999ec3d53a8576d0e0c;hp=5351168ce3a010a76a7ae8d98b4de207276b9384;hpb=d7a1ea13683f3ff993377f1caab86a4a149440dd;p=developers-reference.git diff --git a/developers-reference.sgml b/developers-reference.sgml index 5351168..675097f 100644 --- a/developers-reference.sgml +++ b/developers-reference.sgml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ %commondata; - + @@ -3100,6 +3100,7 @@ This way, `testing' should always be close to being a release candidate. Please see below for details. Updates from unstable +

The scripts that update the testing distribution are run each day after the installation of the updated packages. They generate the Packages files for the testing distribution, but @@ -3304,7 +3305,7 @@ through testing-proposed-updates of the package version 1.2.

- What are release-critical bugs, and how do they get counted? + What are release-critical bugs, and how do they get counted?

All bugs of some higher severities are by default considered release-critical; currently, these are critical, grave and serious bugs.

@@ -4106,17 +4107,17 @@ LOCPATH=$LOCALE_PATH LC_ALL=$LOCALE_NAME.$LOCALE_CHARSET date Make transition packages deborphan compliant

Deborphan is a program helping users to detect which packages can be safely -removed from the system, ie the ones that have no packages depending on +removed from the system, i.e. the ones that have no packages depending on them. The default operation is to search only within the libs and oldlibs sections, to hunt down unused libraries. But when passed the right argument, it tries to catch other useless packages.

-For example, with --guess-dummy, tries to search all transitionnal packages +For example, with --guess-dummy, tries to search all transitional packages which were needed for upgrade but which can now safely be removed. For that, it looks for the string "dummy" or "transitional" in their short description.

-So, when you are creating ssuch a package, please make sure to add this text +So, when you are creating such a package, please make sure to add this text to your short description. If you are looking for example, just run: apt-cache search .|grep dummy or apt-cache search .|grep transitional.