X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=developers-reference.sgml;h=ab5b26f621930ec37d376aadffc170d095cc06e4;hb=3d642167f1c238c85888f91bf577b3dc8578d52c;hp=3369c851e8762ee63fea7a7d0054362a346a320d;hpb=9897b3b5f6b66ddca2a68b562455b1b13aa4f3c7;p=developers-reference.git diff --git a/developers-reference.sgml b/developers-reference.sgml index 3369c85..ab5b26f 100644 --- a/developers-reference.sgml +++ b/developers-reference.sgml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ %commondata; - +
The Package Tracking System (PTS) is basically a tool to track by mail
the activity of a source package. You just have to subscribe
@@ -1567,7 +1580,7 @@ It is technically possible to upload a package into several distributions
at the same time but it usually doesn't make sense to use that feature
because the dependencies of the package may vary with the distribution.
In particular, it never makes sense to combine the experimental
-distribution with anything else.
+distribution with anything else (see ).
@@ -1830,13 +1843,23 @@ according to their licensing, e.g. main, contrib and
non-free. This is described in another section, .
-
+Every developer has to be able to work with the Debian
-Often as a package maintainer, you find bugs in other packages or else
-have bugs reported to your packages which need to be reassigned. The
-
+Operations such as reassigning bugs to other packages, merging separate
+bug reports about the same issue, or reopening bugs when they are
+prematurely closed, are handled using the so-called control mail server.
+All of the commands available in this server are described in the
+
@@ -3067,22 +3090,22 @@ documentation and examples (in
A single source package will often build several binary packages,
-either to provide several flavors of the same software (examples are
-the
The second case can be easily managed in
The first case is a bit more difficult since it involves multiple
-recompiles of the same software but with different configure
-options. The