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"
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
+ - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
+ for one package
- Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
- Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
- s/GPG/GnuPG/
* Raphael Hertzog:
- - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example.
+ - 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
- 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;
+ - indicate 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"
+ - explain how 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
+ - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
- http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility.
+ 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.
+ also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
+ - 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
+ 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
+ - 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
+ - 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".
+ - 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",
+ Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
+ - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
+ Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
+ - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
+ - new Sec "Voting"
+ - new 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 ...
- - Integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
- Denis Barbier. Thanks Denis !
+ "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
+ can be improved
+ - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
+ Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
* Antoine Hulin:
- update French translation
- -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 8 May 2002 13:07:11 -0700
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
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