From: aba Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:06:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: delayed queue, spelling X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b67a21c0c5698b8c8351633c71ea1e9368fa37d6;p=developers-reference.git delayed queue, spelling git-svn-id: svn://anonscm.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference@3948 313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d --- diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 7dc71e2..7aa606c 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738 * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582 + * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907 + * stop using capitals, minor fixes. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst. + Closes: #368046 -- Andreas Barth Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700 diff --git a/developers-reference.sgml b/developers-reference.sgml index 3a5f14d..de70776 100644 --- a/developers-reference.sgml +++ b/developers-reference.sgml @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ %dynamicdata; - + @@ -1884,7 +1884,7 @@ and the Debian package . Delayed uploads are done for the moment via the delayed queue at gluck. The upload-directory is gluck:~tfheen/DELAYED/[012345678]-day. -0-day is uploaded approximately one hour before dinstall runs. +0-day is uploaded multiple times per day to ftp-master.

With a fairly recent dput, this section @@ -1901,7 +1901,8 @@ prescription found in applies here as well. Security uploads

-Do NOT upload a package to the security upload queue (oldstable-security, +Do NOT upload a package to the security upload queue +(oldstable-security, stable-security, etc.) without prior authorization from the security team. If the package does not exactly meet the team's requirements, it will cause many problems and delays in dealing with the unwanted upload. @@ -4326,7 +4327,7 @@ soon as is possible. boolean:

-A true/false choice. Remember: true/false, NOT YES/NO... +A true/false choice. Remember: true/false, not yes/no... select:

@@ -4433,7 +4434,7 @@ Below are specific instructions for properly writing the Description String/password templates

- The short description is a prompt and NOT a title. Avoid + The short description is a prompt and not a title. Avoid question style prompts ("IP Address?") in favour of "opened" prompts ("IP address:"). The use of colons is recommended. @@ -4453,7 +4454,7 @@ Below are specific instructions for properly writing the Description question is rather long (remember that translations are often longer than original versions) - The extended description should NOT include a question. + The extended description should not include a question. Again, please avoid referring to specific interface widgets. A common mistake for such templates is "if you answer Yes"-type @@ -4463,7 +4464,8 @@ Below are specific instructions for properly writing the Description Select/Multiselect

- The short description is a prompt and NOT a title. Do NOT use useless + The short description is a prompt and not a title. + Do not use useless "Please choose..." constructions. Users are clever enough to figure out they have to choose something...:) @@ -4482,7 +4484,8 @@ Below are specific instructions for properly writing the Description The extended description is what will be displayed as a more detailed explanation of the note. Phrases, no terse writing style. - DO NOT ABUSE DEBCONF. Notes are the most common way to abuse + Do not abuse debconf. + Notes are the most common way to abuse debconf. As written in debconf-devel manual page: it's best to use them only for warning about very serious problems. The NEWS.Debian or README.Debian files are the appropriate location for a lot of notes. @@ -4535,7 +4538,7 @@ confusing: the translators may put their own choice Do NOT use empty default field. If you don't want to use default values, do not use Default at all.

-If you use po-debconf (and you SHOULD, see 2.2), consider making this +If you use po-debconf (and you should, see 2.2), consider making this field translatable, if you think it may be translated.

If the default value may vary depending on language/country (for @@ -4823,7 +4826,8 @@ the following: It unpacks the tarball in an empty temporary directory by doing -zcat path/to/<packagename>_<upstream-version>.orig.tar.gz | tar xf - + +zcat path/to/<packagename>_<upstream-version>.orig.tar.gz | tar xf - + If, after this, the temporary directory contains nothing but one @@ -4923,7 +4927,8 @@ point). should use <packagename>-<upstream-version>.orig as the name of the top-level directory in its tarball. This makes it possible to -distinguish pristine tarballs from repackaged ones. + +distinguish pristine tarballs from repackaged ones. + should be gzipped with maximal compression.