chiark / gitweb /
joy [Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:26:13 +0000 (13:26 +0000)]
updated sect1 multiple-patches to have a better title/introduction and to mention dpatch (prompted by Joerg Jaspert)
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aph [Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:21:40 +0000 (09:21 +0000)]
commented out changes only: remove todo items
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aph [Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:10:32 +0000 (09:10 +0000)]
update copyright year
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fbothamy [Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:57:25 +0000 (23:57 +0000)]
Update french version to latest version.
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fbothamy [Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:54:47 +0000 (23:54 +0000)]
Synchronize with 1.153 and proofread by P. Batailler.
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joy [Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:03:42 +0000 (19:03 +0000)]
noted that debian-devel (not -private! boo!) can be contacted to ask about a missing maintainer; rephrased the stuff about conflicts and mentioned the ways of resolving such issues
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joy [Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:53:34 +0000 (18:53 +0000)]
replaced the mia-qa section with what Martin Michlmayr wrote, plus proofreading by myself
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joy [Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:36:28 +0000 (18:36 +0000)]
moved the contacting maintainers section above the one about being unable to contact maintainers (mmmh, logic)
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joy [Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:08:50 +0000 (20:08 +0000)]
replaced ASCII with plain text, since not all plain text is ASCII
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aph [Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:47:07 +0000 (18:47 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:45:44 +0000 (18:45 +0000)]
prepare 3.2.2
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aph [Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:44:37 +0000 (18:44 +0000)]
Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on policy
list
Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations" for
best practices for documentation
Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums; new
Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for debview,
debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now covers all
of the established, general Debian maintainer tool packages
spell-checking pass
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aph [Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:42:28 +0000 (18:42 +0000)]
ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
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aph [Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:41:08 +0000 (18:41 +0000)]
remove some todo items which are done
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:26:08 +0000 (19:26 +0000)]
Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
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joy [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 13:14:39 +0000 (13:14 +0000)]
update
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joy [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 13:09:36 +0000 (13:09 +0000)]
merged url-debian-mirror{s,ing}, the ftplist page is deprecated and the mirror page lists all
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joy [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 13:08:07 +0000 (13:08 +0000)]
slightly rewrote the mirrors section and moved it below the description of the archive (seems more logical)
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:05:15 +0000 (08:05 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:04:05 +0000 (08:04 +0000)]
prepare 3.2.1
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:00:16 +0000 (08:00 +0000)]
use the debiandoc2* tools for PS and PDF generation
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 07:23:44 +0000 (07:23 +0000)]
stop shipping SGML source, what's the point, this is a binary pkg, the
SGML doesn't have the proper build depends, you can't build it in
those dirs anyway -- much better to do 'apt-get source developers-reference'
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 07:16:25 +0000 (07:16 +0000)]
eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now with
the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably that can
be fixed by DDP folks
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 07:15:41 +0000 (07:15 +0000)]
- Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
descriptions" moved under there
- Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
- Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
- Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
the document where these tools are discussed
- Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
- Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
- README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
and translators
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 07:08:16 +0000 (07:08 +0000)]
readme for contributores, including translators
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aph [Sun, 8 Dec 2002 22:54:24 +0000 (22:54 +0000)]
Internationalized documentation had the wrong sectional capitalization
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 07:28:43 +0000 (07:28 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 07:27:53 +0000 (07:27 +0000)]
all my recent changes, and call it version 3.2
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 07:26:22 +0000 (07:26 +0000)]
Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit here
to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include a POSIX
shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH, closes:
#150384
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:53:30 +0000 (06:53 +0000)]
validation suffix rule now requires version.ent
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:49:33 +0000 (06:49 +0000)]
remove debget from tools section, add notes on more tools to document
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:35:50 +0000 (06:35 +0000)]
don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX, hardcode /usr/sbin/install-docs
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:34:47 +0000 (06:34 +0000)]
why even have a case stmt -- strip it down more
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:26:40 +0000 (06:26 +0000)]
produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:21:51 +0000 (06:21 +0000)]
move configure stuff under configure case; don't make usr/doc symlink
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 20:45:59 +0000 (20:45 +0000)]
- Sec "Common situations" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
- Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
- Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:22:54 +0000 (10:22 +0000)]
damn cvs keywords, inhibit
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:10:06 +0000 (10:10 +0000)]
- Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
- Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
for debian/rules", and write an intro
- Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
- Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
versus patching at build time" and rewritten
- Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
- Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
"Internationalization" section, and some edits
- Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
"Internationalization"
- Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common Situations"
- Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
- Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:00:59 +0000 (10:00 +0000)]
retab, no content changes
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:59:51 +0000 (09:59 +0000)]
adapt script to local context, strip out useless -V option too
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:56:32 +0000 (09:56 +0000)]
doc-check reference for best-practices, doc translations
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:50:24 +0000 (09:50 +0000)]
expand the doc-base abstract and authors
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:49:33 +0000 (09:49 +0000)]
translation status checking tool, based on documentation/doc-check
from boot-floppies source, rev 1.12
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aph [Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:21:14 +0000 (23:21 +0000)]
fix typo, closes: #171781
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aph [Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:19:55 +0000 (21:19 +0000)]
typo fix, thanks Alfie Costa
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joy [Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:36:52 +0000 (16:36 +0000)]
update
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joy [Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:30:47 +0000 (16:30 +0000)]
added spaces between © and the first year (wonder if that was intentional?); merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian section and adjusted links; added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
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aph [Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:17:31 +0000 (02:17 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:16:33 +0000 (02:16 +0000)]
prepare 3.1.2
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aph [Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:14:44 +0000 (02:14 +0000)]
Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
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aph [Thu, 28 Nov 2002 00:40:59 +0000 (00:40 +0000)]
doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
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aph [Thu, 28 Nov 2002 00:40:24 +0000 (00:40 +0000)]
debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
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joy [Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:53:37 +0000 (19:53 +0000)]
updated PUBLISHDIR
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aph [Wed, 13 Nov 2002 04:23:00 +0000 (04:23 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Wed, 13 Nov 2002 04:18:40 +0000 (04:18 +0000)]
finalize version 3.1.1
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aph [Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:38:44 +0000 (20:38 +0000)]
fix some bad URLs, notably the testing FAQ -- checkbot reports all is well now
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aph [Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:40:59 +0000 (18:40 +0000)]
fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
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aph [Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:37:50 +0000 (18:37 +0000)]
don't use caps or fullstops in changelog entries -- a bug I fixed
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aph [Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:33:43 +0000 (18:33 +0000)]
fix bad debian emacs policy, closes: #168357
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mdz [Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:07:34 +0000 (16:07 +0000)]
Security updates
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joy [Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:09:20 +0000 (21:09 +0000)]
the version of dpkg-dev that supports this feature is no longer new, so skip that; also rephrased the sentence better while i was at it
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joy [Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:01:56 +0000 (21:01 +0000)]
update
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joy [Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:00:16 +0000 (21:00 +0000)]
fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs. this should probably address the issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing stuff.
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hertzog [Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:58:32 +0000 (14:58 +0000)]
- Added myself as co-author.
- Fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance". Closes: #161488
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joy [Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:01:37 +0000 (11:01 +0000)]
update for my last change
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joy [Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:50:28 +0000 (10:50 +0000)]
updated IRC stuff based on patch from SynrG, closes: #161403
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aph [Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:32:14 +0000 (16:32 +0000)]
tagging improvements and editorial improvements in config-wise-debconf
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aph [Wed, 11 Sep 2002 02:02:56 +0000 (02:02 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Wed, 11 Sep 2002 01:58:38 +0000 (01:58 +0000)]
my changes
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aph [Wed, 11 Sep 2002 01:56:05 +0000 (01:56 +0000)]
spell checking, tag fixes, editorial review -- no new content
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hertzog [Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:08:25 +0000 (10:08 +0000)]
- Also mentions sending patchs in the BSP section.
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hertzog [Mon, 9 Sep 2002 09:46:18 +0000 (09:46 +0000)]
- Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
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hertzog [Sun, 8 Sep 2002 18:42:13 +0000 (18:42 +0000)]
- Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
closes: #150392
- Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
"Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
- Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
- Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
- Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
closes: #158650
- Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
descriptions". closes: #158609
- Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
- Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
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joy [Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:44:27 +0000 (10:44 +0000)]
updated the when-to-do-source-NMUs section a little bit, prompted by Elie Rosenblum's complaint on -devel
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mdz [Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:47:50 +0000 (15:47 +0000)]
Update security instructions to specify that uploads should not be made
to the security queue without approval
Misc fixes and cleanups to security section
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hertzog [Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:36:06 +0000 (15:36 +0000)]
* Applied patch from Matt Zimmerman for handling security related bugs.
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joy [Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:37:21 +0000 (19:37 +0000)]
renamed the testing scripts section to a more generic testing distribution, and added missing <em>s around some references to it (which were potentially confusing without that)
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joy [Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:22:49 +0000 (19:22 +0000)]
HTTP is not just usually, it's always
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joy [Sat, 17 Aug 2002 17:31:55 +0000 (17:31 +0000)]
oopsie, that URL was pointing to the wrong place :)
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joy [Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:26:03 +0000 (15:26 +0000)]
update
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joy [Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:39:39 +0000 (14:39 +0000)]
changed needlessly FTP URIs to HTTP; added debian-project
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joy [Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:23:41 +0000 (14:23 +0000)]
rewrote the mailing lists section to have logical subsections; expanded on the meanings of the core mailing lists
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joy [Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:34:12 +0000 (11:34 +0000)]
update
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joy [Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:30:54 +0000 (11:30 +0000)]
following Ryan Murray's advice, removed servers' real names and used only service names.
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joy [Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:58:01 +0000 (11:58 +0000)]
updated
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joy [Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:57:26 +0000 (11:57 +0000)]
updated (people.d.o->gluck), expanded (non-US) and mostly rewrote the Debian servers section
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joy [Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:52:20 +0000 (10:52 +0000)]
added some of my June 20th changes to the changelog
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hertzog [Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:28:54 +0000 (19:28 +0000)]
* Applied several patches.
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joy [Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:59:21 +0000 (20:59 +0000)]
language fixes in a paragraph
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joy [Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:34:58 +0000 (20:34 +0000)]
linguistic fixes from David Kimdon; other proofreading by myself, mostly changing he -> they
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hertzog [Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:58:49 +0000 (19:58 +0000)]
* New changelog entry.
* Fixed some entities (missing ";" in "—").
* Applied patch from Peter Palfrader. closes: #150427
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joy [Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:16:06 +0000 (19:16 +0000)]
removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
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hertzog [Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:30:22 +0000 (00:30 +0000)]
* Sec "Writing useful descriptions". Added a sentence about the
capitalization of the first letter.
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aph [Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:27:30 +0000 (06:27 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:26:22 +0000 (06:26 +0000)]
my changes; standardize Raphael's changelog entries
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aph [Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:19:25 +0000 (06:19 +0000)]
populate Sec "Collaborative maintenance"
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aph [Fri, 14 Jun 2002 05:15:40 +0000 (05:15 +0000)]
spelling fixes and some awkward wordings fixed
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aph [Fri, 14 Jun 2002 04:29:39 +0000 (04:29 +0000)]
more notes to myself, many probably obsolete
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hertzog [Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:31:48 +0000 (07:31 +0000)]
- Integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
Denis Barbier. Thanks Denis !
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hertzog [Sat, 8 Jun 2002 20:29:29 +0000 (20:29 +0000)]
- 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 ...
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