From a183b1481929d8e347586d49bb1ec920072b60f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: aba Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:24:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] more version-tracking git-svn-id: svn://anonscm.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference@3944 313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d --- debian/changelog | 2 +- developers-reference.sgml | 19 ++++--------------- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 0e79961..4957231 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland. Closes: #382721 * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking. - Closes: #339552 + Closes: #339552, #353447 -- Andreas Barth Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700 diff --git a/developers-reference.sgml b/developers-reference.sgml index 6b978e3..678e02b 100644 --- a/developers-reference.sgml +++ b/developers-reference.sgml @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ %dynamicdata; - + @@ -3220,18 +3220,6 @@ rather than doing an NMU, they should just submit worthwhile patches to the Bug Tracking System. Maintainers almost always appreciate quality patches and bug reports. - How dak detects NMUs -

-Whether an upload is treated as an NMU or as a maintainer upload by -the archive scripts and the bugtracking system (see ) is not decided by looking at the version -number (see ). Instead, an upload is handled as -an NMU if the maintainer address in the .changes file is not -binary the same as the address in the Maintainer field, or -any of the addresses the Uploaders field, of the dsc -file, and also if the maintainer address is not special (i.e. it is -not set to the QA Group address). - Terminology

There are two new terms used throughout this section: ``binary-only NMU'' @@ -3966,8 +3954,9 @@ tracking system.

It is an old tradition to acknowledge bugs fixed in non-maintainer uploads in the first changelog entry of the proper maintainer upload. -Please use the option -v to dpkg-buildpackage -to close the relevant bug report. +As we have version tracking now, +it is enough to keep the NMUed changelog entries and +just mention this fact in your own changelog entry. -- 2.30.2