improved the general bugs section

[developers-reference.git] / ChangeLog

2003-02-24 13:29  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.141): prepare 3.3 for release

2003-02-24 13:12  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.191): two little updates

2003-02-23 13:54  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.140): recent changes, date burn the changelog
        entry -- I think we are ready for release

2003-02-23 13:54  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.53), developers-reference.sgml (1.190): primary
        author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove emails
        from other authors to prevent spam

2003-02-23 13:44  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.189): bpp-debian-maint-scripts -
        move down to where debconf is, no content changes at all
        
        bpp-debian-control - more suggestions from IRC

2003-02-23 12:59  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.23): clean is cleaner

2003-02-23 12:58  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.188): some changes to
        bpp-debian-control from Sebastian Rittau

2003-02-23 03:53  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * .cvsignore (1.7): [no log message]

2003-02-23 03:48  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.187), debian/changelog (1.139):
        rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
        from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, and discussions on bugs
        139957 and 108416

2003-02-22 17:16  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.186): another typo fix and a
        clarification of my sentence

2003-02-22 17:12  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.185): removed the extra copy of
        life, universe and everything ;) and tidied up another paragraph

2003-02-22 16:05  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.184): Sec bpp-archindepdata:
        editorial changes

2003-02-22 15:59  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.183): bpp-archindepdata: eliminate
        leading space, no change in content at all

2003-02-22 15:57  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.182): move bpp-debian-changelog to
        be right after bpp-debian-control section

2003-02-22 15:54  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: changelog (1.138), control (1.17), tocsubstvars (1.3):
        proper escaping of single quotes in the pkg description/TOC
        requires newest debhelper

2003-02-22 15:51  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.52), developers-reference.sgml (1.181):
        s|bugs.debian.org|&bugs-host;|
        s|<email>control@bugs.debian.org</email>|&email-bts-control;|
        
        <sect1>When bugs are closed by new uploads -- minor editorial
        changes
        
        <sect>Best practices for debian/changelog -- substantial editing,
        although mostly editorial, few content changes
        
        in "Tools", debdiff and dpkg-depcheck link to their package,
        devscripts

2003-02-22 14:15  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.51), developers-reference.sgml (1.180): tidied up
        the db.d.o stuff

2003-02-22 13:54  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.179): tidied up the vacation section

2003-02-22 13:36  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.178): rephrased and expanded the
        voting section a little bit

2003-02-22 13:14  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.177): moved the remaining sections
        that aren't just about uploads up one level

2003-02-19 05:50  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.41): dpkg-parsechangelog is noisy when you make a
        syntax error, but we don't need that noisiness here

2003-02-19 05:48  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.176): plug bpp-debian-changelog a
        little bit

2003-02-15 20:47  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.175), debian/changelog (1.137):
        minor typographical changes

2003-02-15 07:03  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.174), debian/changelog (1.136):
        added a link to the policy, and explained the current practice in
        the synopsis section. this is a compromise as it doesn't expressly
        conflict with Manoj's or jaq's POV :) closes: #174161

2003-02-15 06:29  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.173), debian/changelog (1.135):
        debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, closes: #172897

2003-02-14 10:02  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.172): better phrased

2003-02-14 09:52  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.171), debian/changelog (1.134):
        added best practices for debian/changelog, based on a patch from
        Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388

2003-02-14 05:40  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.170): another sentence to clarify it
        further

2003-02-12 09:42  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.169), debian/changelog (1.133):
        added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
        architecture-independent data bundled with programs

2003-01-27 15:21  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: rules (1.40), tocsubstvars (1.2): use of tocsubstvars,
        minor cosmetics and notes

2003-01-27 14:45  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: .cvsignore (1.2), changelog (1.132): recent changes

2003-01-27 14:41  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/tocsubstvars (1.1): script to make the manual TOC into a
        substvar for debian/control description use

2003-01-26 06:01  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.39): :)

2003-01-26 04:19  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/control (1.16): multiple packages, use the english TOC for
        all until we can use UTF8 data here

2003-01-26 04:18  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.22): top-level makefile deletes target on error

2003-01-26 04:16  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * .cvsignore (1.6), developers-reference.desc (1.13),
        developers-reference.fr.desc (1.2), developers-reference.ja.desc
        (1.2), debian/.cvsignore (1.1), debian/changelog (1.131),
        debian/compat (1.1), debian/developers-reference-fr.doc-base (1.1),
        debian/developers-reference-ja.doc-base (1.1),
        debian/developers-reference.doc-base (1.1), debian/postinst (1.8),
        debian/prerm (1.7), debian/rules (1.38): convert to debhelper
        (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer needed
        
        split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages

2003-01-22 20:16  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.34), developers-reference.ja.sgml
        (1.12): removing old tags from translations. hope it isn't a major
        screwup for .ja

2003-01-22 20:13  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.168), common.ent (1.50):
        file-bts-mailing (server-request) doesn't really provide more
        information on override files, and file-bts-info (Developer) now
        has a maintincorrect anchor in it, so use that

2003-01-22 20:04  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/TODO (1.7): oh, look, i fixed that.

2003-01-22 20:02  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.130): update

2003-01-22 19:59  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.167): the ordering of sections and
        their content in the packages chapter was SNAFU; this should fix
        most of that. (note to translators: the bottom, larger part of this
        diff is because of moving sections around, no content changes)

2003-01-22 17:42  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.166): alleviating some of the
        confusion with sections and subsections, prompted by Florian
        Hinzmann's mail on -policy; fixing some weird sections (the package
        uploads chapter needs more work...)

2003-01-19 17:17  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.165): a better explanation for the
        which(1) situation

2003-01-19 17:09  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.164): irc alias was updated to
        freenode; mention oftc

2003-01-19 17:05  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.49), developers-reference.sgml (1.163): slightly
        rearranged the db.d.o section

2003-01-19 16:44  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.48): hmm, www.d.o wasn't in the entity

2003-01-19 16:42  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.162): describe/plug the testing web
        page better

2003-01-19 15:57  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.12), developers-reference.fr.desc
        (1.1), developers-reference.ja.desc (1.1), debian/changelog
        (1.129), debian/postinst (1.7), debian/prerm (1.6), debian/rules
        (1.37): split translations into different doc-base files

2003-01-18 11:25  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.161), debian/changelog (1.128): -
        Updated the PTS doc with the "ddtp" keyword.

2003-01-02 12:55  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.160): oops

2003-01-02 08:26  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.159): updated sect1 multiple-patches
        to have a better title/introduction and to mention dpatch (prompted
        by Joerg Jaspert)

2003-01-02 04:21  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.158): commented out changes only:
        remove todo items

2003-01-02 04:10  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.157), debian/changelog (1.127),
        debian/copyright (1.5): update copyright year

2003-01-01 18:57  Fr?d?ric Bothamy <fbothamy@mail.dotcom.fr>

        * debian/changelog (1.126): Update french version to latest
        version.

2003-01-01 18:54  Fr?d?ric Bothamy <fbothamy@mail.dotcom.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.33): Synchronize with 1.153 and
        proofread by P. Batailler.

2002-12-21 14:03  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.156): 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

2002-12-21 13:53  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.155): replaced the mia-qa section
        with what Martin Michlmayr wrote, plus proofreading by myself

2002-12-21 13:36  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.154): moved the contacting
        maintainers section above the one about being unable to contact
        maintainers (mmmh, logic)

2002-12-12 15:08  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.153): replaced ASCII with plain
        text, since not all plain text is ASCII

2002-12-12 13:47  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.13): update for next release

2002-12-12 13:45  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.125): prepare 3.2.2

2002-12-12 13:44  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.152): 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

2002-12-12 13:42  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.36): ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir

2002-12-12 13:41  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/TODO (1.6): remove some todo items which are done

2002-12-09 14:26  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: changelog (1.124), control (1.15): Policy compliance
        checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed

2002-12-09 08:14  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.123): update

2002-12-09 08:09  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.47): merged url-debian-mirror{s,ing}, the ftplist
        page is deprecated and the mirror page lists all

2002-12-09 08:08  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.151): slightly rewrote the mirrors
        section and moved it below the description of the archive (seems
        more logical)

2002-12-09 03:05  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.12): update for next release

2002-12-09 03:04  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.122): prepare 3.2.1

2002-12-09 03:00  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.21): use the debiandoc2* tools for PS and PDF
        generation

2002-12-09 02:23  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.35): 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'

2002-12-09 02:16  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.34): 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

2002-12-09 02:15  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.46), developers-reference.sgml (1.150):     - 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

2002-12-09 02:08  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * README-contrib (1.1): readme for contributores, including
        translators

2002-12-08 17:54  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.149): Internationalized
        documentation had the wrong sectional capitalization

2002-12-07 02:28  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.11): update for next release

2002-12-07 02:27  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.121): all my recent changes, and call it
        version 3.2

2002-12-07 02:26  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.45), developers-reference.sgml (1.148): 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

2002-12-07 01:53  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.20): validation suffix rule now requires version.ent

2002-12-07 01:49  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.147): remove debget from tools
        section, add notes on more tools to document

2002-12-07 01:35  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/prerm (1.5): don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX,
        hardcode /usr/sbin/install-docs

2002-12-07 01:34  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/postinst (1.6): why even have a case stmt -- strip it down
        more

2002-12-07 01:26  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.33): produce md5sums file; break out a 'test'
        target

2002-12-07 01:21  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/postinst (1.5): move configure stuff under configure case;
        don't make usr/doc symlink

2002-12-06 15:45  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.44), developers-reference.sgml (1.146): - 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

2002-12-06 05:22  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * translation-status (1.4): damn cvs keywords, inhibit

2002-12-06 05:10  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.145): - 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

2002-12-06 05:00  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * translation-status (1.3): retab, no content changes

2002-12-06 04:59  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * translation-status (1.2): adapt script to local context, strip
        out useless -V option too

2002-12-06 04:56  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.43): doc-check reference for best-practices, doc
        translations

2002-12-06 04:50  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.11): expand the doc-base abstract
        and authors

2002-12-06 04:49  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * translation-status (1.1): translation status checking tool, based
        on documentation/doc-check from boot-floppies source, rev 1.12

2002-12-05 18:21  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.144): fix typo, closes: #171781

2002-12-05 16:19  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.143): typo fix, thanks Alfie Costa

2002-12-03 11:36  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.120): update

2002-12-03 11:30  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.142): added spaces between &copy;
        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

2002-11-27 21:17  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.10): update for next release

2002-11-27 21:16  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.119): prepare 3.1.2

2002-11-27 21:14  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.141): Sec "Handling debconf
        translations", updates from Martin Quinson for po-debconf with
        minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007

2002-11-27 19:40  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.10): doc-base file includes French
        and Japanese files

2002-11-27 19:40  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.140): debsign invocation was
        slightly wrong, closes: #170523

2002-11-18 14:53  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.19): updated PUBLISHDIR

2002-11-12 23:23  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.9): update for next release

2002-11-12 23:18  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.118): finalize version 3.1.1

2002-11-11 15:38  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.42), developers-reference.sgml (1.139),
        debian/changelog (1.117): fix some bad URLs, notably the testing
        FAQ -- checkbot reports all is well now

2002-11-11 13:40  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.138), debian/changelog (1.116): fix
        a grammar typo, closes: #166098

2002-11-11 13:37  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.115): don't use caps or fullstops in
        changelog entries -- a bug I fixed

2002-11-11 13:33  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.41): fix bad debian emacs policy, closes: #168357

2002-10-21 12:07  Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.137), debian/changelog (1.114):
        Security updates

2002-10-10 17:09  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.136): 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

2002-10-10 17:01  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.113): update

2002-10-10 17:00  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.40), developers-reference.sgml (1.135):
        fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs. this should probably
        address the issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing
        stuff.

2002-09-21 10:58  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.134), debian/changelog (1.112): -
        Added myself as co-author.  - Fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative
        maintenance". Closes: #161488

2002-09-19 07:01  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.111): update for my last change

2002-09-19 06:50  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.39), developers-reference.sgml (1.133): updated IRC
        stuff based on patch from SynrG, closes: #161403

2002-09-11 12:32  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.132): tagging improvements and
        editorial improvements in config-wise-debconf

2002-09-10 22:02  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.8): update for next release

2002-09-10 21:58  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.110): my changes

2002-09-10 21:56  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.131): spell checking, tag fixes,
        editorial review -- no new content

2002-09-09 06:08  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.130): - Also mentions sending patchs
        in the BSP section.

2002-09-09 05:46  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.129), debian/changelog (1.109):    
        - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".

2002-09-08 14:42  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.38), developers-reference.sgml (1.128),
        debian/changelog (1.108): - 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

2002-09-03 06:44  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.127): updated the
        when-to-do-source-NMUs section a little bit, prompted by Elie
        Rosenblum's complaint on -devel

2002-08-29 11:47  Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.126): Update security instructions
        to specify that uploads should not be made to the security queue
        without approval Misc fixes and cleanups to security section

2002-08-29 11:36  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.37), developers-reference.sgml (1.125),
        debian/changelog (1.107): * Applied patch from Matt Zimmerman for
        handling security related bugs.

2002-08-17 15:37  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.124): 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)

2002-08-17 15:22  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.123): HTTP is not just usually, it's
        always

2002-08-17 13:31  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.36), developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.32),
        developers-reference.ja.sgml (1.11), developers-reference.sgml
        (1.122): oopsie, that URL was pointing to the wrong place :)

2002-08-16 11:26  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.106): update

2002-08-16 10:39  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.35): changed needlessly FTP URIs to HTTP; added
        debian-project

2002-08-16 10:23  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.121): rewrote the mailing lists
        section to have logical subsections; expanded on the meanings of
        the core mailing lists

2002-08-16 07:34  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.105): update

2002-08-16 07:30  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.34), developers-reference.sgml (1.120): following
        Ryan Murray's advice, removed servers' real names and used only
        service names.

2002-08-07 07:58  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.104): updated

2002-08-07 07:57  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.33), developers-reference.sgml (1.119): updated
        (people.d.o->gluck), expanded (non-US) and mostly rewrote the
        Debian servers section

2002-08-07 06:52  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.103): added some of my June 20th changes to
        the changelog

2002-06-24 15:28  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.118), debian/changelog (1.102): *
        Applied several patches.

2002-06-20 16:59  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.117): language fixes in a paragraph

2002-06-20 16:34  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.116): linguistic fixes from David
        Kimdon; other proofreading by myself, mostly changing he -> they

2002-06-19 15:58  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.115), debian/changelog (1.101): *
        New changelog entry.  * Fixed some entities (missing ";" in
        "&mdash;").  * Applied patch from Peter Palfrader. closes: #150427

2002-06-19 15:16  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.114): removed obsolete, needless
        dupload variables

2002-06-15 20:30  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.113): * Sec "Writing useful
        descriptions". Added a sentence about the   capitalization of the
        first letter.

2002-06-14 02:27  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.7): update for next release

2002-06-14 02:26  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.100): my changes; standardize Raphael's
        changelog entries

2002-06-14 02:19  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.112): populate Sec "Collaborative
        maintenance"

2002-06-14 01:15  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.111): spelling fixes and some
        awkward wordings fixed

2002-06-14 00:29  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/TODO (1.5): more notes to myself, many probably obsolete

2002-06-10 03:31  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.32), developers-reference.sgml (1.110),
        debian/changelog (1.99): - Integrated Sec "Handling debconf
        translations" contributed by   Denis Barbier. Thanks Denis !

2002-06-08 16:29  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.31), developers-reference.sgml (1.109),
        debian/changelog (1.98): - 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 ...

2002-05-23 20:17  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.30), developers-reference.sgml (1.108),
        debian/changelog (1.97): - Completed Sec "Voting" - Completed Sec
        "Documentation" - Added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources
        chapter.  - Added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the
          being kind to porter too.  - Extended the explanation about
        devscripts.  - Completed Sec "Helper scripts"

2002-05-23 16:03  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.107), debian/changelog (1.96): -
        Completed Sec Bug housekeeping. closes: #39519 - Stubbed sections
        for all ideas for "Best Packaging Practices". We have   to either
        fill them or comment them out. I've put some notes about   the
        content of each of those sections to help the writers.

2002-05-12 04:36  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.106): - Fixed the URL in Sec "Bug
        Reporting"

2002-05-11 23:33  Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.ja.sgml (1.10): Sorry, this bugs broke DDP
        site build process.
        
        I saw simple typos (missing ";") and <ftppath>-tags which does not
        exist in English.  This was good iontension but used in conflict
        with the current common.ent.
        
        I hopefully used 8-bit clean editor (vimand  mcedit in LC_ALL=C). 
        I do not have LANG=ja_JP in my system :( Shame on me.
        
        Now DDP site shall build :)

2002-05-11 16:10  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.29), developers-reference.sgml (1.105),
        debian/changelog (1.95): entity'ize master.debian.org,
        us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
        
        tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
        directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
        work-around with &lt;...&gt;
        
        fix some awkward working from recent updates

2002-05-10 16:27  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.104): * Sec "Writing useful
        descriptions": added a blurb about spell-checking.

2002-05-09 18:24  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.103), debian/changelog (1.94): - 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.

2002-05-09 13:43  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.28), developers-reference.sgml (1.102),
        debian/changelog (1.93): - Various 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   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   any pains 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   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".

2002-05-09 05:45  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.27), developers-reference.sgml (1.101),
        debian/changelog (1.92): - Sec "The Incoming system" in
        "Resources", describe how it works and   also speak of the DELAYED
        directory. closes: #135562, #136774

2002-05-08 18:27  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.26), developers-reference.sgml (1.100),
        debian/changelog (1.91): - 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"   Document the
        package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553 - New Section
        "Package's information" under Resources   Document
        http://packages.debian.org/<package>,  
        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

2002-05-08 16:07  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.90): standardizing some of Raphael's entries

2002-05-08 11:34  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.25), developers-reference.sgml (1.99),
        debian/changelog (1.89): - Indicated 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

2002-05-08 06:29  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.98), debian/changelog (1.88): -
        Added best packaging practices chapter.  - Added "Writing useful
        descriptions" as a first entry in that   chapter. Closes: #53109,
        #129848

2002-05-07 18:39  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.97): - Little typo: s/you/your/.

2002-05-06 23:37  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.96), debian/changelog (1.87): trim
        the bad submit-bugs chapter; s/GPG/GnuPG/

2002-05-06 23:09  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.95), debian/changelog (1.86): spell
        check and some awkward grammar

2002-05-06 22:52  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.85): cosmetics and Antoine's updates

2002-05-06 19:25  Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.94), debian/changelog (1.84): -
        Changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line.  - Remove
        all references explaining that the upstream orig tarball can be  
        changed during lifetime.  - Deleted "binary NMU" when we really
        mean "porter upload" or "simple   recompile".  - Elaborated more
        about "binary-only NMU".  - Detail more things about the removal of
        package.  - Fix other issues from #102626.

2002-05-06 10:59  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.31): Finally in sync with 1.91
        (aph updated the original before me).

2002-05-06 10:54  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.93): Small changes.

2002-05-06 10:38  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.83): new stubbed section I missed

2002-05-06 10:32  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.82): recent changes

2002-05-06 10:31  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.30): Synchronized with 1.92.

2002-05-06 10:29  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.24), developers-reference.sgml (1.92):     - new
        Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
              the former chapters
               Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
               Ch "The Debian Archive"
        
            - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former
        chapters
               Ch "Package uploads"
               Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
               Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
               Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
        Packages"
               Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
               Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
        
            - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
              to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
              Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
                  Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
              Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
              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

2002-05-06 10:28  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.18): depend for developers-reference.html/*

2002-05-05 16:44  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.91), debian/changelog (1.81):     -
        new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" for recommended ways to contribute
              to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; Ch
        "Interaction with
              Prospective Developers" moved into this chapter and renamed
        to Sec
              "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
            - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
            - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039

2002-05-05 14:12  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.90): chapter titles need caps

2002-05-05 14:10  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.80): recent changes

2002-05-05 14:10  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/control (1.14): add hertzog as co-maintainer

2002-05-05 14:10  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.89):     - Sec "Getting started":
        link to New Maintainers' Guide
            - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and
        Sponsors",
              we add some info on sponsoring

2002-05-05 14:09  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.23): newmaint guide and sponsor coordination page

2002-05-03 13:21  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: changelog (1.79), control (1.13): makefile change; manoj
        is a co-maintainer

2002-05-03 13:20  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.17): simplifications to the tex prefix rules; they
        are completely irrelevant now though since debiandoc-sgml does it
        right

2002-04-13 18:46  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.29): Small corrections.

2002-04-13 18:18  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.28): Synchronized with 1.88.

2002-04-13 18:14  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.88): Miscellaneous corrections

2002-04-08 02:57  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.6): update for next release

2002-04-08 02:57  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/TODO (1.4): yet more todo

2002-04-08 02:53  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/TODO (1.3): more todo

2002-04-08 02:35  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.87), debian/changelog (1.78):      
        - dpkg-dev-el: new section
            - Ch "Package uploads":
              - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
              - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
            - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
              - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
              - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
              - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"

2002-04-08 01:44  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.86), debian/changelog (1.77): Sec
        "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780

2002-04-08 01:33  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.85): FIXME for more programs to
        document

2002-04-08 01:23  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.84), debian/changelog (1.76):     -
        Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
              - improve the intro
              - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
              - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get
        info on the dh-* pkgs
              - dput: new section, closes: #129378
              - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
              - other minor wording changes

2002-04-07 03:02  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.75): recent changes

2002-04-01 10:50  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.83): Charles Briscoe-Smith
        deprecates yada

2002-03-31 17:09  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.74): changes for next version, not yet ready
        for release though

2002-03-31 17:08  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.82): from Martin Michlmayr: changes
        in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming anymore,
        talk about dput a bit; closes: #135559

2002-03-15 13:14  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.27): Increment the cvs-en-rev
        entity

2002-03-15 12:45  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * common.ent (1.22), developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.26),
        developers-reference.sgml (1.81): Miscellaneous corrections

2002-03-11 17:03  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.25): Synchronized with version
        1.80

2002-02-24 15:03  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.5): update for next release

2002-02-24 14:57  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.73): prepare 2.10.0

2002-02-24 14:51  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/copyright (1.4): fix a typo

2002-02-24 14:51  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.24), developers-reference.ja.sgml
        (1.9): use new language-independant entities

2002-02-24 14:49  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.21), developers-reference.sgml (1.80): isolate a
        few more language-independent bits; change /usr/doc to
        /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright, closes: #126924

2002-02-24 14:32  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.20), developers-reference.sgml (1.79): some
        suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
        closes: #133953; use a new entity, debian-formal for the term

2002-02-24 14:15  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.16): distclean, and clean is cleaner

2002-02-24 14:13  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.19), developers-reference.sgml (1.78): purge
        references to 'frozen' distribution, which doesn't exist anymore

2002-02-24 12:48  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.77): bugs closed in NMUs should uses
        'closes' changelog entries, closes: #133951

2002-02-24 12:40  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.18), developers-reference.sgml (1.76): update the
        "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with review by
        Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965

2002-02-24 11:56  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.75): some minor cosmetics

2002-02-23 10:22  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.74): Added ';' at the end of an
        entity.

2002-02-20 17:53  Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.73): added a section on how to deal
        with unreachable (maybe-MIA) maintainers

2001-12-27 01:48  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.23): Synchronised with 1.72 (no
        real change needed, updated french version number)

2001-12-26 08:00  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.72): wrong tense, noticed by Chris
        Tillman

2001-12-19 05:55  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.22): Modified translation of
        'General Public license'

2001-12-17 18:41  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.21): Last modifications reviewed
        by P. Batailler

2001-12-12 08:46  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.20): Miscellaneous changes to
        enhance overall coherence of the french translations

2001-12-12 02:18  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.19): Synchronised with 1.71

2001-12-09 07:55  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.71): mention how the vacation
        notices should include [VAC] in the subject; change the full stop
        into an exclamation sign in the sentence about removing the
        on-vacation flag, many people forget this (i myself had the flag
        turned on for weeks after return at one time :)

2001-11-05 23:22  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.18): Removed some mistakes.

2001-10-27 01:56  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.17): Synchronised with 1.70.

2001-10-21 01:24  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.15): clean is cleaner

2001-10-21 01:06  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.72): perpare next version as 2.9.0

2001-10-21 00:57  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.4): update for next release

2001-10-18 15:37  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.70): further cleanups in the section
        about picking the distribution

2001-10-17 20:38  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.69): reordered some subsections in
        the section about package uploads, it wasn't organized

2001-10-17 20:21  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.68): combining stable with unstable
        is deprecated in another section, this paragraph needs to be
        removed

2001-10-17 20:17  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.67): updated the section about
        experimental (better late than never)

2001-10-17 20:02  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.66): created a new subsection about
        uploading to stable, and elaborated about that subject; removed a
        stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about security
        uploads (which apply to all distributions equally), and replaced
        the nonexistent term Security Manager with security officer which I
        saw used

2001-10-03 00:37  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.16): Replaced "sévérité" by
        "gravité" which is a better translation of "severity".  Since
        "gravité" is also used on the debian website, this replacement also
        helps coherence throughout the french documentation.

2001-10-02 03:21  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.71): shipping 2.8.9

2001-10-02 03:21  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.3): update for next release

2001-09-26 19:35  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.15): Updates reviewed by P.
        Batailler.

2001-09-08 18:44  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.14): In sync with version 1.65...
        without bug.

2001-09-08 17:57  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.13): In sync with version 1.65 of
        developers-reference.sgml.

2001-08-24 12:08  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.65), debian/changelog (1.70): typo
        fix thanks to Mark Hodge

2001-08-24 12:03  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.69): recent changes

2001-08-24 11:52  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.64): integrate many changes from
        James Troup, part of #102626

2001-08-24 11:48  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.17): break out &number-of-arches as a variable, god
        that changes a lot !

2001-08-22 00:42  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.12): Removed a brown-paper-bag
        mistake.

2001-08-19 23:05  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.68): prepare version 2.8.9

2001-08-18 20:37  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.11): Synchronized with cvs
        version 1.63 of developers-reference.sgml

2001-07-30 08:15  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.63): replaced some bogus <ftppath>s
        with <tt>s; noted how there's an upload queue on pandora, too

2001-07-20 17:56  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.2): update

2001-07-20 17:56  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.67): prepare 2.8.8

2001-07-20 17:55  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.62): upcase chapter titles

2001-07-17 08:06  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.61): a few more strong words about
        sponsoring

2001-07-16 18:20  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.60), common.ent (1.16): started a
        new chapter about the relationship between old and new developers

2001-07-15 11:43  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/TODO (1.2): this TODO item is fixed, the reference now
        explains how people.d.o works

2001-07-15 11:07  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.59): explained how to CC:
        debian-devel and how it's not completely obligatory

2001-06-21 14:43  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.14), debian/changelog (1.66), debian/control (1.12):
        update for and require debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better

2001-06-21 14:35  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.10), developers-reference.ja.sgml
        (1.8), developers-reference.sgml (1.58), debian/changelog (1.65),
        debian/rules (1.32): provide proper l10n for SGML date entities;
        now we have &date-<LANG> entities which should be used

2001-06-21 13:20  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.57), debian/changelog (1.64): Matt
        Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
        forwarding bugs upstream
        
        closes: #98312

2001-06-21 13:02  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.56), debian/changelog (1.63):
        dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when
        NMU'ing; update documentation accordingly
        
        closes: #101676

2001-05-15 10:59  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.55), debian/changelog (1.62): fix a
        small typo in a link

2001-05-12 20:27  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.9): Reviewed by P. Bataille. Some
        more changes.

2001-05-04 20:02  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.8): Reviewed by P. Batailler

2001-04-23 13:02  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.15): sample-dist-dirtree had some english in it,
        bad bad

2001-04-16 19:44  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.7): cvs-en-rev entity updated

2001-04-16 19:16  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.6): Some changes from P.
        Batailler, N. Bertolissio and me.

2001-04-15 17:41  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.14): updated the general numbers

2001-04-13 03:32  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * ChangeLog (1.1): update for next release

2001-04-13 03:32  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.61): prepare 2.8.6

2001-04-13 03:31  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.31): utilze new changelog file

2001-04-13 03:30  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.54): utilize orphan-address and
        cosmetics

2001-04-13 03:30  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.5), developers-reference.ja.sgml
        (1.7): utilize orphan-address

2001-04-13 03:29  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.13): add orphan-address as the email address for
        orphaning pkgs

2001-04-13 03:29  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * .cvsignore (1.5): ignore validate stuff

2001-04-13 03:18  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.13): add a 'validate' rule

2001-04-13 03:17  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.53): fix a typo, thanks to Antoine
        Hulin

2001-04-12 16:59  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.12): add a 'prepare' target to update ChangeLog

2001-04-11 18:51  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.4): Integrate the second review
        of N. Bertolissio. This version is in sync with
        developers-reference.sgml RCS version 1.52.

2001-04-08 01:41  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.3), developers-reference.ja.sgml
        (1.6): more purging of url-pkg-manual references

2001-04-08 01:41  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * .cvsignore (1.4): update ignorables

2001-04-08 01:28  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.60): re-prepare 2.8.5, including some French
        updates; hopefully it is valid SGML

2001-04-08 01:27  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.ja.sgml (1.5): expunge some references to
        url-pkg-manual; this version needs updating

2001-04-07 21:28  Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.2): First complete translation of
        the Debian developer's reference guide.  Reviewed by Nicolas
        Bertolissio. I will integrate 2 patches (from N. Bertolissio and P.
        Batailler) ASAP.

2001-04-07 20:24  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: changelog (1.59), control (1.11): fix
        build-depends(-indep) issue, prepare 2.8.5

2001-04-05 10:02  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/TODO (1.1): new file

2001-04-05 10:01  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.12), developers-reference.sgml (1.52),
        debian/changelog (1.58):   * expunge references to the Debian
        Packaging Manual, which is now in the
            Policy
          * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug
        closure
            practices (closes: Bug#88623)
          * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
            (closes: Bug#89694)

2001-03-27 10:41  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.11), developers-reference.sgml (1.51): expunge
        url-pkg-manual

2001-02-25 12:48  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.57): prepare next version

2001-02-25 12:47  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/control (1.10): fill in the description a bit more; remove
        reference to obsolete packaging-manual package (closes: Bug#86505)

2001-02-25 12:46  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.11): clean is cleaner

2001-02-25 12:44  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.9): index.html corrected to be
        index.en.html (closes: Bug#85933)

2001-02-11 08:31  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.10): just a convenience alias, saves typing :)

2001-01-22 02:10  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.56): prepare 2.8.3 for release

2001-01-22 02:09  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.30): remove a useless dir,
        /usr/share/developers-reference; fix install rule for i18n

2001-01-22 02:08  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.9): eliminate japanese PDF which doesn't seem to work
        properly; some hygenics; proper deps for version.ent

2001-01-22 00:14  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.8), debian/rules (1.29): build and clean stuff with
        the top-level makefile, not debian/rules; build support for
        non-English languages, and build those by default as well

2001-01-22 00:12  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.ja.sgml (1.4): disable some references to
        files which no longer exist

2001-01-21 18:10  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.55): sorry, last changelog entry on this file
        was wrong; prepare 2.8.2 version, document Josip's changes, and
        bugs to be closed

2001-01-21 18:09  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.54), developers-reference.sgml (1.50):   *
        clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
          * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)

2001-01-21 17:54  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/control (1.9): add recommends for debian-policy and
        packaging-manual

2001-01-21 17:53  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.49), debian/copyright (1.3): add
        2001 copyright

2000-12-30 11:07  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.48): another update WRT
        sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson

2000-12-28 17:00  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.47): included fixes from bug #80740;
        described testing; described package pools (this particular part
        required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
        it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
        smaller fixes

2000-12-28 14:35  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
        sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)

2000-12-18 19:04  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.46): replaced evil latin1-only «»
        quotation marks, replaced mentions of important severity (in RCB
        context) with serious severity, some details fixed

2000-12-18 18:13  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.45): updated regarding va->klecker
        move, and www->people move, changed most mentions of dinstall to a
        generic term "archive maintenance software", removed full path to
        it because it is in PATH now, mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat
        vaguely), changed week to month regarding FTP archive waiting time
        since that\'s more often the case, and changed weeks to hours
        regarding Maintainers file updates since that\'s also more often
        the case now, updated some URLs to entities,
        s/debian-doc/doc-debian/

2000-12-18 17:26  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.9): upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian
        reports URL

2000-12-06 10:25  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.44): fix for WNPP bug filing
        severities from David Schleef <ds@stm.lbl.gov>

2000-11-04 13:22  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: changelog (1.53), rules (1.28): remove some obsolete
        source-depends stuff

2000-11-04 13:14  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.52): changes for 2.8.1

2000-11-04 13:13  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.43):   * update WNPP instructions,
        based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
            (closes: Bug#69435)
          * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas
        Krueger
            (closes: Bug#72810)

2000-10-15 05:04  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.8), debian/changelog (1.51): update
        doc-base file for FHS

2000-10-15 05:04  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.50): break up this file a bit

2000-10-15 03:25  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.49): update from CVS Changelogs mostly

2000-10-15 03:25  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/copyright (1.2): update for new copyright file location;
        add 2000 copyright dates and mention I am the maintainer [sic]

2000-09-20 11:31  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.42): fixed bug closing example,
        closes: #71198 ;) and updated the perl regexp from current
        /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian file

2000-09-20 11:17  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/: control (1.8), postinst (1.4), prerm (1.4), rules
        (1.27): compliance with Policy 3.2.1

2000-09-20 10:55  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.8), developers-reference.sgml (1.41): updated
        keyring/keyserver stuff; updated lists-archives URL; changed link
        for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts to the db.d.o CGI;
        updated new-maintainer stuff; updated for master->ftp-master move;
        noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other
        machines could be used if necessary; fixed www.d.o BTS URL; reorder
        mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure; mention
        the rsync dupload method; reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us,
        canonical name non-us is better; other small corrections

2000-09-19 19:08  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.7): fixed cvs.d.o web path

2000-09-19 18:59  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.6): fixed wnpp url

2000-09-19 18:45  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.40): fixed orphaning/adopting
        instructions with regard to the new WNPP

2000-09-19 15:35  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.7): set build as the default rule, made clean a phony
        rule

2000-07-30 15:44  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.5): fixed link to Debian machines page

2000-07-29 08:11  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.39): fixed broken link

2000-07-29 07:30  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.6): no need to fork a shell, $(notdir) does the job

2000-04-16 23:36  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: changelog (1.48), rules (1.26): don't compress PDF

2000-04-16 22:42  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.47): first cut 2.7.2

2000-04-16 22:34  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * constitution.en.html (1.3), debian-constitution.desc (1.3),
        debian/postinst (1.3), debian/prerm (1.3), debian/rules (1.25):
        purge the constitution

2000-04-16 22:32  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.24): install common.ent and housekeeping

2000-04-16 22:24  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.4), constitution.en.html (1.2),
        developers-reference.sgml (1.38): changes from Raphael Hertzog
        <hertzog@debian.org>, 25 Mar 2000

2000-03-06 20:17  Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.23): Changed debiandoc2latex2epdf to
        debiandoc2latexpdf, otherwise it doesn't build with debiandoc-sgml
        1.1.40.

2000-01-07 11:45  Yoshizumi Endo <y-endo@ceres.dti.ne.jp>

        * developers-reference.ja.sgml (1.3): Improved translation (thanks
        Seiji Kaneko).

1999-10-28 13:38  Yoshizumi Endo <y-endo@ceres.dti.ne.jp>

        * developers-reference.ja.sgml (1.2): Improved translation (thanks
        Seiji Kaneko and Hiroshi KISE).

1999-10-04 13:49  Yoshizumi Endo <y-endo@ceres.dti.ne.jp>

        * developers-reference.ja.sgml (1.1): Initial translation.

1999-09-12 18:17  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.46): it helps to sign the changelog

1999-09-12 18:12  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.37), debian/changelog (1.45): add
        stuff for dinstall bug closing; note alternate names for DSA

1999-09-11 21:55  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.22): fix a bug in how we deal with debian/control

1999-09-11 21:33  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: changelog (1.44), control (1.7), rules (1.21):
        dynamically generate the TOC in the package description from
        developers-reference.sgml

1999-09-11 18:55  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.3), developers-reference.sgml (1.36),
        debian/changelog (1.43): pgp to rsa changes, 2.7.1 first cut

1999-08-16 23:59  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.2), developers-reference.sgml (1.35),
        debian/changelog (1.42), debian/control (1.6), debian/rules (1.20):
        2.7.0 update, see the changelog

1999-08-15 19:43  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.41): document bug 37392 closing

1999-08-15 19:26  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.40): first cut of next version

1999-08-15 19:24  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.34): start effort to split out
        common entities

1999-08-15 19:22  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * common.ent (1.1): file added

1999-08-11 13:22  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian-constitution.desc (1.2): fix section, closing bug 37392

1999-07-27 15:38  Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.1): add old french translations

1999-05-21 21:47  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.39): 2.6.8, first cut

1999-05-21 21:45  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.33): correction about login name on
        master -- eight chars or less, not seven (and remove the footnote
        asking why seven)

1999-05-21 01:39  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.38): version 2.6.7

1999-05-21 01:39  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.32): Ch. "Overview of Debian
        Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,     someone who uses
        this should check my description), correct build ->     debuild in
        the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)

1999-05-21 01:36  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.7): capitalize section name (closes
        Bug#37392)

1999-05-09 18:11  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.31): normalize SGML elements which
        were <foo/.../ to <foo>...</foo>; re-fill paragraphs -- NO CONTENT
        CHANGES

1999-05-09 01:10  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.37): 2nd cut

1999-05-09 01:08  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.19): re-enable letter-sized PDFs

1999-05-09 00:44  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.36): first cut 2.6.6

1999-05-09 00:34  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.30):   * Sec. "The master server":
        note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
            to ftpmaster@debian.org also
          * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
            'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
          * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that
        binary-arch
            and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks
        Roman
            Hodek)
          * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild,
        reorganize the
            section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is
        the all
            Roman release)

1999-05-04 03:32  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.29), debian/changelog (1.35),
        debian/rules (1.18):   * Sec. "Architectures": correction on
        supported architecture in Linux
            2.2, from Job Bogan
          * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the
        experiment
            archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
          * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes
        Bug#36485)
          * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes
        Bug#36891)
          * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed
        chapter; add
            intro paragraph
          * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard
        servers,
            with intro; demoted server sections under that
          * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
          * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on
        how to
            report problems
          * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be
        included
            when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
          * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines
        for which
            a normal developer may have access.

1999-04-09 21:20  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * .cvsignore (1.3): ignorable

1999-04-09 21:18  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: changelog (1.34), rules (1.17): hack 'byhand' file
        entries to include debian version number in it, so subsequent
        uploads of the package into Incoming don't step all over each other

1999-04-04 13:35  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.28), debian/changelog (1.33): 2.6.3:
        correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the
        correct address for PGP key updates

1999-04-04 04:42  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.27), debian/changelog (1.32): Sec.
        "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all; use
        public declaration

1999-04-03 17:15  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.31): 2nd cut

1999-04-03 17:13  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/control (1.5): match priority in override files on archive

1999-04-03 17:12  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.6): fix typo

1999-04-03 16:15  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.30): first cut 2.6.1

1999-04-03 16:15  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.16): making PDF now, not PS; deal with new
        debiandoc-sgml output naming

1999-04-03 16:14  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: postinst (1.2), prerm (1.2): deal with
        debian-constitution docreg files

1999-04-03 16:11  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.26):   * Sec. "Maintaining Your
        Public Key" -- give email addresses as
            {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to
        Jameas,
            if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
            <keyring-maint> instead)
          * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"

1999-04-03 16:08  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.5): cope with new file name
        extensions and PDF file

1999-04-03 16:01  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian-constitution.desc (1.1): new file

1999-04-03 14:43  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * constitution.en.html (1.1.1.1): import from webml
        (www.debian.org)

1999-04-03 14:43  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * constitution.en.html (1.1): Initial revision

1999-03-03 15:22  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.29): 2.6.0.1 pre version (will be changed to
        2.6.1 when I release officially)

1999-03-03 15:21  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.15): housekeeping

1999-03-03 15:20  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.25): <chapt id="scope">Scope of This
        Document -- typo correction
        
        <sect id="fakeroot"> -- it's libtricks, not libtool

1999-03-03 15:06  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.4): add abstract

1999-02-11 03:10  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.28): plea for frozen too

1999-02-11 03:06  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.27): ver 2.6.0

1999-02-11 03:06  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.14): remove menu file

1999-02-11 03:05  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.24):   * Ch. "Porting and Being
        Ported": porter information broken out into it's
            own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to
        do a
            source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter
        tool
            descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section.  Sec.
        "Being
            Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making
        problems for
            porters.
          * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new
        chapter, and
            tighten up the language a bit
          * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index
        maint'
            of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny
        bit
            w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes
        Bug#30394)
          * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
            official policy
          * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports",
        incorporate
            some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your
        root
            account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break
        out new
            sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
          * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution
        for
            package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for
        fakeroot
            and devscripts
          * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite
        small
            right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key
        modification,
            warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and
        talks
            about how to depart Debian gracefully
          * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
          * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
          * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities,
        update
            number of available packages
          * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
          * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate

1999-02-11 03:04  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.3): fix maintainer name

1999-02-11 00:02  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/menu (1.2): obsoleted by doc-base file

1999-01-19 04:08  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.23), debian/changelog (1.26): fix
        for Bug#32052

1998-12-29 02:46  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: changelog (1.25), rules (1.13): added version.ent to
        docdir for Bug#31034

1998-12-18 00:10  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.22): s/ppc/powerpc/, other
        spellfixes

1998-12-18 00:09  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.24): early cut 2.5.0.3

1998-11-25 05:40  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.23): [no log message]

1998-11-25 05:39  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.21):   * Sec. "Removing a package
        from Incoming": tiny section added
          * some PGP-centricity removed
          * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is
        not ok
          * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change NMU to
            source NMU, port to binary NMU, shorten the window for porters
        a
            tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
            non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for
        fixing
            by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested
        parties

1998-11-21 13:13  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.20), debian/changelog (1.22): finish
        1st draft filling in NMU/porter chapter

1998-11-19 17:49  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.19): more work on the NMU/porters
        chapter

1998-11-19 17:31  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: changelog (1.21), rules (1.12): use changelog date for
        SGML timestamping, not current date

1998-11-16 00:46  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: changelog (1.20), dirs (1.2): remove obsolete 'dirs'
        file

1998-11-16 00:41  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/control (1.4): name change

1998-11-16 00:40  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.19): [no log message]

1998-11-16 00:39  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.18): name change
        
        fix SGML nit

1998-11-16 00:10  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.18): [no log message]

1998-11-15 20:17  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.17): Sec. "Maintainer changes":
        renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved to Chapter "Moving,
        Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages".
        
        Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters":  new chapter
        discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated
        out of existance
        
        of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections

1998-11-15 04:23  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.5): fix semantics to match PUBLISHDIR

1998-11-12 00:48  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.17): tweaking for release

1998-11-12 00:47  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.16): fix copyright byline
        
        remove URL to fragment identifier

1998-11-11 22:56  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.16): final release version

1998-11-09 05:11  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.15), debian/changelog (1.15):
        "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
        'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'

1998-11-09 03:09  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/control (1.3): bump stds version

1998-11-09 03:07  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.14): pre-release for 2.5.0

1998-11-09 03:06  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.14): many many changes, see the
        changelog, I'm too tired...

1998-11-07 21:12  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.13): correct new maintainer
        instructions pretty heavily (see changelog)
        
        red-pen corrections

1998-11-07 21:08  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.11): debiandoc2ps done in build, not binary-indep

1998-11-07 21:07  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.13): correct some new-maintainer directions
        
        red-pen corrections

1998-11-07 21:06  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * .cvsignore (1.2): [no log message]

1998-11-07 16:58  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.10): why bother checking for root, don't be a
        fascist

1998-11-05 02:34  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.12): fill in servers section

1998-11-05 02:24  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.12): first cut

1998-11-01 17:40  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.11): s/m86k/m68k/

1998-11-01 17:27  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.10): use new <package> tag where
        appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
        
        advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
        severity 'E'
        
        rename 'Whirlwind Tour' section to 'Overview of...'

1998-10-19 00:41  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.9): cosmetic changes

1998-10-01 03:45  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.11): note the new chapter on maintainer tools

1998-10-01 03:44  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.9): spell check

1998-10-01 03:28  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.4): rename html rule to build rule, since it doesn't
        just make html

1998-10-01 03:25  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.8), debian/changelog (1.10):
        incorporated suggestions from or inspired by Branden Robinson

1998-09-28 06:19  olly

        * Makefile (1.3): Correction to makefile target

1998-09-28 01:46  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.2): make ddp publish rule really publish

1998-09-28 00:59  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.9): minor changes

1998-09-28 00:58  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.8): remove source-depends rule, not needed....

1998-09-28 00:57  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * Makefile (1.1): initial

1998-09-27 22:39  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.8): First cut for 2.4.1.5 version

1998-09-27 22:39  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.7): Fix instructions for new
        maintainers, incorporating the actual text sent to prospective new
        maintainers.  Improve this text a bit for readability, coverage,
        and organization.  Significant changes were patched back to the
        new-maintainers group, if they care to use them. (closes Bug#26948)
        
        Add an introductory "Scope" section which helps delineate what
        should and should not be included in this Reference.
        
        Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an
        email from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
        
        Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
        
        Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
        
        Little corrections here and there.

1998-09-21 04:16  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.6), debian/changelog (1.7): complete
        stuff for this round of textual overhauls, notably adding section
        on removing, renaming, orphaning packages

1998-09-20 19:43  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.7): fix source-depends
        
        fix dependancy for build

1998-09-20 19:42  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.5): first cut for 2.4.1.4, which is
        a lot of changes.  Still need to fix terminology for "section" and
        "distribution" and the like

1998-09-20 19:41  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * .cvsignore (1.1): ignorables

1998-07-28 01:02  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/: rules (1.6), changelog (1.6): added source depends
        hackery

1998-07-16 00:55  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.5): lotsa bugfixing

1998-07-16 00:54  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.5): [no log message]

1998-07-15 23:57  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/rules (1.4): radical aph'ification of rules

1998-07-15 23:50  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/changelog (1.4): bump

1998-07-14 22:49  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * debian/control (1.2): update mainter name

1998-07-14 22:46  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.4): plaster my name all over it
        
        format the SGML like I like it

1998-07-14 22:45  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.2): switch section

1998-07-14 17:31  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.3), debian/changelog (1.3),
        debian/rules (1.3): dynamic version numbering and date

1998-07-14 16:31  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.sgml (1.2), debian/changelog (1.2),
        debian/rules (1.2): non-maintainer release 2.4.1.2

1998-07-14 15:27  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.1.1.1), developers-reference.sgml
        (1.1.1.1), debian/changelog (1.1.1.1), debian/control (1.1.1.1),
        debian/copyright (1.1.1.1), debian/dirs (1.1.1.1), debian/menu
        (1.1.1.1), debian/postinst (1.1.1.1), debian/prerm (1.1.1.1),
        debian/rules (1.1.1.1): \Initial Import\\

1998-07-14 15:27  Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>

        * developers-reference.desc (1.1), developers-reference.sgml (1.1),
        debian/changelog (1.1), debian/control (1.1), debian/copyright
        (1.1), debian/dirs (1.1), debian/menu (1.1), debian/postinst (1.1),
        debian/prerm (1.1), debian/rules (1.1): Initial revision