1 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
4 - French translation update to latest version
5 - Proofread by Philippe Batailler
7 - Added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation.
9 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448.
10 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
13 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
15 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
16 - note that the TOC in the developers-reference-{fr,ja} package
17 descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are allowed;
18 use substvars now to set that TOC --- TODO TODO TODO
20 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 26 Jan 2003 04:09:50 -0500
22 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
25 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
27 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
28 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
29 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
30 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
32 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
33 for best practices for documentation
34 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
35 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
36 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
37 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
41 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
43 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
46 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
47 descriptions" moved under there
48 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
49 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
50 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
51 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
52 the document where these tools are discussed
53 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
54 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
55 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
56 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
57 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
58 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
60 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
61 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
62 that can be fixed by DDP folks
63 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
64 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
65 - simply PS and PDF building rules
67 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
69 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
72 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
73 section and adjusted links
74 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
76 - ChangeLog attribution updates
77 - fix typos, closes: #171781
78 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
79 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
80 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
81 for debian/rules", and write an intro
82 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
83 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
84 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
85 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
86 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
87 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
88 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
89 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
90 "Internationalization"
91 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
92 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
93 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
94 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
95 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
96 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
97 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
98 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
99 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
101 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
102 rather useless and broken
103 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
104 names and the first word
105 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
106 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
107 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
109 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
110 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
111 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
113 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
115 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
118 - DDP publishing update
120 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
121 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
122 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
123 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
125 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
127 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
130 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
131 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
132 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
134 - added myself as co-author
135 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
137 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
138 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
140 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
141 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
143 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
145 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
148 - Corrected several errors with —
149 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
150 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
151 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
152 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
153 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
154 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
155 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
157 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
158 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
159 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
160 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
161 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
162 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
163 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
164 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
165 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
167 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
168 descriptions". closes: #158609
169 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
170 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
171 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
172 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
173 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
175 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
176 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
177 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
178 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
179 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
180 - updated the mailing lists section
182 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
183 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
186 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
188 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
191 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
192 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
194 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
196 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
197 Ch "The Debian Archive"
199 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
201 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
202 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
203 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
204 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
205 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
207 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
208 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
209 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
210 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
211 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
212 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
213 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
215 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
216 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
219 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
220 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
221 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
222 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
223 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
224 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
225 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
226 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
227 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
228 work-around with <...>
229 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
230 - update copyright date
231 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
232 - spell check and grammar corrections
236 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
238 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
239 recompile"; closes: #102626
240 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
241 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
242 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
243 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
244 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
246 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
247 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
248 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
250 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
252 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
253 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
254 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
255 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
256 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
257 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
258 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
259 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
260 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
262 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
264 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
266 - updated the list of available architectures.
267 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
268 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
269 of the package and nothing more.
270 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
271 any pain to the ftpmasters.
272 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
273 the use of the delayed queue.
274 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
275 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
277 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
278 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
279 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
280 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
281 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
282 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
283 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
285 - new Sec "Documentation"
286 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
287 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
288 "Being kind to porter" too
289 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
290 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
291 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
292 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
293 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
295 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
296 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
299 - update French translation
301 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
303 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
306 - some grammar corrections
307 - update French translation
309 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
310 anymore; closes: #135559
311 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
313 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
315 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
316 that would be welcome)
317 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
318 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
319 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
320 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
321 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
322 - other minor wording changes
323 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
324 - Ch "Package uploads":
325 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
326 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
327 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
328 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
329 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
330 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
331 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
333 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
335 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
337 * from Martin Michlmayr
338 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
339 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
340 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
342 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
344 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
346 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
348 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
349 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
350 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
353 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
355 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
358 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
360 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
363 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
365 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
366 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
367 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
368 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
369 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
370 talking about uploading to distributions
371 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
372 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
373 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
375 - French translation updated
377 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
378 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
379 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
381 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
383 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
386 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
387 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
390 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
392 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
395 * fix a typo in a link
396 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
397 update documentation accordingly
399 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
400 forwarding bugs upstream
402 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
403 entities which should be used
404 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
405 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
407 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
409 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
411 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
412 * French version: completely up-to-date now
413 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
414 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
416 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
419 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
421 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
423 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
425 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
426 this translation needs updating
427 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
428 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
429 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
431 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
432 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
433 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
435 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
436 included yet, however
438 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
440 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
442 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
444 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
445 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
447 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
449 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
451 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
453 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
454 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
455 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
457 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
459 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
461 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
464 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
465 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
466 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
467 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
468 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
469 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
470 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
471 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
472 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
473 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
474 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
475 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
477 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
478 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
479 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
480 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
481 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
483 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
485 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
486 * update copyright notice for 2001
487 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
488 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
489 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
491 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
493 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
495 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
497 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
499 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
501 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
503 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
506 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
508 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
509 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
510 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
511 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
512 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
513 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
514 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
515 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
516 could be used if necessary
517 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
518 mention the rsync dupload method
519 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
521 * other small corrections
522 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
523 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
524 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
525 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
527 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
529 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
530 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
532 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
534 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
536 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
537 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
538 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
539 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
541 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
542 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
543 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
544 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
545 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
547 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
549 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
550 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
551 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
552 team (closes: Bug#52906)
553 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
554 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
555 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
557 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
558 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
559 - added a section about the LDAP database
560 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
561 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
563 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
564 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
566 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
568 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
571 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
572 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
574 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
575 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
576 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
577 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
578 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
579 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
580 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
581 description from developers-reference.sgml
583 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
585 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
587 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
588 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
590 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
592 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
593 releases are available at archive.debian.org
594 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
595 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
596 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
597 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
598 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
599 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
600 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
601 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
603 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
604 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
605 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
606 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
608 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
609 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
610 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
611 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
612 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
613 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
614 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
615 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
616 suggestion from James Troup
617 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
618 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
619 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
620 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
623 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
625 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
627 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
628 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
630 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
632 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
634 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
635 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
636 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
637 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
638 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
639 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
640 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
642 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
644 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
647 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
648 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
649 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
650 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
651 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
653 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
654 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
656 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
658 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
660 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
664 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
665 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
666 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
667 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
668 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
670 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
671 with intro; demoted server sections under that
672 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
673 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
675 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
676 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
677 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
678 a normal developer may have access.
680 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
682 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
684 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
685 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
686 step all over each other
688 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
690 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
692 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
693 address for PGP key updates
695 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
697 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
700 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
701 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
702 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
703 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
705 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
707 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
709 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
710 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
711 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
712 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
713 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
714 <keyring-maint> instead)
715 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
716 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
718 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
720 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
721 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
722 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
724 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
726 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
728 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
729 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
730 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
731 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
732 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
733 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
735 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
736 tighten up the language a bit
737 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
738 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
739 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
740 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
742 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
743 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
744 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
745 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
746 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
747 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
749 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
750 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
751 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
752 about how to depart Debian gracefully
753 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
754 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
755 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
756 number of available packages
757 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
758 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
760 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
762 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
764 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
767 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
769 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
771 * not officially released
772 * more spelling corrections
773 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
775 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
777 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
779 * not officially released
780 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
781 * some PGP-centricity removed
782 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
783 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
784 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
785 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
786 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
787 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
789 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
791 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
793 * not officially released
794 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
795 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
796 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
797 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
798 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
799 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
800 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
801 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
802 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
803 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
804 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
805 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
806 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
807 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
809 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
810 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
812 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
814 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
815 take a couple of weeks
816 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
817 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
818 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
819 excited about it and can't wait
820 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
821 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
823 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
824 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
826 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
827 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
828 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
830 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
832 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
834 * move to 3-level version number:
835 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
836 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
837 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
838 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
839 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
842 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
843 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
844 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
846 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
848 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
849 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
850 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
851 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
852 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
853 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
855 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
857 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
858 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
859 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
860 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
861 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
862 - "The CVS server": new section added
863 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
865 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
866 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
867 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
868 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
869 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
871 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
872 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
873 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
874 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
875 a canonical location?)
876 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
877 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
878 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
879 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
881 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
883 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
884 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
885 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
886 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
888 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
890 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
893 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
894 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
895 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
896 them. (closes Bug#26948)
897 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
898 and should not be included in this Reference.
899 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
900 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
901 maintainer tools only!
902 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
903 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
904 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
905 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
906 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
907 * Little corrections here and there.
908 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
909 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
912 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
914 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
916 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
917 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
918 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
920 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
921 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
922 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
923 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
924 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
925 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
926 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
927 do prior to uploading
928 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
929 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
931 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
932 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
933 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
934 duties with respect to bugs
935 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
936 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
937 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
939 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
940 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
941 * grammar and markup changes throughout
942 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
943 explicit what is used to build this package
945 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
947 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
950 * version number and date are automatically populated now
951 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
952 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
953 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
954 * utilize the new URL tag
955 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
958 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
960 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
962 * non-maintainer release
963 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
964 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
965 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
966 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
967 text, it can't hurt you.)
968 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
969 reflect this packages version number
970 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
972 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
974 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
978 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
980 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
982 * New version numbering scheme:
984 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
985 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
986 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
989 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
990 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
991 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
992 differ between the manuals.
994 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
995 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
996 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
997 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
999 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1000 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1002 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1004 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1006 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1010 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1011 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1013 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1014 (as requested by James Troup)
1016 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1018 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1020 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1022 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1026 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1028 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1030 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1031 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1032 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1033 the non-maintainer release
1035 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1036 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1037 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1040 - Lots of typos fixed
1042 * Compressed SGML source code
1044 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1045 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1047 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1049 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1051 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1054 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1055 - Announcing package uploads
1056 * New section about Debian Mentors
1057 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1058 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1059 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1060 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1062 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1064 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1067 of our FTP server and the development process
1068 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1069 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1070 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1072 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1073 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1074 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1075 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1076 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1077 contacting the maintainer
1078 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1079 a new manual released soon)
1080 * Some minor changes
1081 * Include SGML source in package
1082 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1083 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1085 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1087 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1091 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200