1 developers-reference (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
6 * Add recommendations to re-introduce packages. Thanks to Paul Wise for the
8 * Drop paragraph about vanilla debian/rules files which mainly points to a
9 no-longer working link.
12 * Introduce epub support. Closes: #652044
15 * Update versioning advice for uploads to stable/testing. Closes: #685646
16 * Advise to use codename-security instead of stable-security.
19 [ Translation updates ]
20 * French by David Prévot.
21 * Japanese by victory.
22 * German by Chris Leick.
26 - Update Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no change required).
27 - Use canonical URL for Vcs-Svn.
29 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Thu, 16 May 2013 18:35:23 -0400
31 developers-reference (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Clarify that removals from testing are possible. Closes: #678710
37 Thanks to Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com> for the patch.
38 * Reword various parts to be gender-neutral. Closes: #678712
39 Thanks to Per Andersson and Steve Langasek for the patch.
40 * Recommend usage of gender-neutral formulations in README-contrib.
41 * Fix Vcs-Browser URL. Thanks to Charles Plessy who spotted it.
42 * Document the existence of "hints" that release managers can
43 use to tweak the conditions of testing migration. Closes: #679562
44 Thanks to Paul Gevers <paul@climbing.nl> for the patch.
46 [ Translation updates ]
47 * Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
48 * French by David Prévot.
49 * German by Chris Leick.
52 * Fix typo: Freenodes -> Freenode. Closes: #679735
54 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:34:59 -0400
56 developers-reference (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Move away po4a handling in its own directory with a single config file.
60 * Adapt Makefile and README-contrib to the current po4a tree.
61 * Upgrades to stable should be discussed using reportbug. Thanks to Don
62 Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> for the patch.
63 Acked-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> . Closes: #670362
64 * Use UTF-8 locale to prepare the text version. Closes: #658839
65 * Delayed queue goes from 0 to 15-day. Closes: #631353
68 * Make XeTeX backend to use xCJK package only for CJK and add tipa for
69 build dependency. (See #666569). Closes: #666578
71 * Translation updates (complete)
72 - French by David Prévot.
73 - German by Chris Leick.
76 * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.3 (no change required).
77 * Switch to xz compression for source.
78 * Clean up debian/rules by using dh (with compat level 8).
79 * Drop build-dependency on latex-cjk-xcjk since xeCJK.sty is provided
80 by texlive-xetex directly.
82 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:57:23 +0200
84 developers-reference (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Document some best practices for meta-packages. Extend those for
90 transitional packages. Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna
91 <dktrkranz@debian.org> (thanks!). Closes: #569219
92 * Update license pointer to correctly point to GPL-2. Closes: #643929
93 Thanks to Luca Falavigna.
94 * Update URL of Debian Mentors FAQ. Closes: #643930
95 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
96 * Refresh some release-specific information. Closes: #643931
97 Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna.
98 * Refresh some ftpmaster-related information. Closes: #643932
99 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
100 * Update minimal GPG key length to match current requirements.
101 Closes: #643933 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
102 * Update login information for rt.debian.org. Closes: #643934
103 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
104 * Drop section about yada. Its usage is highly discouraged. Closes: #643935
105 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
106 * Update best practice about unfuzzying PO file translations to recommend
107 msguntypot. Thanks to David Prévot for the patch.
108 Acked-by Christian Perrier. Closes: #655153
111 * Add doc-base file for the German translation.
112 * Typo fix, thanks to Andreas Moog. Closes: #655096
113 * Use XeTeX backend, that fix quotes in examples. Closes: #629530
114 * Build the Japanese PDF, thanks to Osamu Aoki and the maint-guide build
117 * Translation updates (all completed)
118 - Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
119 - German by Chris Leick.
120 - French by David Prévot.
122 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:36:12 -0400
124 developers-reference (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Update the NMU rules to take into account the 0-day NMU rule
128 instituted by the release managers. Closes: #625449
131 * Update my email address.
132 * Encourage the use of RT to contact the security team.
133 Patch from Thijs Kinkhorst. Closes: #610782
134 * Document the process of returning after retirement.
135 Patch from Serafeim Zanikolas. Closes: #540249
136 * Add instructions how to mark a non-free package as auto-buildable.
137 Patch from Moritz Muehlenhoff, ACKed by Andreas Barth.
140 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:52:10 +0200
142 developers-reference (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Remove part about -v for package uploads from experimental to unstable,
148 version tracking removed that requirement.
151 * Rework section on "sponsoring packages" and include a basic
152 checklist for the sponsor. Closes: #453313
153 * Update the "Debian Developer's Duties" chapter to be more explicit
154 about duties of package maintainers. Closes: #548867
155 * Update references to merkel (which is decommissionned) where
156 needed. Closes: #619990
157 Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.
158 * Many typos fixed by Chris Leick <c.leick@vollbio.de>. Closes: #623512
161 * Initial German translation.
164 * Activate German package. Closes: #623489
165 * Update French translation.
166 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. No changes needed.
167 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets.
168 * Explicitly refer to GPL-2 file in debian/copyright.
171 * Update Japanese translation.
173 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:56:46 -0400
175 developers-reference (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Document the new derivatives-bugs PTS keyword.
179 * Removed hp.debian.or.jp reference. Closes: 561597
182 * Update description of the PTS "summary" keyword. Thanks to
183 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #469154
184 * Add accent on my first name in debian/control.
185 * Use "3.0 (native)" source format with bzip2 compression.
186 Created debian/source/{format,options} for this.
187 * Update guideline for override change to point to BTS
188 instead of email. Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the
189 patch. Closes: #540231
190 * Include full URL to the README of the upload queue. Thanks to Simon
191 McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #540974
192 * The key protecting #debian-private is now stored on a file
193 on master.debian.org, it's no more required to search into
194 the debian-private archives. Thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
195 for the patch. Closes: #548823
196 * Update information about upload queues. Thanks to Simon McVittie
197 <smcv@debian.org> for the patches:
198 - point to official names {ftp,ssh}.upload.debian.org. Closes: #554054
199 - drop references to non-working queues. Closes: #554077
200 * Mention docbook, POD and reST as convenient formats to write new manual
201 pages. Thanks to Charles Plessy and the debian-mentors list
202 for the idea and the patch. Closes: #557298
203 * Update several sections to take into account the new source formats “3.0
204 (quilt)” and “3.0 (native)”. Closes: #561952
205 * Drop reference to “dbs” in the section about including binary files.
206 * Fix typo “transfered“ → “transferred”. Closes: #555685
207 * Fix typo “programms“ → “programs”. Closes: #560808
208 * Drop section about debmake, it has been removed of Debian since lenny.
209 * Update URL of the security tracker. Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso.
211 * Update URL of Packages-arch-specific. Closes: #553974
212 * Update section about Alioth to mention FusionForge instead of GForge.
213 Drop mention of separate cvs.debian.org it's managed by Alioth too.
215 * Document new "buildd" keyword from the PTS.
216 * Update URL explaining the "Debian Maintainer" status, it's now at
217 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer. Closes: #564414
218 * Update number of source packages. Thanks Karl Goetz. Closes: #567235
219 * Update and simplify list of architectures. Thanks Karl Goetz.
221 * Small typo fixes and clarifications/rewordings suggested by Karl Goetz.
223 * Document the notion of "team upload": it looks like an NMU but it's not
224 really one because the uploader is an implicit co-maintainer since he's
225 part of the maintenance team. Thanks to Charles Plessy for the initial
226 patch. Closes: #573110
227 * Update standards-version to 3.9.1 and add missing ${misc:Depends} in
229 * Fix debian/tocsubstvars to cope with the new way dpkg-dev handles
230 multi-lines substitution variables.
233 * Update outdated mentions, typos and tags. Closes: #578664
234 * French translation updated from the 2006 debiandoc version.
235 * Apply updated patch from Nicolas François. Closes: #257150
236 * dinstall run happens four times a day. Closes: #585161
237 * Activate Japanese package.
238 * Handle addendum if it exists.
240 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:28:03 -0400
242 developers-reference (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Fixed working of the repackaged tarballs section to avoid giving the
245 impression that it's a standard packages must comply with. Closes:
247 * Specify that bugs from removed packages must be closed in foo+rm.
249 * Change the maintainer address to debian-policy@, based on discussion
251 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No changes needed.
252 * Update copyright notices and list of authors.
254 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:56:19 +0200
256 developers-reference (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Applied patch from Justin B Rye that improves the discussion on writing
259 package descriptions. Closes: #516436.
260 * Lenny has been released, update the list of codenames. Closes: #527008.
261 * Applied patch from Paul Wise that adds a paragraph about hostile
262 upstreams. Closes: #523985.
263 * Applied patch from Charles Plessy about providing information to the
264 ftpmasters. Closes: #526410.
265 * In the section about patch systems, mention quilt (wasn not
266 mentionned before) and describe it as the recommended patch system.
267 also mention dpatch and cdbs' patch system. drop dbs. Closes: #525668.
268 * Added a note in the wanna-build section to mention
269 http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt. Closes: #516375.
270 * Clarified NMU versioning to reflect existing practices. Closes: #532945.
271 * s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section
272 about repackaged upstream tarballs.
273 * Mention the Gandi.net hosting discount in section 4.13.
274 Applied patch from Tim Retout. Closes: #538245.
275 * Reduce length of title of L10N section so that it is no longer split.
276 Applied patch from Justin B Rye. Closes: #534688.
277 * Bumped debhelper compat level to 5 (4 was deprecated)
278 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No changes needed.
279 * Added pointer to debian-project@ post about the wanna-build team.
281 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:28:04 +0200
283 developers-reference (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
290 * Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
291 The most important changes are:
292 + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
293 + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
296 + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
297 with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
298 + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
299 distinction. Closes: #464230.
300 + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
301 + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
302 * Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
303 W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
304 * Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
305 Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
307 * Update instructions on the delayed queue.
308 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
310 * Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
311 Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
313 * Improved README.contrib. Mention command to checkout the SVN
314 version. Thanks to Christine Spang for the patch.
316 * Document usertags. Thanks to Chris Lamb for the patch.
318 * Updated documentation on translation updates.
319 Thanks to Christian Perrier for the patch.
321 * Update instructions on handling of security issues.
322 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
323 Closes: #512620, #510783.
325 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:57:54 +0100
327 developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
331 * Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. Closes: #470754.
332 * linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.
333 * Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.
334 * Collaborative Maintenance: the 'global part' of debian/control
335 is the first paragraph, about the source package. Closes: #483231.
336 * debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.
337 * Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package.
339 * README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
341 * build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
344 [ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
345 * Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
346 * In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
347 release codenames in <literal>
348 * Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
349 doesn't exist anymore.
350 * Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
351 thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
352 * Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
353 and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
354 * Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
355 the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
356 fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandings
357 about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
358 * Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
359 distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
360 team before upload. Closes: #459343
361 * Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
362 * Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
363 need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
364 hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
365 on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806
366 * Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
367 pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
369 * Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
370 description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
372 * Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
373 have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
374 debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
375 * Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
376 ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
377 Thomas. Closes: #485837
379 + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
380 + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!
382 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:45:49 +0200
384 developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
388 - bump standards-version to 3.7.3 (no change)
389 - fix debian/copyright
390 - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
391 - add pdf for French version.
392 * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
393 * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
394 Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
395 * Keyring now uses RT. Closes: #428846
396 * Document -dbg-packages within BPs. Thanks, Joey Hess. Closes: #420540
397 * NMUs now also close bugs. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum. Closes: #419507
398 * Fix documentation about gender neutral. Closes: #384178
399 * Fix typo. Closes: #405453
400 * More details on how to write documentation. Thanks, Josh Triplett.
402 * Add XS-Vcs-*. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli. Closes: #391023
403 * Small brushup to debconf description. Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.
405 * Document Team-Maintainence better. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum.
407 * Add link to more removal ressources. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt,
408 Justin Pryzby. Closes: #412757, #356720
409 * Repacking source packages need to be documented in copyright.
410 Thanks, Russ Allbery. Closes: #413320
411 * Better describe version of debian native packages NMUs. Closes: #405818
412 * Source, HTML and text are now encoded in UTF-8. Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
414 * Source is now DocBook XML instead of debiandoc. Closes: #374220
417 * Add a link to enrico's excellent Debian Community Guidelines.
418 * Recommend the use of DSA's request tracker instead of mailing them.
419 * Remove reference to #debian-sf, #debian-bsd which don't exist anymore. Put
420 a reference to #debian-dpkg instead.
421 * Remove all stuff concerning non-US.
422 * Update information concerning Alioth.
423 * Update information concerning the Package Tracking System.
424 * Mention Alioth as the main resource for VCS repositories and deprecate
426 * Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.
427 * Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
429 * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields pointing to the new SVN
432 -- W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:16:40 +0000
434 developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
436 * mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
438 * fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
439 * use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
441 * better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
442 the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
443 * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
445 * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
446 Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
447 * Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
449 * Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
450 Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
451 * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
452 to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
453 * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
454 * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
455 * stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
456 Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
457 Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
458 * add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
459 * add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
460 20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
462 * section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
463 Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
464 * binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
465 Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
466 * Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
467 * Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
468 * Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
469 * pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
470 * clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
471 * more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
475 - French translation updated to version 3.3.8
477 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
479 developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
482 - adjust information about distributions with reality.
483 - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
484 - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
485 - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
486 - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
487 - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
489 - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
491 - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
493 - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
495 - non-us discontinued.
496 - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
498 - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
499 Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
500 - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
501 - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
502 - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
503 - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
504 Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
505 - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
506 - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
507 - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
508 - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
509 - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
510 - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
511 - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
512 - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
513 - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
514 - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
515 - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
517 - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
518 - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
520 - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
523 - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
525 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
527 developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
530 - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
531 - madison is on merkel.
532 - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
533 - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
534 - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
535 - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
536 - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
537 - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
539 - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
540 - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
541 - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
542 - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
543 - sync NM rules with reality.
545 - French translation updated to version 3.3.6
547 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:49 -0700
549 developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
552 - uploads to more than one dist are not possible.
553 - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213
554 - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048
555 - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464
556 - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298
557 - spelling, grammer fixes.
558 Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208
559 - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968
560 - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814
561 - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021
562 - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654
563 - add myself to uploaders.
564 - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156
565 - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845
566 - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402
567 - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961
568 - add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
569 - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
570 - add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
571 - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
572 - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
573 - updated information about testing distribution. Closes: #266649.
574 - rewrote the NMU section, and
575 + made the possible severities of "target bugs" clearer. Closes: #233088.
576 + mention QA uploads. Closes: #202416.
577 + add -B for binNMUs, and local debsign usage. Closes: #208839.
578 + warning about breaking all-packages by binNMU. Closes: #213348.
579 - add information about gpg usage. Closes: #175815.
580 - make key replacement instructions more details. Closes: #275921
581 - typo and language fixes. Thanks, Era Eriksson. Closes: #277576
582 - add hints about debconf templates from Christian Perrier.
584 - Security uploads get urgency=high
585 - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
587 - French translation updated to version 3.3.5
589 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:07:26 +0100
591 developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
594 - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
595 Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
596 - updated the mailing lists section (again)
597 - documented Alioth, somewhat
599 - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
600 - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
602 - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
603 - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
604 - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
605 - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
609 - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
611 - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
612 Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
613 Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
614 bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
617 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:09:48 -0500
619 developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
622 - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
624 - updated documentation concerning the PTS
625 - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
626 - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
628 - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
629 - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
630 section on security bugs; closes: #196516
631 - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
634 - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
636 - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
637 - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
638 - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
639 - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
640 directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
642 - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
643 it clear these are special cases
644 - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
646 - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
648 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
650 developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
653 - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
654 - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
656 - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
658 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
660 developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
663 - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
665 - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
666 - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
667 - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
669 - more improvements to package synopsis and description
670 - the synopsis formula changed to either
671 <package-name> is a <synopsis>
673 <package-name> is <synopsis>
675 <package-name> are <synopsis>
677 - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
678 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
679 - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
680 - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
681 package; closes: #187143
683 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
685 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
688 - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
689 - proofread by Philippe Batailler
691 - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
693 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
694 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
695 - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
696 architecture-independent data bundled with programs
697 - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
698 kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
699 - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
700 right places in the document, closes: #172897
701 - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
705 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
707 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
708 - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
709 - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
710 table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
711 note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
712 package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
713 allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
715 - editorial changes on material added in this version
716 - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
717 - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
718 from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
719 closes: #139957, #108416
720 - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
721 emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
723 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
725 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
728 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
730 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
731 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
732 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
733 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
735 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
736 for best practices for documentation
737 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
738 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
739 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
740 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
742 - spell-checking pass
744 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
746 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
749 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
750 descriptions" moved under there
751 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
752 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
753 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
754 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
755 the document where these tools are discussed
756 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
757 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
758 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
759 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
760 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
761 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
763 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
764 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
765 that can be fixed by DDP folks
766 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
767 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
768 - simply PS and PDF building rules
770 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
772 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
775 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
776 section and adjusted links
777 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
779 - ChangeLog attribution updates
780 - fix typos, closes: #171781
781 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
782 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
783 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
784 for debian/rules", and write an intro
785 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
786 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
787 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
788 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
789 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
790 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
791 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
792 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
793 "Internationalization"
794 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
795 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
796 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
797 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
798 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
799 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
800 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
801 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
802 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
804 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
805 rather useless and broken
806 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
807 names and the first word
808 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
809 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
810 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
812 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
813 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
814 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
816 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
818 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
821 - DDP publishing update
823 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
824 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
825 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
826 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
828 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
830 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
833 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
834 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
835 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
837 - added myself as co-author
838 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
840 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
841 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
843 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
844 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
846 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
848 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
851 - Corrected several errors with —
852 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
853 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
854 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
855 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
856 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
857 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
858 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
860 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
861 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
862 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
863 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
864 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
865 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
866 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
867 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
868 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
870 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
871 descriptions". closes: #158609
872 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
873 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
874 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
875 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
876 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
878 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
879 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
880 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
881 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
882 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
883 - updated the mailing lists section
885 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
886 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
889 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
891 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
894 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
895 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
897 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
899 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
900 Ch "The Debian Archive"
902 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
904 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
905 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
906 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
907 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
908 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
910 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
911 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
912 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
913 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
914 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
915 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
916 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
918 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
919 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
922 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
923 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
924 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
925 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
926 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
927 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
928 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
929 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
930 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
931 work-around with <...>
932 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
933 - update copyright date
934 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
935 - spell check and grammar corrections
939 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
941 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
942 recompile"; closes: #102626
943 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
944 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
945 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
946 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
947 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
949 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
950 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
951 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
953 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
955 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
956 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
957 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
958 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
959 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
960 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
961 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
962 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
963 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
965 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
967 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
969 - updated the list of available architectures.
970 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
971 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
972 of the package and nothing more.
973 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
974 any pain to the ftpmasters.
975 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
976 the use of the delayed queue.
977 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
978 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
980 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
981 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
982 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
983 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
984 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
985 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
986 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
988 - new Sec "Documentation"
989 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
990 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
991 "Being kind to porter" too
992 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
993 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
994 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
995 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
996 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
998 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
999 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
1002 - update French translation
1004 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
1006 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1009 - some grammar corrections
1010 - update French translation
1012 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
1013 anymore; closes: #135559
1014 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
1016 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
1018 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
1019 that would be welcome)
1020 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
1021 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
1022 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
1023 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
1024 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
1025 - other minor wording changes
1026 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
1027 - Ch "Package uploads":
1028 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
1029 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
1030 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
1031 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
1032 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
1033 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
1034 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
1036 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
1038 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * from Martin Michlmayr
1041 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
1042 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
1043 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
1045 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
1047 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
1049 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
1051 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
1052 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
1053 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
1054 - minor build tweaks
1056 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
1057 * from Chris Tillman
1058 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
1061 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
1063 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1066 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
1068 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
1069 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
1070 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
1071 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
1072 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
1073 talking about uploading to distributions
1074 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
1075 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
1076 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
1078 - French translation updated
1080 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
1081 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
1082 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
1084 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
1086 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
1089 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
1090 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
1093 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
1095 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * fix a typo in a link
1099 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
1100 update documentation accordingly
1102 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
1103 forwarding bugs upstream
1105 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
1106 entities which should be used
1107 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
1108 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
1110 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
1112 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
1115 * French version: completely up-to-date now
1116 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
1117 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
1119 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
1122 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
1124 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
1128 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
1129 this translation needs updating
1130 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
1131 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
1132 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
1134 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
1135 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
1136 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
1138 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
1139 included yet, however
1141 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
1143 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
1147 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
1148 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
1150 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
1152 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
1154 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
1157 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
1158 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
1160 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
1162 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
1164 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
1167 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
1168 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
1169 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
1170 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
1171 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
1172 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
1173 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
1174 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
1175 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
1176 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
1177 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
1178 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
1180 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
1181 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
1182 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
1183 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
1184 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
1186 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
1188 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
1189 * update copyright notice for 2001
1190 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
1191 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
1192 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
1194 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
1196 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
1200 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
1202 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
1204 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
1206 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
1209 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
1211 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
1212 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
1213 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
1214 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
1215 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
1216 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
1217 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
1218 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
1219 could be used if necessary
1220 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
1221 mention the rsync dupload method
1222 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
1224 * other small corrections
1225 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
1226 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
1227 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
1228 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
1230 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
1232 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
1233 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
1235 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
1237 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
1239 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
1240 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
1241 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
1242 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
1244 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
1245 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
1246 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
1247 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
1248 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
1250 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1252 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
1253 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
1254 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
1255 team (closes: Bug#52906)
1256 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
1257 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
1258 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
1260 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
1261 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
1262 - added a section about the LDAP database
1263 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
1264 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
1266 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
1267 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
1269 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
1271 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
1274 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
1275 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
1277 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
1278 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
1279 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
1280 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
1281 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
1282 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
1283 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
1284 description from developers-reference.sgml
1286 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
1288 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
1291 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
1293 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
1295 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
1296 releases are available at archive.debian.org
1297 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
1298 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
1299 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
1300 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
1301 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
1302 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
1303 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
1304 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
1306 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
1307 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
1308 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
1309 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
1311 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
1312 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
1313 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
1314 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
1315 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
1316 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
1317 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
1318 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
1319 suggestion from James Troup
1320 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
1321 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
1322 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
1323 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
1326 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
1328 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
1331 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
1333 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
1335 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
1338 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
1339 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
1340 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
1341 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
1342 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
1343 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
1345 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
1347 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
1350 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
1351 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
1352 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
1353 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
1354 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
1356 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
1357 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
1359 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
1361 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
1363 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
1367 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
1368 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
1369 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
1370 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
1371 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
1373 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
1374 with intro; demoted server sections under that
1375 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
1376 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
1378 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
1379 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
1380 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
1381 a normal developer may have access.
1383 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
1385 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
1388 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
1389 step all over each other
1391 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
1393 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
1396 address for PGP key updates
1398 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
1400 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
1403 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
1404 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
1405 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
1406 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
1408 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
1410 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
1413 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
1414 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
1415 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
1416 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
1417 <keyring-maint> instead)
1418 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
1419 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
1421 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
1423 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
1424 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
1425 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
1427 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
1429 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1431 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
1432 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
1433 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
1434 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
1435 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
1436 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
1438 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
1439 tighten up the language a bit
1440 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
1441 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
1442 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
1443 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
1445 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
1446 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
1447 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
1448 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
1449 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
1450 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
1452 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
1453 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
1454 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
1455 about how to depart Debian gracefully
1456 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
1457 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
1458 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
1459 number of available packages
1460 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
1461 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
1463 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
1465 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
1470 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
1472 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * not officially released
1475 * more spelling corrections
1476 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
1478 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
1480 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * not officially released
1483 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
1484 * some PGP-centricity removed
1485 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
1486 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
1487 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
1488 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
1489 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
1490 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
1492 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
1494 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1496 * not officially released
1497 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
1498 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
1499 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
1500 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
1501 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
1502 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
1503 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
1504 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
1505 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
1506 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
1507 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
1508 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
1509 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
1510 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
1512 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
1513 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
1515 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
1517 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
1518 take a couple of weeks
1519 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
1520 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
1521 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
1522 excited about it and can't wait
1523 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
1524 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
1526 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
1527 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
1529 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
1530 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
1531 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
1533 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
1535 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1537 * move to 3-level version number:
1538 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
1539 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
1540 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
1541 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
1542 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
1545 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
1546 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
1547 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
1549 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
1551 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
1552 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
1553 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
1554 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
1555 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
1556 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
1558 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
1560 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
1561 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
1562 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
1563 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
1564 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
1565 - "The CVS server": new section added
1566 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
1568 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
1569 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
1570 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
1571 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
1572 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
1573 with respect to GPG.
1574 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
1575 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
1576 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
1577 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
1578 a canonical location?)
1579 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
1580 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
1581 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
1582 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
1584 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
1586 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
1587 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
1588 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
1589 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
1591 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
1593 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
1596 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
1597 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
1598 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
1599 them. (closes Bug#26948)
1600 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
1601 and should not be included in this Reference.
1602 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
1603 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
1604 maintainer tools only!
1605 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
1606 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
1607 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
1608 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
1609 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
1610 * Little corrections here and there.
1611 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
1612 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
1615 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
1617 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
1620 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
1621 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
1623 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
1624 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
1625 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
1626 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
1627 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
1628 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
1629 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
1630 do prior to uploading
1631 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
1632 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
1634 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
1635 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
1636 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
1637 duties with respect to bugs
1638 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
1639 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
1640 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
1642 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
1643 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
1644 * grammar and markup changes throughout
1645 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
1646 explicit what is used to build this package
1648 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
1650 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * version number and date are automatically populated now
1654 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
1655 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
1656 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
1657 * utilize the new URL tag
1658 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
1661 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
1663 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1665 * non-maintainer release
1666 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
1667 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
1668 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
1669 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
1670 text, it can't hurt you.)
1671 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
1672 reflect this packages version number
1673 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
1675 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
1677 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1681 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
1683 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1685 * New version numbering scheme:
1687 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1688 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1689 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1692 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1693 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1694 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1695 differ between the manuals.
1697 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1698 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1699 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1700 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1702 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1703 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1705 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1707 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1709 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1713 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1714 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1716 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1717 (as requested by James Troup)
1719 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1721 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1723 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1725 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1729 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1731 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1733 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1734 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1735 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1736 the non-maintainer release
1738 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1739 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1740 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1743 - Lots of typos fixed
1745 * Compressed SGML source code
1747 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1748 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1750 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1752 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1754 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1757 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1758 - Announcing package uploads
1759 * New section about Debian Mentors
1760 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1761 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1762 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1763 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1765 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1767 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1770 of our FTP server and the development process
1771 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1772 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1773 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1775 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1776 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1777 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1778 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1779 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1780 contacting the maintainer
1781 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1782 a new manual released soon)
1783 * Some minor changes
1784 * Include SGML source in package
1785 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1786 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1788 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1790 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1794 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200
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