1 developers-reference (3.4.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Applied patch from Justin B Rye that improves the discussion on writing
4 package descriptions. Closes: #516436.
6 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:18:29 +0200
8 developers-reference (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
15 * Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
16 The most important changes are:
17 + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
18 + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
21 + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
22 with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
23 + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
24 distinction. Closes: #464230.
25 + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
26 + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
27 * Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
28 W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
29 * Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
30 Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
32 * Update instructions on the delayed queue.
33 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
35 * Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
36 Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
38 * Improved README.contrib. Mention command to checkout the SVN
39 version. Thanks to Christine Spang for the patch.
41 * Document usertags. Thanks to Chris Lamb for the patch.
43 * Updated documentation on translation updates.
44 Thanks to Christian Perrier for the patch.
46 * Update instructions on handling of security issues.
47 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
48 Closes: #512620, #510783.
50 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:57:54 +0100
52 developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
56 * Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. Closes: #470754.
57 * linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.
58 * Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.
59 * Collaborative Maintenance: the 'global part' of debian/control
60 is the first paragraph, about the source package. Closes: #483231.
61 * debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.
62 * Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package.
64 * README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
66 * build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
69 [ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
70 * Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
71 * In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
72 release codenames in <literal>
73 * Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
74 doesn't exist anymore.
75 * Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
76 thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
77 * Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
78 and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
79 * Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
80 the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
81 fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandings
82 about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
83 * Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
84 distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
85 team before upload. Closes: #459343
86 * Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
87 * Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
88 need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
89 hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
90 on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806
91 * Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
92 pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
94 * Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
95 description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
97 * Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
98 have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
99 debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
100 * Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
101 ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
102 Thomas. Closes: #485837
104 + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
105 + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!
107 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:45:49 +0200
109 developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
113 - bump standards-version to 3.7.3 (no change)
114 - fix debian/copyright
115 - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
116 - add pdf for French version.
117 * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
118 * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
119 Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
120 * Keyring now uses RT. Closes: #428846
121 * Document -dbg-packages within BPs. Thanks, Joey Hess. Closes: #420540
122 * NMUs now also close bugs. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum. Closes: #419507
123 * Fix documentation about gender neutral. Closes: #384178
124 * Fix typo. Closes: #405453
125 * More details on how to write documentation. Thanks, Josh Triplett.
127 * Add XS-Vcs-*. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli. Closes: #391023
128 * Small brushup to debconf description. Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.
130 * Document Team-Maintainence better. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum.
132 * Add link to more removal ressources. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt,
133 Justin Pryzby. Closes: #412757, #356720
134 * Repacking source packages need to be documented in copyright.
135 Thanks, Russ Allbery. Closes: #413320
136 * Better describe version of debian native packages NMUs. Closes: #405818
137 * Source, HTML and text are now encoded in UTF-8. Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
139 * Source is now DocBook XML instead of debiandoc. Closes: #374220
142 * Add a link to enrico's excellent Debian Community Guidelines.
143 * Recommend the use of DSA's request tracker instead of mailing them.
144 * Remove reference to #debian-sf, #debian-bsd which don't exist anymore. Put
145 a reference to #debian-dpkg instead.
146 * Remove all stuff concerning non-US.
147 * Update information concerning Alioth.
148 * Update information concerning the Package Tracking System.
149 * Mention Alioth as the main resource for VCS repositories and deprecate
151 * Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.
152 * Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
154 * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields pointing to the new SVN
157 -- W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:16:40 +0000
159 developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
161 * mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
163 * fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
164 * use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
166 * better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
167 the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
168 * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
170 * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
171 Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
172 * Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
174 * Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
175 Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
176 * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
177 to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
178 * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
179 * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
180 * stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
181 Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
182 Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
183 * add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
184 * add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
185 20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
187 * section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
188 Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
189 * binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
190 Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
191 * Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
192 * Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
193 * Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
194 * pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
195 * clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
196 * more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
200 - French translation updated to version 3.3.8
202 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
204 developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
207 - adjust information about distributions with reality.
208 - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
209 - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
210 - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
211 - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
212 - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
214 - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
216 - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
218 - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
220 - non-us discontinued.
221 - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
223 - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
224 Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
225 - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
226 - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
227 - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
228 - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
229 Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
230 - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
231 - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
232 - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
233 - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
234 - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
235 - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
236 - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
237 - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
238 - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
239 - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
240 - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
242 - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
243 - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
245 - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
248 - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
250 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
252 developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
255 - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
256 - madison is on merkel.
257 - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
258 - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
259 - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
260 - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
261 - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
262 - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
264 - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
265 - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
266 - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
267 - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
268 - sync NM rules with reality.
270 - French translation updated to version 3.3.6
272 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:49 -0700
274 developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
277 - uploads to more than one dist are not possible.
278 - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213
279 - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048
280 - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464
281 - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298
282 - spelling, grammer fixes.
283 Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208
284 - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968
285 - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814
286 - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021
287 - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654
288 - add myself to uploaders.
289 - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156
290 - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845
291 - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402
292 - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961
293 - add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
294 - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
295 - add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
296 - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
297 - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
298 - updated information about testing distribution. Closes: #266649.
299 - rewrote the NMU section, and
300 + made the possible severities of "target bugs" clearer. Closes: #233088.
301 + mention QA uploads. Closes: #202416.
302 + add -B for binNMUs, and local debsign usage. Closes: #208839.
303 + warning about breaking all-packages by binNMU. Closes: #213348.
304 - add information about gpg usage. Closes: #175815.
305 - make key replacement instructions more details. Closes: #275921
306 - typo and language fixes. Thanks, Era Eriksson. Closes: #277576
307 - add hints about debconf templates from Christian Perrier.
309 - Security uploads get urgency=high
310 - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
312 - French translation updated to version 3.3.5
314 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:07:26 +0100
316 developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
319 - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
320 Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
321 - updated the mailing lists section (again)
322 - documented Alioth, somewhat
324 - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
325 - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
327 - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
328 - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
329 - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
330 - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
334 - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
336 - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
337 Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
338 Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
339 bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
342 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:09:48 -0500
344 developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
347 - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
349 - updated documentation concerning the PTS
350 - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
351 - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
353 - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
354 - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
355 section on security bugs; closes: #196516
356 - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
359 - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
361 - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
362 - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
363 - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
364 - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
365 directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
367 - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
368 it clear these are special cases
369 - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
371 - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
373 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
375 developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
378 - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
379 - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
381 - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
383 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
385 developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
388 - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
390 - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
391 - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
392 - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
394 - more improvements to package synopsis and description
395 - the synopsis formula changed to either
396 <package-name> is a <synopsis>
398 <package-name> is <synopsis>
400 <package-name> are <synopsis>
402 - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
403 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
404 - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
405 - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
406 package; closes: #187143
408 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
410 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
413 - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
414 - proofread by Philippe Batailler
416 - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
418 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
419 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
420 - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
421 architecture-independent data bundled with programs
422 - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
423 kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
424 - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
425 right places in the document, closes: #172897
426 - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
430 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
432 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
433 - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
434 - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
435 table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
436 note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
437 package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
438 allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
440 - editorial changes on material added in this version
441 - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
442 - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
443 from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
444 closes: #139957, #108416
445 - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
446 emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
448 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
450 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
453 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
455 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
456 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
457 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
458 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
460 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
461 for best practices for documentation
462 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
463 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
464 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
465 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
467 - spell-checking pass
469 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
471 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
474 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
475 descriptions" moved under there
476 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
477 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
478 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
479 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
480 the document where these tools are discussed
481 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
482 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
483 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
484 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
485 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
486 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
488 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
489 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
490 that can be fixed by DDP folks
491 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
492 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
493 - simply PS and PDF building rules
495 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
497 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
500 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
501 section and adjusted links
502 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
504 - ChangeLog attribution updates
505 - fix typos, closes: #171781
506 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
507 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
508 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
509 for debian/rules", and write an intro
510 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
511 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
512 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
513 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
514 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
515 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
516 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
517 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
518 "Internationalization"
519 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
520 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
521 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
522 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
523 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
524 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
525 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
526 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
527 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
529 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
530 rather useless and broken
531 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
532 names and the first word
533 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
534 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
535 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
537 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
538 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
539 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
541 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
543 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
546 - DDP publishing update
548 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
549 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
550 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
551 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
553 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
555 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
558 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
559 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
560 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
562 - added myself as co-author
563 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
565 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
566 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
568 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
569 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
571 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
573 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
576 - Corrected several errors with —
577 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
578 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
579 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
580 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
581 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
582 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
583 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
585 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
586 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
587 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
588 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
589 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
590 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
591 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
592 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
593 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
595 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
596 descriptions". closes: #158609
597 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
598 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
599 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
600 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
601 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
603 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
604 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
605 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
606 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
607 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
608 - updated the mailing lists section
610 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
611 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
614 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
616 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
619 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
620 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
622 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
624 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
625 Ch "The Debian Archive"
627 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
629 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
630 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
631 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
632 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
633 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
635 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
636 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
637 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
638 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
639 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
640 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
641 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
643 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
644 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
647 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
648 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
649 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
650 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
651 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
652 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
653 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
654 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
655 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
656 work-around with <...>
657 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
658 - update copyright date
659 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
660 - spell check and grammar corrections
664 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
666 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
667 recompile"; closes: #102626
668 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
669 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
670 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
671 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
672 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
674 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
675 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
676 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
678 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
680 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
681 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
682 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
683 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
684 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
685 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
686 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
687 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
688 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
690 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
692 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
694 - updated the list of available architectures.
695 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
696 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
697 of the package and nothing more.
698 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
699 any pain to the ftpmasters.
700 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
701 the use of the delayed queue.
702 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
703 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
705 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
706 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
707 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
708 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
709 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
710 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
711 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
713 - new Sec "Documentation"
714 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
715 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
716 "Being kind to porter" too
717 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
718 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
719 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
720 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
721 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
723 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
724 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
727 - update French translation
729 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
731 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
734 - some grammar corrections
735 - update French translation
737 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
738 anymore; closes: #135559
739 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
741 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
743 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
744 that would be welcome)
745 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
746 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
747 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
748 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
749 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
750 - other minor wording changes
751 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
752 - Ch "Package uploads":
753 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
754 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
755 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
756 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
757 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
758 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
759 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
761 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
763 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
765 * from Martin Michlmayr
766 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
767 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
768 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
770 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
772 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
774 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
776 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
777 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
778 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
781 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
783 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
786 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
788 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
791 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
793 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
794 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
795 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
796 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
797 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
798 talking about uploading to distributions
799 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
800 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
801 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
803 - French translation updated
805 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
806 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
807 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
809 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
811 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
814 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
815 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
818 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
820 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
823 * fix a typo in a link
824 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
825 update documentation accordingly
827 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
828 forwarding bugs upstream
830 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
831 entities which should be used
832 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
833 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
835 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
837 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
839 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
840 * French version: completely up-to-date now
841 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
842 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
844 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
847 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
849 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
851 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
853 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
854 this translation needs updating
855 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
856 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
857 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
859 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
860 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
861 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
863 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
864 included yet, however
866 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
868 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
870 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
872 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
873 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
875 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
877 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
879 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
881 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
882 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
883 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
885 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
887 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
889 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
892 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
893 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
894 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
895 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
896 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
897 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
898 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
899 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
900 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
901 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
902 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
903 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
905 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
906 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
907 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
908 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
909 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
911 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
913 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
914 * update copyright notice for 2001
915 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
916 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
917 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
919 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
921 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
923 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
925 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
927 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
929 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
931 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
934 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
936 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
937 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
938 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
939 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
940 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
941 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
942 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
943 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
944 could be used if necessary
945 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
946 mention the rsync dupload method
947 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
949 * other small corrections
950 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
951 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
952 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
953 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
955 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
957 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
958 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
960 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
962 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
964 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
965 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
966 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
967 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
969 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
970 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
971 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
972 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
973 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
975 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
977 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
978 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
979 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
980 team (closes: Bug#52906)
981 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
982 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
983 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
985 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
986 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
987 - added a section about the LDAP database
988 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
989 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
991 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
992 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
994 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
996 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
999 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
1000 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
1002 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
1003 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
1004 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
1005 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
1006 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
1007 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
1008 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
1009 description from developers-reference.sgml
1011 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
1013 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
1016 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
1018 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
1020 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
1021 releases are available at archive.debian.org
1022 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
1023 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
1024 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
1025 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
1026 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
1027 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
1028 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
1029 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
1031 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
1032 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
1033 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
1034 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
1036 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
1037 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
1038 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
1039 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
1040 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
1041 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
1042 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
1043 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
1044 suggestion from James Troup
1045 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
1046 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
1047 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
1048 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
1051 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
1053 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
1056 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
1058 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
1060 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
1063 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
1064 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
1065 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
1066 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
1067 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
1068 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
1070 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
1072 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
1075 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
1076 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
1077 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
1078 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
1079 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
1081 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
1082 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
1084 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
1086 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
1088 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
1092 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
1093 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
1094 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
1095 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
1096 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
1098 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
1099 with intro; demoted server sections under that
1100 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
1101 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
1103 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
1104 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
1105 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
1106 a normal developer may have access.
1108 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
1110 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
1113 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
1114 step all over each other
1116 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
1118 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
1121 address for PGP key updates
1123 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
1125 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
1128 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
1129 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
1130 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
1131 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
1133 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
1135 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
1138 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
1139 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
1140 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
1141 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
1142 <keyring-maint> instead)
1143 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
1144 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
1146 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
1148 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
1149 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
1150 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
1152 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
1154 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1156 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
1157 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
1158 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
1159 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
1160 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
1161 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
1163 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
1164 tighten up the language a bit
1165 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
1166 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
1167 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
1168 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
1170 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
1171 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
1172 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
1173 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
1174 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
1175 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
1177 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
1178 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
1179 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
1180 about how to depart Debian gracefully
1181 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
1182 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
1183 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
1184 number of available packages
1185 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
1186 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
1188 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
1190 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
1195 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
1197 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * not officially released
1200 * more spelling corrections
1201 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
1203 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
1205 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * not officially released
1208 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
1209 * some PGP-centricity removed
1210 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
1211 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
1212 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
1213 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
1214 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
1215 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
1217 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
1219 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1221 * not officially released
1222 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
1223 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
1224 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
1225 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
1226 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
1227 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
1228 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
1229 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
1230 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
1231 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
1232 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
1233 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
1234 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
1235 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
1237 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
1238 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
1240 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
1242 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
1243 take a couple of weeks
1244 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
1245 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
1246 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
1247 excited about it and can't wait
1248 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
1249 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
1251 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
1252 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
1254 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
1255 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
1256 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
1258 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
1260 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1262 * move to 3-level version number:
1263 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
1264 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
1265 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
1266 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
1267 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
1270 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
1271 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
1272 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
1274 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
1276 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
1277 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
1278 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
1279 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
1280 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
1281 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
1283 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
1285 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
1286 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
1287 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
1288 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
1289 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
1290 - "The CVS server": new section added
1291 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
1293 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
1294 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
1295 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
1296 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
1297 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
1298 with respect to GPG.
1299 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
1300 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
1301 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
1302 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
1303 a canonical location?)
1304 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
1305 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
1306 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
1307 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
1309 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
1311 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
1312 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
1313 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
1314 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
1316 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
1318 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
1321 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
1322 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
1323 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
1324 them. (closes Bug#26948)
1325 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
1326 and should not be included in this Reference.
1327 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
1328 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
1329 maintainer tools only!
1330 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
1331 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
1332 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
1333 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
1334 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
1335 * Little corrections here and there.
1336 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
1337 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
1340 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
1342 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
1345 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
1346 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
1348 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
1349 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
1350 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
1351 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
1352 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
1353 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
1354 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
1355 do prior to uploading
1356 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
1357 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
1359 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
1360 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
1361 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
1362 duties with respect to bugs
1363 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
1364 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
1365 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
1367 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
1368 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
1369 * grammar and markup changes throughout
1370 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
1371 explicit what is used to build this package
1373 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
1375 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * version number and date are automatically populated now
1379 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
1380 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
1381 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
1382 * utilize the new URL tag
1383 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
1386 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
1388 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1390 * non-maintainer release
1391 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
1392 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
1393 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
1394 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
1395 text, it can't hurt you.)
1396 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
1397 reflect this packages version number
1398 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
1400 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
1402 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1406 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
1408 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1410 * New version numbering scheme:
1412 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1413 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1414 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1417 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1418 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1419 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1420 differ between the manuals.
1422 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1423 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1424 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1425 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1427 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1428 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1430 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1432 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1434 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1438 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1439 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1441 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1442 (as requested by James Troup)
1444 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1446 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1448 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1450 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1454 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1456 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1458 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1459 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1460 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1461 the non-maintainer release
1463 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1464 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1465 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1468 - Lots of typos fixed
1470 * Compressed SGML source code
1472 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1473 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1475 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1477 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1479 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1482 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1483 - Announcing package uploads
1484 * New section about Debian Mentors
1485 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1486 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1487 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1488 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1490 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1492 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1495 of our FTP server and the development process
1496 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1497 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1498 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1500 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1501 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1502 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1503 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1504 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1505 contacting the maintainer
1506 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1507 a new manual released soon)
1508 * Some minor changes
1509 * Include SGML source in package
1510 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1511 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1513 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1515 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1519 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200
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