1 developers-reference (3.4.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
8 * Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
9 The most important changes are:
10 + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
11 + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
14 + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
15 with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
16 + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
17 distinction. Closes: #464230.
18 + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
19 + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
20 * Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
21 W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
22 * Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
23 Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
26 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:50:08 +0100
28 developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
32 * Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. Closes: #470754.
33 * linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.
34 * Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.
35 * Collaborative Maintenance: the 'global part' of debian/control
36 is the first paragraph, about the source package. Closes: #483231.
37 * debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.
38 * Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package.
40 * README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
42 * build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
45 [ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
46 * Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
47 * In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
48 release codenames in <literal>
49 * Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
50 doesn't exist anymore.
51 * Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
52 thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
53 * Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
54 and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
55 * Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
56 the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
57 fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandings
58 about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
59 * Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
60 distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
61 team before upload. Closes: #459343
62 * Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
63 * Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
64 need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
65 hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
66 on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806
67 * Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
68 pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
70 * Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
71 description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
73 * Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
74 have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
75 debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
76 * Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
77 ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
78 Thomas. Closes: #485837
80 + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
81 + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!
83 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:45:49 +0200
85 developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
89 - bump standards-version to 3.7.3 (no change)
90 - fix debian/copyright
91 - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
92 - add pdf for French version.
93 * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
94 * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
95 Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
96 * Keyring now uses RT. Closes: #428846
97 * Document -dbg-packages within BPs. Thanks, Joey Hess. Closes: #420540
98 * NMUs now also close bugs. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum. Closes: #419507
99 * Fix documentation about gender neutral. Closes: #384178
100 * Fix typo. Closes: #405453
101 * More details on how to write documentation. Thanks, Josh Triplett.
103 * Add XS-Vcs-*. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli. Closes: #391023
104 * Small brushup to debconf description. Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.
106 * Document Team-Maintainence better. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum.
108 * Add link to more removal ressources. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt,
109 Justin Pryzby. Closes: #412757, #356720
110 * Repacking source packages need to be documented in copyright.
111 Thanks, Russ Allbery. Closes: #413320
112 * Better describe version of debian native packages NMUs. Closes: #405818
113 * Source, HTML and text are now encoded in UTF-8. Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
115 * Source is now DocBook XML instead of debiandoc. Closes: #374220
118 * Add a link to enrico's excellent Debian Community Guidelines.
119 * Recommend the use of DSA's request tracker instead of mailing them.
120 * Remove reference to #debian-sf, #debian-bsd which don't exist anymore. Put
121 a reference to #debian-dpkg instead.
122 * Remove all stuff concerning non-US.
123 * Update information concerning Alioth.
124 * Update information concerning the Package Tracking System.
125 * Mention Alioth as the main resource for VCS repositories and deprecate
127 * Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.
128 * Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
130 * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields pointing to the new SVN
133 -- W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:16:40 +0000
135 developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
137 * mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
139 * fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
140 * use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
142 * better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
143 the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
144 * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
146 * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
147 Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
148 * Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
150 * Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
151 Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
152 * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
153 to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
154 * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
155 * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
156 * stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
157 Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
158 Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
159 * add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
160 * add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
161 20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
163 * section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
164 Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
165 * binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
166 Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
167 * Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
168 * Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
169 * Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
170 * pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
171 * clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
172 * more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
176 - French translation updated to version 3.3.8
178 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
180 developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
183 - adjust information about distributions with reality.
184 - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
185 - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
186 - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
187 - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
188 - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
190 - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
192 - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
194 - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
196 - non-us discontinued.
197 - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
199 - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
200 Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
201 - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
202 - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
203 - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
204 - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
205 Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
206 - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
207 - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
208 - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
209 - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
210 - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
211 - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
212 - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
213 - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
214 - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
215 - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
216 - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
218 - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
219 - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
221 - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
224 - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
226 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
228 developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
231 - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
232 - madison is on merkel.
233 - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
234 - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
235 - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
236 - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
237 - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
238 - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
240 - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
241 - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
242 - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
243 - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
244 - sync NM rules with reality.
246 - French translation updated to version 3.3.6
248 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:49 -0700
250 developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
253 - uploads to more than one dist are not possible.
254 - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213
255 - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048
256 - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464
257 - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298
258 - spelling, grammer fixes.
259 Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208
260 - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968
261 - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814
262 - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021
263 - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654
264 - add myself to uploaders.
265 - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156
266 - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845
267 - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402
268 - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961
269 - add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
270 - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
271 - add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
272 - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
273 - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
274 - updated information about testing distribution. Closes: #266649.
275 - rewrote the NMU section, and
276 + made the possible severities of "target bugs" clearer. Closes: #233088.
277 + mention QA uploads. Closes: #202416.
278 + add -B for binNMUs, and local debsign usage. Closes: #208839.
279 + warning about breaking all-packages by binNMU. Closes: #213348.
280 - add information about gpg usage. Closes: #175815.
281 - make key replacement instructions more details. Closes: #275921
282 - typo and language fixes. Thanks, Era Eriksson. Closes: #277576
283 - add hints about debconf templates from Christian Perrier.
285 - Security uploads get urgency=high
286 - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
288 - French translation updated to version 3.3.5
290 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:07:26 +0100
292 developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
295 - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
296 Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
297 - updated the mailing lists section (again)
298 - documented Alioth, somewhat
300 - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
301 - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
303 - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
304 - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
305 - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
306 - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
310 - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
312 - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
313 Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
314 Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
315 bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
318 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:09:48 -0500
320 developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
323 - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
325 - updated documentation concerning the PTS
326 - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
327 - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
329 - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
330 - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
331 section on security bugs; closes: #196516
332 - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
335 - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
337 - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
338 - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
339 - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
340 - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
341 directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
343 - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
344 it clear these are special cases
345 - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
347 - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
349 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
351 developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
354 - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
355 - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
357 - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
359 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
361 developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
364 - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
366 - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
367 - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
368 - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
370 - more improvements to package synopsis and description
371 - the synopsis formula changed to either
372 <package-name> is a <synopsis>
374 <package-name> is <synopsis>
376 <package-name> are <synopsis>
378 - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
379 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
380 - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
381 - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
382 package; closes: #187143
384 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
386 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
389 - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
390 - proofread by Philippe Batailler
392 - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
394 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
395 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
396 - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
397 architecture-independent data bundled with programs
398 - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
399 kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
400 - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
401 right places in the document, closes: #172897
402 - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
406 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
408 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
409 - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
410 - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
411 table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
412 note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
413 package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
414 allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
416 - editorial changes on material added in this version
417 - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
418 - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
419 from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
420 closes: #139957, #108416
421 - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
422 emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
424 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
426 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
429 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
431 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
432 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
433 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
434 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
436 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
437 for best practices for documentation
438 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
439 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
440 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
441 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
443 - spell-checking pass
445 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
447 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
450 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
451 descriptions" moved under there
452 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
453 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
454 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
455 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
456 the document where these tools are discussed
457 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
458 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
459 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
460 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
461 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
462 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
464 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
465 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
466 that can be fixed by DDP folks
467 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
468 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
469 - simply PS and PDF building rules
471 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
473 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
476 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
477 section and adjusted links
478 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
480 - ChangeLog attribution updates
481 - fix typos, closes: #171781
482 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
483 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
484 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
485 for debian/rules", and write an intro
486 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
487 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
488 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
489 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
490 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
491 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
492 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
493 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
494 "Internationalization"
495 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
496 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
497 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
498 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
499 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
500 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
501 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
502 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
503 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
505 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
506 rather useless and broken
507 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
508 names and the first word
509 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
510 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
511 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
513 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
514 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
515 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
517 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
519 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
522 - DDP publishing update
524 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
525 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
526 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
527 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
529 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
531 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
534 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
535 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
536 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
538 - added myself as co-author
539 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
541 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
542 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
544 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
545 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
547 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
549 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
552 - Corrected several errors with —
553 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
554 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
555 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
556 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
557 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
558 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
559 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
561 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
562 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
563 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
564 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
565 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
566 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
567 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
568 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
569 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
571 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
572 descriptions". closes: #158609
573 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
574 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
575 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
576 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
577 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
579 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
580 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
581 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
582 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
583 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
584 - updated the mailing lists section
586 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
587 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
590 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
592 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
595 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
596 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
598 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
600 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
601 Ch "The Debian Archive"
603 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
605 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
606 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
607 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
608 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
609 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
611 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
612 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
613 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
614 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
615 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
616 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
617 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
619 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
620 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
623 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
624 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
625 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
626 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
627 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
628 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
629 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
630 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
631 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
632 work-around with <...>
633 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
634 - update copyright date
635 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
636 - spell check and grammar corrections
640 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
642 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
643 recompile"; closes: #102626
644 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
645 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
646 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
647 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
648 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
650 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
651 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
652 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
654 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
656 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
657 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
658 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
659 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
660 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
661 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
662 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
663 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
664 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
666 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
668 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
670 - updated the list of available architectures.
671 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
672 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
673 of the package and nothing more.
674 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
675 any pain to the ftpmasters.
676 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
677 the use of the delayed queue.
678 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
679 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
681 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
682 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
683 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
684 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
685 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
686 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
687 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
689 - new Sec "Documentation"
690 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
691 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
692 "Being kind to porter" too
693 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
694 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
695 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
696 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
697 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
699 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
700 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
703 - update French translation
705 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
707 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
710 - some grammar corrections
711 - update French translation
713 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
714 anymore; closes: #135559
715 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
717 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
719 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
720 that would be welcome)
721 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
722 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
723 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
724 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
725 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
726 - other minor wording changes
727 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
728 - Ch "Package uploads":
729 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
730 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
731 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
732 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
733 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
734 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
735 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
737 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
739 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
741 * from Martin Michlmayr
742 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
743 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
744 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
746 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
748 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
750 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
752 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
753 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
754 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
757 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
759 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
762 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
764 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
767 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
769 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
770 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
771 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
772 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
773 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
774 talking about uploading to distributions
775 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
776 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
777 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
779 - French translation updated
781 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
782 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
783 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
785 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
787 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
790 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
791 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
794 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
796 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
799 * fix a typo in a link
800 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
801 update documentation accordingly
803 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
804 forwarding bugs upstream
806 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
807 entities which should be used
808 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
809 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
811 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
813 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
815 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
816 * French version: completely up-to-date now
817 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
818 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
820 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
823 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
825 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
827 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
829 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
830 this translation needs updating
831 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
832 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
833 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
835 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
836 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
837 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
839 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
840 included yet, however
842 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
844 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
846 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
848 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
849 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
851 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
853 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
855 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
857 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
858 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
859 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
861 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
863 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
865 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
868 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
869 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
870 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
871 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
872 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
873 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
874 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
875 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
876 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
877 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
878 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
879 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
881 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
882 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
883 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
884 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
885 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
887 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
889 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
890 * update copyright notice for 2001
891 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
892 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
893 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
895 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
897 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
899 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
901 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
903 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
905 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
907 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
910 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
912 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
913 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
914 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
915 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
916 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
917 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
918 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
919 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
920 could be used if necessary
921 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
922 mention the rsync dupload method
923 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
925 * other small corrections
926 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
927 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
928 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
929 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
931 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
933 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
934 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
936 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
938 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
940 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
941 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
942 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
943 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
945 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
946 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
947 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
948 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
949 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
951 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
953 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
954 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
955 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
956 team (closes: Bug#52906)
957 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
958 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
959 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
961 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
962 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
963 - added a section about the LDAP database
964 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
965 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
967 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
968 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
970 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
972 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
975 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
976 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
978 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
979 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
980 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
981 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
982 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
983 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
984 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
985 description from developers-reference.sgml
987 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
989 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
991 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
992 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
994 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
996 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
997 releases are available at archive.debian.org
998 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
999 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
1000 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
1001 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
1002 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
1003 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
1004 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
1005 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
1007 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
1008 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
1009 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
1010 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
1012 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
1013 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
1014 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
1015 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
1016 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
1017 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
1018 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
1019 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
1020 suggestion from James Troup
1021 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
1022 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
1023 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
1024 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
1027 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
1029 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
1032 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
1034 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
1036 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
1039 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
1040 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
1041 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
1042 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
1043 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
1044 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
1046 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
1048 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
1051 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
1052 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
1053 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
1054 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
1055 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
1057 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
1058 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
1060 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
1062 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
1064 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
1068 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
1069 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
1070 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
1071 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
1072 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
1074 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
1075 with intro; demoted server sections under that
1076 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
1077 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
1079 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
1080 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
1081 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
1082 a normal developer may have access.
1084 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
1086 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
1089 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
1090 step all over each other
1092 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
1094 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
1097 address for PGP key updates
1099 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
1101 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
1104 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
1105 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
1106 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
1107 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
1109 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
1111 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
1114 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
1115 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
1116 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
1117 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
1118 <keyring-maint> instead)
1119 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
1120 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
1122 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
1124 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
1125 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
1126 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
1128 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
1130 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1132 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
1133 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
1134 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
1135 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
1136 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
1137 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
1139 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
1140 tighten up the language a bit
1141 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
1142 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
1143 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
1144 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
1146 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
1147 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
1148 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
1149 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
1150 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
1151 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
1153 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
1154 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
1155 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
1156 about how to depart Debian gracefully
1157 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
1158 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
1159 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
1160 number of available packages
1161 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
1162 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
1164 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
1166 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
1171 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
1173 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * not officially released
1176 * more spelling corrections
1177 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
1179 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
1181 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * not officially released
1184 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
1185 * some PGP-centricity removed
1186 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
1187 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
1188 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
1189 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
1190 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
1191 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
1193 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
1195 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1197 * not officially released
1198 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
1199 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
1200 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
1201 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
1202 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
1203 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
1204 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
1205 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
1206 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
1207 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
1208 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
1209 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
1210 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
1211 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
1213 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
1214 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
1216 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
1218 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
1219 take a couple of weeks
1220 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
1221 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
1222 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
1223 excited about it and can't wait
1224 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
1225 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
1227 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
1228 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
1230 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
1231 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
1232 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
1234 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
1236 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1238 * move to 3-level version number:
1239 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
1240 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
1241 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
1242 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
1243 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
1246 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
1247 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
1248 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
1250 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
1252 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
1253 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
1254 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
1255 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
1256 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
1257 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
1259 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
1261 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
1262 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
1263 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
1264 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
1265 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
1266 - "The CVS server": new section added
1267 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
1269 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
1270 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
1271 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
1272 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
1273 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
1274 with respect to GPG.
1275 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
1276 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
1277 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
1278 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
1279 a canonical location?)
1280 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
1281 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
1282 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
1283 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
1285 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
1287 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
1288 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
1289 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
1290 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
1292 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
1294 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
1297 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
1298 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
1299 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
1300 them. (closes Bug#26948)
1301 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
1302 and should not be included in this Reference.
1303 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
1304 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
1305 maintainer tools only!
1306 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
1307 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
1308 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
1309 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
1310 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
1311 * Little corrections here and there.
1312 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
1313 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
1316 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
1318 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
1321 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
1322 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
1324 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
1325 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
1326 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
1327 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
1328 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
1329 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
1330 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
1331 do prior to uploading
1332 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
1333 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
1335 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
1336 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
1337 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
1338 duties with respect to bugs
1339 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
1340 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
1341 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
1343 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
1344 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
1345 * grammar and markup changes throughout
1346 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
1347 explicit what is used to build this package
1349 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
1351 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * version number and date are automatically populated now
1355 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
1356 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
1357 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
1358 * utilize the new URL tag
1359 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
1362 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
1364 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1366 * non-maintainer release
1367 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
1368 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
1369 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
1370 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
1371 text, it can't hurt you.)
1372 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
1373 reflect this packages version number
1374 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
1376 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
1378 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1382 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
1384 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1386 * New version numbering scheme:
1388 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1389 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1390 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1393 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1394 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1395 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1396 differ between the manuals.
1398 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1399 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1400 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1401 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1403 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1404 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1406 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1408 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1410 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1414 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1415 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1417 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1418 (as requested by James Troup)
1420 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1422 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1424 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1426 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1430 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1432 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1434 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1435 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1436 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1437 the non-maintainer release
1439 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1440 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1441 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1444 - Lots of typos fixed
1446 * Compressed SGML source code
1448 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1449 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1451 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1453 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1455 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1458 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1459 - Announcing package uploads
1460 * New section about Debian Mentors
1461 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1462 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1463 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1464 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1466 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1468 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1471 of our FTP server and the development process
1472 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1473 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1474 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1476 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1477 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1478 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1479 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1480 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1481 contacting the maintainer
1482 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1483 a new manual released soon)
1484 * Some minor changes
1485 * Include SGML source in package
1486 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1487 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1489 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1491 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1495 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200