1 developers-reference (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
4 * Update versioning advice for security uploads as well. Closes: #709218
5 Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso for the patch.
7 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:06:40 +0200
9 developers-reference (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
14 * Add recommendations to re-introduce packages. Thanks to Paul Wise for the
15 patch. Closes: #685039
16 * Drop paragraph about vanilla debian/rules files which mainly points to a
17 no-longer working link.
20 * Introduce epub support. Closes: #652044
23 * Update versioning advice for uploads to stable/testing. Closes: #685646
24 * Advise to use codename-security instead of stable-security.
27 [ Translation updates ]
28 * French by David Prévot.
29 * Japanese by victory.
30 * German by Chris Leick.
34 - Update Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no change required).
35 - Use canonical URL for Vcs-Svn.
37 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Thu, 16 May 2013 18:35:23 -0400
39 developers-reference (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Clarify that removals from testing are possible. Closes: #678710
45 Thanks to Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com> for the patch.
46 * Reword various parts to be gender-neutral. Closes: #678712
47 Thanks to Per Andersson and Steve Langasek for the patch.
48 * Recommend usage of gender-neutral formulations in README-contrib.
49 * Fix Vcs-Browser URL. Thanks to Charles Plessy who spotted it.
50 * Document the existence of "hints" that release managers can
51 use to tweak the conditions of testing migration. Closes: #679562
52 Thanks to Paul Gevers <paul@climbing.nl> for the patch.
54 [ Translation updates ]
55 * Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
56 * French by David Prévot.
57 * German by Chris Leick.
60 * Fix typo: Freenodes -> Freenode. Closes: #679735
62 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:34:59 -0400
64 developers-reference (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Move away po4a handling in its own directory with a single config file.
68 * Adapt Makefile and README-contrib to the current po4a tree.
69 * Upgrades to stable should be discussed using reportbug. Thanks to Don
70 Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> for the patch.
71 Acked-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> . Closes: #670362
72 * Use UTF-8 locale to prepare the text version. Closes: #658839
73 * Delayed queue goes from 0 to 15-day. Closes: #631353
76 * Make XeTeX backend to use xCJK package only for CJK and add tipa for
77 build dependency. (See #666569). Closes: #666578
79 * Translation updates (complete)
80 - French by David Prévot.
81 - German by Chris Leick.
84 * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.3 (no change required).
85 * Switch to xz compression for source.
86 * Clean up debian/rules by using dh (with compat level 8).
87 * Drop build-dependency on latex-cjk-xcjk since xeCJK.sty is provided
88 by texlive-xetex directly.
90 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:57:23 +0200
92 developers-reference (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Document some best practices for meta-packages. Extend those for
98 transitional packages. Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna
99 <dktrkranz@debian.org> (thanks!). Closes: #569219
100 * Update license pointer to correctly point to GPL-2. Closes: #643929
101 Thanks to Luca Falavigna.
102 * Update URL of Debian Mentors FAQ. Closes: #643930
103 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
104 * Refresh some release-specific information. Closes: #643931
105 Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna.
106 * Refresh some ftpmaster-related information. Closes: #643932
107 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
108 * Update minimal GPG key length to match current requirements.
109 Closes: #643933 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
110 * Update login information for rt.debian.org. Closes: #643934
111 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
112 * Drop section about yada. Its usage is highly discouraged. Closes: #643935
113 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
114 * Update best practice about unfuzzying PO file translations to recommend
115 msguntypot. Thanks to David Prévot for the patch.
116 Acked-by Christian Perrier. Closes: #655153
119 * Add doc-base file for the German translation.
120 * Typo fix, thanks to Andreas Moog. Closes: #655096
121 * Use XeTeX backend, that fix quotes in examples. Closes: #629530
122 * Build the Japanese PDF, thanks to Osamu Aoki and the maint-guide build
125 * Translation updates (all completed)
126 - Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
127 - German by Chris Leick.
128 - French by David Prévot.
130 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:36:12 -0400
132 developers-reference (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Update the NMU rules to take into account the 0-day NMU rule
136 instituted by the release managers. Closes: #625449
139 * Update my email address.
140 * Encourage the use of RT to contact the security team.
141 Patch from Thijs Kinkhorst. Closes: #610782
142 * Document the process of returning after retirement.
143 Patch from Serafeim Zanikolas. Closes: #540249
144 * Add instructions how to mark a non-free package as auto-buildable.
145 Patch from Moritz Muehlenhoff, ACKed by Andreas Barth.
148 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:52:10 +0200
150 developers-reference (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Remove part about -v for package uploads from experimental to unstable,
156 version tracking removed that requirement.
159 * Rework section on "sponsoring packages" and include a basic
160 checklist for the sponsor. Closes: #453313
161 * Update the "Debian Developer's Duties" chapter to be more explicit
162 about duties of package maintainers. Closes: #548867
163 * Update references to merkel (which is decommissionned) where
164 needed. Closes: #619990
165 Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.
166 * Many typos fixed by Chris Leick <c.leick@vollbio.de>. Closes: #623512
169 * Initial German translation.
172 * Activate German package. Closes: #623489
173 * Update French translation.
174 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. No changes needed.
175 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets.
176 * Explicitly refer to GPL-2 file in debian/copyright.
179 * Update Japanese translation.
181 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:56:46 -0400
183 developers-reference (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Document the new derivatives-bugs PTS keyword.
187 * Removed hp.debian.or.jp reference. Closes: 561597
190 * Update description of the PTS "summary" keyword. Thanks to
191 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #469154
192 * Add accent on my first name in debian/control.
193 * Use "3.0 (native)" source format with bzip2 compression.
194 Created debian/source/{format,options} for this.
195 * Update guideline for override change to point to BTS
196 instead of email. Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the
197 patch. Closes: #540231
198 * Include full URL to the README of the upload queue. Thanks to Simon
199 McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #540974
200 * The key protecting #debian-private is now stored on a file
201 on master.debian.org, it's no more required to search into
202 the debian-private archives. Thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
203 for the patch. Closes: #548823
204 * Update information about upload queues. Thanks to Simon McVittie
205 <smcv@debian.org> for the patches:
206 - point to official names {ftp,ssh}.upload.debian.org. Closes: #554054
207 - drop references to non-working queues. Closes: #554077
208 * Mention docbook, POD and reST as convenient formats to write new manual
209 pages. Thanks to Charles Plessy and the debian-mentors list
210 for the idea and the patch. Closes: #557298
211 * Update several sections to take into account the new source formats “3.0
212 (quilt)” and “3.0 (native)”. Closes: #561952
213 * Drop reference to “dbs” in the section about including binary files.
214 * Fix typo “transfered“ → “transferred”. Closes: #555685
215 * Fix typo “programms“ → “programs”. Closes: #560808
216 * Drop section about debmake, it has been removed of Debian since lenny.
217 * Update URL of the security tracker. Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso.
219 * Update URL of Packages-arch-specific. Closes: #553974
220 * Update section about Alioth to mention FusionForge instead of GForge.
221 Drop mention of separate cvs.debian.org it's managed by Alioth too.
223 * Document new "buildd" keyword from the PTS.
224 * Update URL explaining the "Debian Maintainer" status, it's now at
225 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer. Closes: #564414
226 * Update number of source packages. Thanks Karl Goetz. Closes: #567235
227 * Update and simplify list of architectures. Thanks Karl Goetz.
229 * Small typo fixes and clarifications/rewordings suggested by Karl Goetz.
231 * Document the notion of "team upload": it looks like an NMU but it's not
232 really one because the uploader is an implicit co-maintainer since he's
233 part of the maintenance team. Thanks to Charles Plessy for the initial
234 patch. Closes: #573110
235 * Update standards-version to 3.9.1 and add missing ${misc:Depends} in
237 * Fix debian/tocsubstvars to cope with the new way dpkg-dev handles
238 multi-lines substitution variables.
241 * Update outdated mentions, typos and tags. Closes: #578664
242 * French translation updated from the 2006 debiandoc version.
243 * Apply updated patch from Nicolas François. Closes: #257150
244 * dinstall run happens four times a day. Closes: #585161
245 * Activate Japanese package.
246 * Handle addendum if it exists.
248 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:28:03 -0400
250 developers-reference (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Fixed working of the repackaged tarballs section to avoid giving the
253 impression that it's a standard packages must comply with. Closes:
255 * Specify that bugs from removed packages must be closed in foo+rm.
257 * Change the maintainer address to debian-policy@, based on discussion
259 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No changes needed.
260 * Update copyright notices and list of authors.
262 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:56:19 +0200
264 developers-reference (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
266 * Applied patch from Justin B Rye that improves the discussion on writing
267 package descriptions. Closes: #516436.
268 * Lenny has been released, update the list of codenames. Closes: #527008.
269 * Applied patch from Paul Wise that adds a paragraph about hostile
270 upstreams. Closes: #523985.
271 * Applied patch from Charles Plessy about providing information to the
272 ftpmasters. Closes: #526410.
273 * In the section about patch systems, mention quilt (wasn not
274 mentionned before) and describe it as the recommended patch system.
275 also mention dpatch and cdbs' patch system. drop dbs. Closes: #525668.
276 * Added a note in the wanna-build section to mention
277 http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt. Closes: #516375.
278 * Clarified NMU versioning to reflect existing practices. Closes: #532945.
279 * s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section
280 about repackaged upstream tarballs.
281 * Mention the Gandi.net hosting discount in section 4.13.
282 Applied patch from Tim Retout. Closes: #538245.
283 * Reduce length of title of L10N section so that it is no longer split.
284 Applied patch from Justin B Rye. Closes: #534688.
285 * Bumped debhelper compat level to 5 (4 was deprecated)
286 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No changes needed.
287 * Added pointer to debian-project@ post about the wanna-build team.
289 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:28:04 +0200
291 developers-reference (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
298 * Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
299 The most important changes are:
300 + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
301 + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
304 + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
305 with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
306 + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
307 distinction. Closes: #464230.
308 + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
309 + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
310 * Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
311 W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
312 * Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
313 Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
315 * Update instructions on the delayed queue.
316 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
318 * Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
319 Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
321 * Improved README.contrib. Mention command to checkout the SVN
322 version. Thanks to Christine Spang for the patch.
324 * Document usertags. Thanks to Chris Lamb for the patch.
326 * Updated documentation on translation updates.
327 Thanks to Christian Perrier for the patch.
329 * Update instructions on handling of security issues.
330 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
331 Closes: #512620, #510783.
333 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:57:54 +0100
335 developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
339 * Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. Closes: #470754.
340 * linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.
341 * Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.
342 * Collaborative Maintenance: the 'global part' of debian/control
343 is the first paragraph, about the source package. Closes: #483231.
344 * debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.
345 * Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package.
347 * README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
349 * build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
352 [ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
353 * Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
354 * In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
355 release codenames in <literal>
356 * Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
357 doesn't exist anymore.
358 * Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
359 thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
360 * Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
361 and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
362 * Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
363 the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
364 fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandings
365 about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
366 * Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
367 distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
368 team before upload. Closes: #459343
369 * Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
370 * Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
371 need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
372 hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
373 on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806
374 * Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
375 pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
377 * Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
378 description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
380 * Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
381 have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
382 debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
383 * Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
384 ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
385 Thomas. Closes: #485837
387 + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
388 + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!
390 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:45:49 +0200
392 developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
396 - bump standards-version to 3.7.3 (no change)
397 - fix debian/copyright
398 - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
399 - add pdf for French version.
400 * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
401 * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
402 Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
403 * Keyring now uses RT. Closes: #428846
404 * Document -dbg-packages within BPs. Thanks, Joey Hess. Closes: #420540
405 * NMUs now also close bugs. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum. Closes: #419507
406 * Fix documentation about gender neutral. Closes: #384178
407 * Fix typo. Closes: #405453
408 * More details on how to write documentation. Thanks, Josh Triplett.
410 * Add XS-Vcs-*. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli. Closes: #391023
411 * Small brushup to debconf description. Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.
413 * Document Team-Maintainence better. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum.
415 * Add link to more removal ressources. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt,
416 Justin Pryzby. Closes: #412757, #356720
417 * Repacking source packages need to be documented in copyright.
418 Thanks, Russ Allbery. Closes: #413320
419 * Better describe version of debian native packages NMUs. Closes: #405818
420 * Source, HTML and text are now encoded in UTF-8. Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
422 * Source is now DocBook XML instead of debiandoc. Closes: #374220
425 * Add a link to enrico's excellent Debian Community Guidelines.
426 * Recommend the use of DSA's request tracker instead of mailing them.
427 * Remove reference to #debian-sf, #debian-bsd which don't exist anymore. Put
428 a reference to #debian-dpkg instead.
429 * Remove all stuff concerning non-US.
430 * Update information concerning Alioth.
431 * Update information concerning the Package Tracking System.
432 * Mention Alioth as the main resource for VCS repositories and deprecate
434 * Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.
435 * Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
437 * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields pointing to the new SVN
440 -- W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:16:40 +0000
442 developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
444 * mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
446 * fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
447 * use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
449 * better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
450 the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
451 * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
453 * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
454 Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
455 * Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
457 * Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
458 Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
459 * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
460 to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
461 * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
462 * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
463 * stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
464 Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
465 Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
466 * add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
467 * add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
468 20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
470 * section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
471 Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
472 * binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
473 Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
474 * Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
475 * Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
476 * Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
477 * pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
478 * clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
479 * more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
483 - French translation updated to version 3.3.8
485 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
487 developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
490 - adjust information about distributions with reality.
491 - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
492 - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
493 - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
494 - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
495 - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
497 - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
499 - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
501 - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
503 - non-us discontinued.
504 - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
506 - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
507 Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
508 - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
509 - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
510 - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
511 - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
512 Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
513 - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
514 - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
515 - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
516 - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
517 - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
518 - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
519 - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
520 - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
521 - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
522 - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
523 - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
525 - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
526 - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
528 - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
531 - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
533 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
535 developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
538 - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
539 - madison is on merkel.
540 - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
541 - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
542 - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
543 - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
544 - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
545 - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
547 - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
548 - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
549 - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
550 - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
551 - sync NM rules with reality.
553 - French translation updated to version 3.3.6
555 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:49 -0700
557 developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
560 - uploads to more than one dist are not possible.
561 - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213
562 - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048
563 - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464
564 - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298
565 - spelling, grammer fixes.
566 Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208
567 - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968
568 - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814
569 - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021
570 - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654
571 - add myself to uploaders.
572 - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156
573 - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845
574 - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402
575 - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961
576 - add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
577 - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
578 - add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
579 - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
580 - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
581 - updated information about testing distribution. Closes: #266649.
582 - rewrote the NMU section, and
583 + made the possible severities of "target bugs" clearer. Closes: #233088.
584 + mention QA uploads. Closes: #202416.
585 + add -B for binNMUs, and local debsign usage. Closes: #208839.
586 + warning about breaking all-packages by binNMU. Closes: #213348.
587 - add information about gpg usage. Closes: #175815.
588 - make key replacement instructions more details. Closes: #275921
589 - typo and language fixes. Thanks, Era Eriksson. Closes: #277576
590 - add hints about debconf templates from Christian Perrier.
592 - Security uploads get urgency=high
593 - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
595 - French translation updated to version 3.3.5
597 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:07:26 +0100
599 developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
602 - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
603 Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
604 - updated the mailing lists section (again)
605 - documented Alioth, somewhat
607 - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
608 - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
610 - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
611 - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
612 - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
613 - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
617 - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
619 - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
620 Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
621 Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
622 bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
625 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:09:48 -0500
627 developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
630 - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
632 - updated documentation concerning the PTS
633 - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
634 - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
636 - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
637 - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
638 section on security bugs; closes: #196516
639 - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
642 - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
644 - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
645 - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
646 - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
647 - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
648 directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
650 - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
651 it clear these are special cases
652 - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
654 - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
656 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
658 developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
661 - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
662 - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
664 - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
666 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
668 developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
671 - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
673 - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
674 - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
675 - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
677 - more improvements to package synopsis and description
678 - the synopsis formula changed to either
679 <package-name> is a <synopsis>
681 <package-name> is <synopsis>
683 <package-name> are <synopsis>
685 - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
686 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
687 - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
688 - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
689 package; closes: #187143
691 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
693 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
696 - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
697 - proofread by Philippe Batailler
699 - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
701 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
702 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
703 - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
704 architecture-independent data bundled with programs
705 - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
706 kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
707 - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
708 right places in the document, closes: #172897
709 - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
713 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
715 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
716 - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
717 - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
718 table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
719 note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
720 package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
721 allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
723 - editorial changes on material added in this version
724 - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
725 - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
726 from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
727 closes: #139957, #108416
728 - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
729 emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
731 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
733 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
736 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
738 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
739 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
740 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
741 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
743 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
744 for best practices for documentation
745 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
746 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
747 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
748 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
750 - spell-checking pass
752 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
754 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
757 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
758 descriptions" moved under there
759 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
760 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
761 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
762 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
763 the document where these tools are discussed
764 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
765 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
766 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
767 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
768 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
769 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
771 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
772 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
773 that can be fixed by DDP folks
774 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
775 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
776 - simply PS and PDF building rules
778 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
780 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
783 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
784 section and adjusted links
785 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
787 - ChangeLog attribution updates
788 - fix typos, closes: #171781
789 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
790 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
791 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
792 for debian/rules", and write an intro
793 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
794 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
795 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
796 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
797 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
798 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
799 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
800 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
801 "Internationalization"
802 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
803 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
804 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
805 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
806 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
807 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
808 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
809 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
810 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
812 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
813 rather useless and broken
814 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
815 names and the first word
816 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
817 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
818 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
820 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
821 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
822 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
824 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
826 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
829 - DDP publishing update
831 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
832 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
833 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
834 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
836 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
838 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
841 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
842 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
843 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
845 - added myself as co-author
846 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
848 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
849 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
851 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
852 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
854 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
856 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
859 - Corrected several errors with —
860 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
861 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
862 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
863 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
864 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
865 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
866 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
868 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
869 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
870 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
871 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
872 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
873 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
874 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
875 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
876 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
878 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
879 descriptions". closes: #158609
880 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
881 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
882 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
883 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
884 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
886 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
887 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
888 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
889 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
890 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
891 - updated the mailing lists section
893 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
894 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
897 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
899 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
902 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
903 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
905 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
907 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
908 Ch "The Debian Archive"
910 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
912 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
913 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
914 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
915 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
916 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
918 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
919 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
920 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
921 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
922 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
923 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
924 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
926 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
927 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
930 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
931 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
932 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
933 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
934 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
935 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
936 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
937 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
938 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
939 work-around with <...>
940 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
941 - update copyright date
942 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
943 - spell check and grammar corrections
947 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
949 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
950 recompile"; closes: #102626
951 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
952 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
953 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
954 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
955 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
957 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
958 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
959 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
961 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
963 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
964 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
965 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
966 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
967 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
968 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
969 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
970 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
971 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
973 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
975 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
977 - updated the list of available architectures.
978 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
979 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
980 of the package and nothing more.
981 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
982 any pain to the ftpmasters.
983 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
984 the use of the delayed queue.
985 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
986 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
988 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
989 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
990 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
991 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
992 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
993 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
994 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
996 - new Sec "Documentation"
997 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
998 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
999 "Being kind to porter" too
1000 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
1001 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
1002 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
1003 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
1004 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
1006 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
1007 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
1010 - update French translation
1012 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
1014 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1017 - some grammar corrections
1018 - update French translation
1020 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
1021 anymore; closes: #135559
1022 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
1024 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
1026 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
1027 that would be welcome)
1028 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
1029 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
1030 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
1031 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
1032 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
1033 - other minor wording changes
1034 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
1035 - Ch "Package uploads":
1036 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
1037 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
1038 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
1039 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
1040 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
1041 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
1042 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
1044 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
1046 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * from Martin Michlmayr
1049 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
1050 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
1051 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
1053 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
1055 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
1057 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
1059 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
1060 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
1061 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
1062 - minor build tweaks
1064 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
1065 * from Chris Tillman
1066 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
1069 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
1071 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1074 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
1076 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
1077 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
1078 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
1079 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
1080 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
1081 talking about uploading to distributions
1082 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
1083 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
1084 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
1086 - French translation updated
1088 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
1089 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
1090 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
1092 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
1094 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
1097 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
1098 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
1101 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
1103 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * fix a typo in a link
1107 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
1108 update documentation accordingly
1110 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
1111 forwarding bugs upstream
1113 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
1114 entities which should be used
1115 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
1116 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
1118 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
1120 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
1123 * French version: completely up-to-date now
1124 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
1125 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
1127 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
1130 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
1132 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
1136 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
1137 this translation needs updating
1138 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
1139 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
1140 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
1142 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
1143 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
1144 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
1146 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
1147 included yet, however
1149 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
1151 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
1155 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
1156 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
1158 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
1160 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
1162 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
1165 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
1166 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
1168 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
1170 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
1172 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
1175 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
1176 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
1177 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
1178 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
1179 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
1180 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
1181 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
1182 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
1183 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
1184 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
1185 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
1186 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
1188 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
1189 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
1190 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
1191 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
1192 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
1194 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
1196 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
1197 * update copyright notice for 2001
1198 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
1199 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
1200 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
1202 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
1204 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
1208 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
1210 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
1212 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
1214 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
1217 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
1219 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
1220 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
1221 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
1222 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
1223 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
1224 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
1225 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
1226 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
1227 could be used if necessary
1228 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
1229 mention the rsync dupload method
1230 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
1232 * other small corrections
1233 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
1234 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
1235 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
1236 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
1238 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
1240 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
1241 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
1243 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
1245 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
1247 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
1248 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
1249 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
1250 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
1252 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
1253 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
1254 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
1255 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
1256 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
1258 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1260 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
1261 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
1262 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
1263 team (closes: Bug#52906)
1264 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
1265 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
1266 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
1268 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
1269 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
1270 - added a section about the LDAP database
1271 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
1272 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
1274 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
1275 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
1277 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
1279 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
1282 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
1283 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
1285 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
1286 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
1287 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
1288 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
1289 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
1290 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
1291 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
1292 description from developers-reference.sgml
1294 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
1296 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
1299 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
1301 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
1303 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
1304 releases are available at archive.debian.org
1305 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
1306 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
1307 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
1308 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
1309 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
1310 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
1311 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
1312 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
1314 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
1315 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
1316 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
1317 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
1319 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
1320 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
1321 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
1322 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
1323 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
1324 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
1325 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
1326 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
1327 suggestion from James Troup
1328 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
1329 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
1330 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
1331 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
1334 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
1336 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
1339 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
1341 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
1343 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
1346 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
1347 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
1348 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
1349 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
1350 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
1351 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
1353 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
1355 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
1358 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
1359 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
1360 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
1361 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
1362 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
1364 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
1365 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
1367 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
1369 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
1371 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
1375 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
1376 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
1377 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
1378 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
1379 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
1381 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
1382 with intro; demoted server sections under that
1383 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
1384 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
1386 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
1387 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
1388 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
1389 a normal developer may have access.
1391 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
1393 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
1396 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
1397 step all over each other
1399 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
1401 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
1404 address for PGP key updates
1406 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
1408 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
1411 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
1412 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
1413 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
1414 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
1416 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
1418 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
1421 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
1422 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
1423 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
1424 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
1425 <keyring-maint> instead)
1426 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
1427 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
1429 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
1431 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
1432 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
1433 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
1435 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
1437 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1439 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
1440 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
1441 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
1442 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
1443 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
1444 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
1446 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
1447 tighten up the language a bit
1448 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
1449 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
1450 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
1451 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
1453 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
1454 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
1455 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
1456 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
1457 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
1458 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
1460 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
1461 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
1462 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
1463 about how to depart Debian gracefully
1464 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
1465 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
1466 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
1467 number of available packages
1468 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
1469 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
1471 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
1473 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
1478 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
1480 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * not officially released
1483 * more spelling corrections
1484 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
1486 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
1488 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * not officially released
1491 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
1492 * some PGP-centricity removed
1493 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
1494 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
1495 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
1496 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
1497 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
1498 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
1500 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
1502 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1504 * not officially released
1505 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
1506 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
1507 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
1508 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
1509 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
1510 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
1511 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
1512 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
1513 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
1514 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
1515 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
1516 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
1517 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
1518 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
1520 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
1521 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
1523 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
1525 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
1526 take a couple of weeks
1527 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
1528 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
1529 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
1530 excited about it and can't wait
1531 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
1532 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
1534 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
1535 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
1537 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
1538 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
1539 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
1541 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
1543 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1545 * move to 3-level version number:
1546 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
1547 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
1548 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
1549 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
1550 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
1553 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
1554 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
1555 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
1557 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
1559 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
1560 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
1561 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
1562 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
1563 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
1564 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
1566 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
1568 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
1569 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
1570 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
1571 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
1572 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
1573 - "The CVS server": new section added
1574 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
1576 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
1577 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
1578 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
1579 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
1580 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
1581 with respect to GPG.
1582 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
1583 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
1584 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
1585 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
1586 a canonical location?)
1587 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
1588 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
1589 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
1590 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
1592 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
1594 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
1595 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
1596 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
1597 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
1599 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
1601 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
1604 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
1605 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
1606 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
1607 them. (closes Bug#26948)
1608 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
1609 and should not be included in this Reference.
1610 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
1611 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
1612 maintainer tools only!
1613 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
1614 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
1615 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
1616 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
1617 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
1618 * Little corrections here and there.
1619 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
1620 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
1623 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
1625 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
1628 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
1629 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
1631 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
1632 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
1633 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
1634 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
1635 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
1636 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
1637 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
1638 do prior to uploading
1639 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
1640 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
1642 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
1643 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
1644 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
1645 duties with respect to bugs
1646 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
1647 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
1648 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
1650 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
1651 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
1652 * grammar and markup changes throughout
1653 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
1654 explicit what is used to build this package
1656 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
1658 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * version number and date are automatically populated now
1662 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
1663 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
1664 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
1665 * utilize the new URL tag
1666 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
1669 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
1671 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1673 * non-maintainer release
1674 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
1675 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
1676 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
1677 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
1678 text, it can't hurt you.)
1679 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
1680 reflect this packages version number
1681 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
1683 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
1685 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1689 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
1691 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1693 * New version numbering scheme:
1695 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1696 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1697 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1700 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1701 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1702 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1703 differ between the manuals.
1705 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1706 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1707 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1708 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1710 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1711 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1713 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1715 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1717 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1721 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1722 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1724 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1725 (as requested by James Troup)
1727 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1729 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1731 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1733 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1737 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1739 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1741 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1742 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1743 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1744 the non-maintainer release
1746 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1747 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1748 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1751 - Lots of typos fixed
1753 * Compressed SGML source code
1755 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1756 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1758 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1760 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1762 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1765 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1766 - Announcing package uploads
1767 * New section about Debian Mentors
1768 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1769 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1770 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1771 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1773 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1775 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1778 of our FTP server and the development process
1779 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1780 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1781 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1783 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1784 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1785 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1786 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1787 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1788 contacting the maintainer
1789 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1790 a new manual released soon)
1791 * Some minor changes
1792 * Include SGML source in package
1793 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1794 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1796 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1798 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1802 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200