1 developers-reference (3.4.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6 * Move away po4a handling in its own directory with a single config file.
7 * Adapt Makefile and README-contrib to the current po4a tree.
8 * Upgrades to stable should be discussed using reportbug. Thanks to Don
9 Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> for the patch.
10 Acked-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> . Closes: #670362
13 * Make XeTeX backend to use xCJK package only for CJK and add tipa for
14 build dependency. (See #666569). Closes: #666578
16 -- Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:54:05 +0900
18 developers-reference (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Document some best practices for meta-packages. Extend those for
24 transitional packages. Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna
25 <dktrkranz@debian.org> (thanks!). Closes: #569219
26 * Update license pointer to correctly point to GPL-2. Closes: #643929
27 Thanks to Luca Falavigna.
28 * Update URL of Debian Mentors FAQ. Closes: #643930
29 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
30 * Refresh some release-specific information. Closes: #643931
31 Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna.
32 * Refresh some ftpmaster-related information. Closes: #643932
33 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
34 * Update minimal GPG key length to match current requirements.
35 Closes: #643933 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
36 * Update login information for rt.debian.org. Closes: #643934
37 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
38 * Drop section about yada. Its usage is highly discouraged. Closes: #643935
39 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
40 * Update best practice about unfuzzying PO file translations to recommend
41 msguntypot. Thanks to David Prévot for the patch.
42 Acked-by Christian Perrier. Closes: #655153
45 * Add doc-base file for the German translation.
46 * Typo fix, thanks to Andreas Moog. Closes: #655096
47 * Use XeTeX backend, that fix quotes in examples. Closes: #629530
48 * Build the Japanese PDF, thanks to Osamu Aoki and the maint-guide build
51 * Translation updates (all completed)
52 - Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
53 - German by Chris Leick.
54 - French by David Prévot.
56 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:36:12 -0400
58 developers-reference (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Update the NMU rules to take into account the 0-day NMU rule
62 instituted by the release managers. Closes: #625449
65 * Update my email address.
66 * Encourage the use of RT to contact the security team.
67 Patch from Thijs Kinkhorst. Closes: #610782
68 * Document the process of returning after retirement.
69 Patch from Serafeim Zanikolas. Closes: #540249
70 * Add instructions how to mark a non-free package as auto-buildable.
71 Patch from Moritz Muehlenhoff, ACKed by Andreas Barth.
74 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:52:10 +0200
76 developers-reference (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Remove part about -v for package uploads from experimental to unstable,
82 version tracking removed that requirement.
85 * Rework section on "sponsoring packages" and include a basic
86 checklist for the sponsor. Closes: #453313
87 * Update the "Debian Developer's Duties" chapter to be more explicit
88 about duties of package maintainers. Closes: #548867
89 * Update references to merkel (which is decommissionned) where
90 needed. Closes: #619990
91 Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.
92 * Many typos fixed by Chris Leick <c.leick@vollbio.de>. Closes: #623512
95 * Initial German translation.
98 * Activate German package. Closes: #623489
99 * Update French translation.
100 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. No changes needed.
101 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets.
102 * Explicitly refer to GPL-2 file in debian/copyright.
105 * Update Japanese translation.
107 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:56:46 -0400
109 developers-reference (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Document the new derivatives-bugs PTS keyword.
113 * Removed hp.debian.or.jp reference. Closes: 561597
116 * Update description of the PTS "summary" keyword. Thanks to
117 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #469154
118 * Add accent on my first name in debian/control.
119 * Use "3.0 (native)" source format with bzip2 compression.
120 Created debian/source/{format,options} for this.
121 * Update guideline for override change to point to BTS
122 instead of email. Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the
123 patch. Closes: #540231
124 * Include full URL to the README of the upload queue. Thanks to Simon
125 McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #540974
126 * The key protecting #debian-private is now stored on a file
127 on master.debian.org, it's no more required to search into
128 the debian-private archives. Thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
129 for the patch. Closes: #548823
130 * Update information about upload queues. Thanks to Simon McVittie
131 <smcv@debian.org> for the patches:
132 - point to official names {ftp,ssh}.upload.debian.org. Closes: #554054
133 - drop references to non-working queues. Closes: #554077
134 * Mention docbook, POD and reST as convenient formats to write new manual
135 pages. Thanks to Charles Plessy and the debian-mentors list
136 for the idea and the patch. Closes: #557298
137 * Update several sections to take into account the new source formats “3.0
138 (quilt)” and “3.0 (native)”. Closes: #561952
139 * Drop reference to “dbs” in the section about including binary files.
140 * Fix typo “transfered“ → “transferred”. Closes: #555685
141 * Fix typo “programms“ → “programs”. Closes: #560808
142 * Drop section about debmake, it has been removed of Debian since lenny.
143 * Update URL of the security tracker. Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso.
145 * Update URL of Packages-arch-specific. Closes: #553974
146 * Update section about Alioth to mention FusionForge instead of GForge.
147 Drop mention of separate cvs.debian.org it's managed by Alioth too.
149 * Document new "buildd" keyword from the PTS.
150 * Update URL explaining the "Debian Maintainer" status, it's now at
151 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer. Closes: #564414
152 * Update number of source packages. Thanks Karl Goetz. Closes: #567235
153 * Update and simplify list of architectures. Thanks Karl Goetz.
155 * Small typo fixes and clarifications/rewordings suggested by Karl Goetz.
157 * Document the notion of "team upload": it looks like an NMU but it's not
158 really one because the uploader is an implicit co-maintainer since he's
159 part of the maintenance team. Thanks to Charles Plessy for the initial
160 patch. Closes: #573110
161 * Update standards-version to 3.9.1 and add missing ${misc:Depends} in
163 * Fix debian/tocsubstvars to cope with the new way dpkg-dev handles
164 multi-lines substitution variables.
167 * Update outdated mentions, typos and tags. Closes: #578664
168 * French translation updated from the 2006 debiandoc version.
169 * Apply updated patch from Nicolas François. Closes: #257150
170 * dinstall run happens four times a day. Closes: #585161
171 * Activate Japanese package.
172 * Handle addendum if it exists.
174 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:28:03 -0400
176 developers-reference (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Fixed working of the repackaged tarballs section to avoid giving the
179 impression that it's a standard packages must comply with. Closes:
181 * Specify that bugs from removed packages must be closed in foo+rm.
183 * Change the maintainer address to debian-policy@, based on discussion
185 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No changes needed.
186 * Update copyright notices and list of authors.
188 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:56:19 +0200
190 developers-reference (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Applied patch from Justin B Rye that improves the discussion on writing
193 package descriptions. Closes: #516436.
194 * Lenny has been released, update the list of codenames. Closes: #527008.
195 * Applied patch from Paul Wise that adds a paragraph about hostile
196 upstreams. Closes: #523985.
197 * Applied patch from Charles Plessy about providing information to the
198 ftpmasters. Closes: #526410.
199 * In the section about patch systems, mention quilt (wasn not
200 mentionned before) and describe it as the recommended patch system.
201 also mention dpatch and cdbs' patch system. drop dbs. Closes: #525668.
202 * Added a note in the wanna-build section to mention
203 http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt. Closes: #516375.
204 * Clarified NMU versioning to reflect existing practices. Closes: #532945.
205 * s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section
206 about repackaged upstream tarballs.
207 * Mention the Gandi.net hosting discount in section 4.13.
208 Applied patch from Tim Retout. Closes: #538245.
209 * Reduce length of title of L10N section so that it is no longer split.
210 Applied patch from Justin B Rye. Closes: #534688.
211 * Bumped debhelper compat level to 5 (4 was deprecated)
212 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No changes needed.
213 * Added pointer to debian-project@ post about the wanna-build team.
215 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:28:04 +0200
217 developers-reference (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
224 * Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
225 The most important changes are:
226 + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
227 + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
230 + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
231 with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
232 + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
233 distinction. Closes: #464230.
234 + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
235 + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
236 * Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
237 W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
238 * Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
239 Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
241 * Update instructions on the delayed queue.
242 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
244 * Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
245 Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
247 * Improved README.contrib. Mention command to checkout the SVN
248 version. Thanks to Christine Spang for the patch.
250 * Document usertags. Thanks to Chris Lamb for the patch.
252 * Updated documentation on translation updates.
253 Thanks to Christian Perrier for the patch.
255 * Update instructions on handling of security issues.
256 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
257 Closes: #512620, #510783.
259 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:57:54 +0100
261 developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
265 * Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. Closes: #470754.
266 * linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.
267 * Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.
268 * Collaborative Maintenance: the 'global part' of debian/control
269 is the first paragraph, about the source package. Closes: #483231.
270 * debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.
271 * Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package.
273 * README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
275 * build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
278 [ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
279 * Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
280 * In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
281 release codenames in <literal>
282 * Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
283 doesn't exist anymore.
284 * Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
285 thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
286 * Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
287 and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
288 * Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
289 the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
290 fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandings
291 about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
292 * Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
293 distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
294 team before upload. Closes: #459343
295 * Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
296 * Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
297 need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
298 hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
299 on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806
300 * Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
301 pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
303 * Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
304 description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
306 * Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
307 have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
308 debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
309 * Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
310 ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
311 Thomas. Closes: #485837
313 + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
314 + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!
316 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:45:49 +0200
318 developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
322 - bump standards-version to 3.7.3 (no change)
323 - fix debian/copyright
324 - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
325 - add pdf for French version.
326 * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
327 * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
328 Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
329 * Keyring now uses RT. Closes: #428846
330 * Document -dbg-packages within BPs. Thanks, Joey Hess. Closes: #420540
331 * NMUs now also close bugs. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum. Closes: #419507
332 * Fix documentation about gender neutral. Closes: #384178
333 * Fix typo. Closes: #405453
334 * More details on how to write documentation. Thanks, Josh Triplett.
336 * Add XS-Vcs-*. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli. Closes: #391023
337 * Small brushup to debconf description. Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.
339 * Document Team-Maintainence better. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum.
341 * Add link to more removal ressources. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt,
342 Justin Pryzby. Closes: #412757, #356720
343 * Repacking source packages need to be documented in copyright.
344 Thanks, Russ Allbery. Closes: #413320
345 * Better describe version of debian native packages NMUs. Closes: #405818
346 * Source, HTML and text are now encoded in UTF-8. Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
348 * Source is now DocBook XML instead of debiandoc. Closes: #374220
351 * Add a link to enrico's excellent Debian Community Guidelines.
352 * Recommend the use of DSA's request tracker instead of mailing them.
353 * Remove reference to #debian-sf, #debian-bsd which don't exist anymore. Put
354 a reference to #debian-dpkg instead.
355 * Remove all stuff concerning non-US.
356 * Update information concerning Alioth.
357 * Update information concerning the Package Tracking System.
358 * Mention Alioth as the main resource for VCS repositories and deprecate
360 * Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.
361 * Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
363 * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields pointing to the new SVN
366 -- W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:16:40 +0000
368 developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
370 * mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
372 * fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
373 * use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
375 * better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
376 the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
377 * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
379 * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
380 Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
381 * Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
383 * Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
384 Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
385 * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
386 to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
387 * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
388 * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
389 * stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
390 Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
391 Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
392 * add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
393 * add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
394 20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
396 * section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
397 Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
398 * binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
399 Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
400 * Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
401 * Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
402 * Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
403 * pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
404 * clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
405 * more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
409 - French translation updated to version 3.3.8
411 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
413 developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
416 - adjust information about distributions with reality.
417 - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
418 - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
419 - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
420 - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
421 - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
423 - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
425 - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
427 - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
429 - non-us discontinued.
430 - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
432 - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
433 Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
434 - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
435 - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
436 - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
437 - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
438 Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
439 - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
440 - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
441 - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
442 - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
443 - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
444 - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
445 - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
446 - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
447 - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
448 - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
449 - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
451 - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
452 - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
454 - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
457 - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
459 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
461 developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
464 - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
465 - madison is on merkel.
466 - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
467 - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
468 - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
469 - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
470 - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
471 - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
473 - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
474 - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
475 - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
476 - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
477 - sync NM rules with reality.
479 - French translation updated to version 3.3.6
481 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:49 -0700
483 developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
486 - uploads to more than one dist are not possible.
487 - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213
488 - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048
489 - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464
490 - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298
491 - spelling, grammer fixes.
492 Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208
493 - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968
494 - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814
495 - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021
496 - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654
497 - add myself to uploaders.
498 - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156
499 - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845
500 - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402
501 - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961
502 - add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
503 - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
504 - add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
505 - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
506 - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
507 - updated information about testing distribution. Closes: #266649.
508 - rewrote the NMU section, and
509 + made the possible severities of "target bugs" clearer. Closes: #233088.
510 + mention QA uploads. Closes: #202416.
511 + add -B for binNMUs, and local debsign usage. Closes: #208839.
512 + warning about breaking all-packages by binNMU. Closes: #213348.
513 - add information about gpg usage. Closes: #175815.
514 - make key replacement instructions more details. Closes: #275921
515 - typo and language fixes. Thanks, Era Eriksson. Closes: #277576
516 - add hints about debconf templates from Christian Perrier.
518 - Security uploads get urgency=high
519 - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
521 - French translation updated to version 3.3.5
523 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:07:26 +0100
525 developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
528 - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
529 Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
530 - updated the mailing lists section (again)
531 - documented Alioth, somewhat
533 - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
534 - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
536 - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
537 - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
538 - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
539 - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
543 - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
545 - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
546 Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
547 Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
548 bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
551 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:09:48 -0500
553 developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
556 - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
558 - updated documentation concerning the PTS
559 - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
560 - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
562 - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
563 - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
564 section on security bugs; closes: #196516
565 - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
568 - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
570 - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
571 - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
572 - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
573 - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
574 directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
576 - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
577 it clear these are special cases
578 - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
580 - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
582 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
584 developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
587 - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
588 - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
590 - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
592 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
594 developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
597 - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
599 - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
600 - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
601 - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
603 - more improvements to package synopsis and description
604 - the synopsis formula changed to either
605 <package-name> is a <synopsis>
607 <package-name> is <synopsis>
609 <package-name> are <synopsis>
611 - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
612 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
613 - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
614 - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
615 package; closes: #187143
617 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
619 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
622 - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
623 - proofread by Philippe Batailler
625 - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
627 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
628 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
629 - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
630 architecture-independent data bundled with programs
631 - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
632 kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
633 - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
634 right places in the document, closes: #172897
635 - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
639 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
641 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
642 - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
643 - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
644 table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
645 note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
646 package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
647 allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
649 - editorial changes on material added in this version
650 - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
651 - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
652 from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
653 closes: #139957, #108416
654 - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
655 emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
657 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
659 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
662 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
664 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
665 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
666 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
667 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
669 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
670 for best practices for documentation
671 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
672 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
673 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
674 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
676 - spell-checking pass
678 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
680 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
683 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
684 descriptions" moved under there
685 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
686 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
687 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
688 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
689 the document where these tools are discussed
690 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
691 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
692 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
693 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
694 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
695 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
697 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
698 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
699 that can be fixed by DDP folks
700 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
701 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
702 - simply PS and PDF building rules
704 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
706 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
709 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
710 section and adjusted links
711 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
713 - ChangeLog attribution updates
714 - fix typos, closes: #171781
715 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
716 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
717 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
718 for debian/rules", and write an intro
719 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
720 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
721 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
722 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
723 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
724 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
725 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
726 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
727 "Internationalization"
728 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
729 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
730 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
731 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
732 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
733 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
734 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
735 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
736 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
738 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
739 rather useless and broken
740 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
741 names and the first word
742 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
743 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
744 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
746 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
747 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
748 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
750 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
752 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
755 - DDP publishing update
757 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
758 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
759 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
760 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
762 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
764 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
767 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
768 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
769 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
771 - added myself as co-author
772 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
774 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
775 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
777 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
778 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
780 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
782 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
785 - Corrected several errors with —
786 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
787 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
788 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
789 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
790 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
791 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
792 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
794 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
795 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
796 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
797 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
798 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
799 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
800 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
801 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
802 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
804 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
805 descriptions". closes: #158609
806 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
807 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
808 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
809 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
810 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
812 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
813 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
814 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
815 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
816 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
817 - updated the mailing lists section
819 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
820 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
823 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
825 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
828 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
829 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
831 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
833 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
834 Ch "The Debian Archive"
836 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
838 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
839 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
840 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
841 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
842 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
844 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
845 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
846 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
847 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
848 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
849 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
850 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
852 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
853 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
856 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
857 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
858 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
859 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
860 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
861 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
862 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
863 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
864 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
865 work-around with <...>
866 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
867 - update copyright date
868 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
869 - spell check and grammar corrections
873 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
875 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
876 recompile"; closes: #102626
877 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
878 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
879 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
880 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
881 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
883 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
884 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
885 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
887 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
889 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
890 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
891 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
892 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
893 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
894 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
895 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
896 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
897 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
899 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
901 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
903 - updated the list of available architectures.
904 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
905 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
906 of the package and nothing more.
907 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
908 any pain to the ftpmasters.
909 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
910 the use of the delayed queue.
911 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
912 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
914 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
915 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
916 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
917 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
918 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
919 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
920 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
922 - new Sec "Documentation"
923 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
924 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
925 "Being kind to porter" too
926 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
927 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
928 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
929 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
930 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
932 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
933 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
936 - update French translation
938 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
940 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
943 - some grammar corrections
944 - update French translation
946 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
947 anymore; closes: #135559
948 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
950 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
952 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
953 that would be welcome)
954 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
955 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
956 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
957 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
958 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
959 - other minor wording changes
960 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
961 - Ch "Package uploads":
962 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
963 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
964 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
965 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
966 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
967 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
968 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
970 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
972 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
974 * from Martin Michlmayr
975 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
976 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
977 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
979 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
981 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
983 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
985 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
986 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
987 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
990 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
992 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
995 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
997 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1000 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
1002 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
1003 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
1004 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
1005 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
1006 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
1007 talking about uploading to distributions
1008 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
1009 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
1010 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
1012 - French translation updated
1014 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
1015 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
1016 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
1018 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
1020 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
1023 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
1024 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
1027 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
1029 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * fix a typo in a link
1033 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
1034 update documentation accordingly
1036 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
1037 forwarding bugs upstream
1039 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
1040 entities which should be used
1041 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
1042 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
1044 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
1046 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
1049 * French version: completely up-to-date now
1050 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
1051 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
1053 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
1056 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
1058 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
1062 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
1063 this translation needs updating
1064 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
1065 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
1066 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
1068 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
1069 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
1070 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
1072 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
1073 included yet, however
1075 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
1077 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
1081 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
1082 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
1084 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
1086 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
1088 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
1091 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
1092 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
1094 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
1096 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
1098 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
1101 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
1102 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
1103 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
1104 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
1105 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
1106 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
1107 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
1108 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
1109 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
1110 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
1111 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
1112 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
1114 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
1115 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
1116 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
1117 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
1118 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
1120 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
1122 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
1123 * update copyright notice for 2001
1124 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
1125 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
1126 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
1128 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
1130 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
1134 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
1136 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
1138 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
1140 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
1143 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
1145 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
1146 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
1147 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
1148 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
1149 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
1150 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
1151 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
1152 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
1153 could be used if necessary
1154 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
1155 mention the rsync dupload method
1156 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
1158 * other small corrections
1159 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
1160 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
1161 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
1162 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
1164 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
1166 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
1167 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
1169 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
1171 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
1173 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
1174 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
1175 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
1176 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
1178 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
1179 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
1180 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
1181 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
1182 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
1184 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1186 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
1187 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
1188 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
1189 team (closes: Bug#52906)
1190 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
1191 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
1192 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
1194 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
1195 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
1196 - added a section about the LDAP database
1197 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
1198 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
1200 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
1201 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
1203 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
1205 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
1208 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
1209 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
1211 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
1212 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
1213 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
1214 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
1215 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
1216 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
1217 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
1218 description from developers-reference.sgml
1220 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
1222 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
1225 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
1227 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
1229 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
1230 releases are available at archive.debian.org
1231 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
1232 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
1233 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
1234 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
1235 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
1236 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
1237 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
1238 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
1240 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
1241 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
1242 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
1243 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
1245 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
1246 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
1247 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
1248 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
1249 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
1250 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
1251 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
1252 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
1253 suggestion from James Troup
1254 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
1255 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
1256 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
1257 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
1260 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
1262 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
1265 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
1267 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
1269 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
1272 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
1273 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
1274 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
1275 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
1276 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
1277 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
1279 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
1281 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
1284 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
1285 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
1286 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
1287 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
1288 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
1290 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
1291 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
1293 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
1295 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
1297 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
1301 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
1302 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
1303 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
1304 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
1305 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
1307 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
1308 with intro; demoted server sections under that
1309 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
1310 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
1312 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
1313 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
1314 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
1315 a normal developer may have access.
1317 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
1319 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
1322 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
1323 step all over each other
1325 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
1327 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
1330 address for PGP key updates
1332 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
1334 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
1337 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
1338 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
1339 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
1340 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
1342 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
1344 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
1347 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
1348 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
1349 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
1350 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
1351 <keyring-maint> instead)
1352 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
1353 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
1355 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
1357 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
1358 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
1359 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
1361 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
1363 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1365 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
1366 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
1367 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
1368 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
1369 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
1370 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
1372 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
1373 tighten up the language a bit
1374 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
1375 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
1376 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
1377 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
1379 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
1380 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
1381 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
1382 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
1383 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
1384 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
1386 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
1387 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
1388 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
1389 about how to depart Debian gracefully
1390 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
1391 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
1392 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
1393 number of available packages
1394 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
1395 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
1397 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
1399 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
1404 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
1406 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * not officially released
1409 * more spelling corrections
1410 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
1412 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
1414 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * not officially released
1417 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
1418 * some PGP-centricity removed
1419 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
1420 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
1421 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
1422 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
1423 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
1424 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
1426 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
1428 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1430 * not officially released
1431 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
1432 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
1433 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
1434 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
1435 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
1436 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
1437 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
1438 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
1439 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
1440 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
1441 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
1442 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
1443 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
1444 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
1446 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
1447 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
1449 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
1451 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
1452 take a couple of weeks
1453 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
1454 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
1455 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
1456 excited about it and can't wait
1457 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
1458 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
1460 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
1461 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
1463 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
1464 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
1465 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
1467 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
1469 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1471 * move to 3-level version number:
1472 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
1473 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
1474 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
1475 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
1476 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
1479 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
1480 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
1481 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
1483 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
1485 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
1486 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
1487 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
1488 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
1489 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
1490 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
1492 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
1494 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
1495 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
1496 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
1497 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
1498 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
1499 - "The CVS server": new section added
1500 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
1502 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
1503 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
1504 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
1505 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
1506 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
1507 with respect to GPG.
1508 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
1509 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
1510 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
1511 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
1512 a canonical location?)
1513 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
1514 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
1515 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
1516 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
1518 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
1520 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
1521 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
1522 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
1523 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
1525 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
1527 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
1530 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
1531 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
1532 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
1533 them. (closes Bug#26948)
1534 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
1535 and should not be included in this Reference.
1536 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
1537 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
1538 maintainer tools only!
1539 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
1540 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
1541 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
1542 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
1543 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
1544 * Little corrections here and there.
1545 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
1546 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
1549 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
1551 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
1554 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
1555 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
1557 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
1558 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
1559 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
1560 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
1561 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
1562 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
1563 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
1564 do prior to uploading
1565 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
1566 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
1568 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
1569 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
1570 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
1571 duties with respect to bugs
1572 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
1573 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
1574 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
1576 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
1577 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
1578 * grammar and markup changes throughout
1579 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
1580 explicit what is used to build this package
1582 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
1584 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * version number and date are automatically populated now
1588 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
1589 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
1590 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
1591 * utilize the new URL tag
1592 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
1595 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
1597 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1599 * non-maintainer release
1600 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
1601 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
1602 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
1603 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
1604 text, it can't hurt you.)
1605 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
1606 reflect this packages version number
1607 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
1609 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
1611 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1615 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
1617 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1619 * New version numbering scheme:
1621 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1622 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1623 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1626 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1627 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1628 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1629 differ between the manuals.
1631 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1632 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1633 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1634 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1636 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1637 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1639 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1641 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1643 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1647 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1648 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1650 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1651 (as requested by James Troup)
1653 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1655 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1657 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1659 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1663 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1665 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1667 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1668 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1669 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1670 the non-maintainer release
1672 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1673 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1674 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1677 - Lots of typos fixed
1679 * Compressed SGML source code
1681 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1682 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1684 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1686 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1688 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1691 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1692 - Announcing package uploads
1693 * New section about Debian Mentors
1694 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1695 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1696 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1697 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1699 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1701 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1704 of our FTP server and the development process
1705 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1706 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1707 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1709 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1710 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1711 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1712 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1713 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1714 contacting the maintainer
1715 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1716 a new manual released soon)
1717 * Some minor changes
1718 * Include SGML source in package
1719 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1720 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1722 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1724 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1728 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200
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