1 developers-reference (3.4.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
8 * Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
9 The most important changes are:
10 + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
11 + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
14 + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
15 with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
16 + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
17 distinction. Closes: #464230.
18 + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
19 + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
20 * Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
21 W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
22 * Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
23 Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
25 * Update instructions on the delayed queue.
26 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
29 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:05:43 +0100
31 developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
35 * Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. Closes: #470754.
36 * linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.
37 * Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.
38 * Collaborative Maintenance: the 'global part' of debian/control
39 is the first paragraph, about the source package. Closes: #483231.
40 * debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.
41 * Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package.
43 * README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
45 * build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
48 [ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
49 * Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
50 * In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
51 release codenames in <literal>
52 * Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
53 doesn't exist anymore.
54 * Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
55 thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
56 * Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
57 and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
58 * Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
59 the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
60 fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandings
61 about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
62 * Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
63 distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
64 team before upload. Closes: #459343
65 * Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
66 * Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
67 need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
68 hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
69 on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806
70 * Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
71 pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
73 * Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
74 description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
76 * Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
77 have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
78 debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
79 * Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
80 ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
81 Thomas. Closes: #485837
83 + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
84 + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!
86 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:45:49 +0200
88 developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
92 - bump standards-version to 3.7.3 (no change)
93 - fix debian/copyright
94 - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
95 - add pdf for French version.
96 * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
97 * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
98 Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
99 * Keyring now uses RT. Closes: #428846
100 * Document -dbg-packages within BPs. Thanks, Joey Hess. Closes: #420540
101 * NMUs now also close bugs. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum. Closes: #419507
102 * Fix documentation about gender neutral. Closes: #384178
103 * Fix typo. Closes: #405453
104 * More details on how to write documentation. Thanks, Josh Triplett.
106 * Add XS-Vcs-*. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli. Closes: #391023
107 * Small brushup to debconf description. Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.
109 * Document Team-Maintainence better. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum.
111 * Add link to more removal ressources. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt,
112 Justin Pryzby. Closes: #412757, #356720
113 * Repacking source packages need to be documented in copyright.
114 Thanks, Russ Allbery. Closes: #413320
115 * Better describe version of debian native packages NMUs. Closes: #405818
116 * Source, HTML and text are now encoded in UTF-8. Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
118 * Source is now DocBook XML instead of debiandoc. Closes: #374220
121 * Add a link to enrico's excellent Debian Community Guidelines.
122 * Recommend the use of DSA's request tracker instead of mailing them.
123 * Remove reference to #debian-sf, #debian-bsd which don't exist anymore. Put
124 a reference to #debian-dpkg instead.
125 * Remove all stuff concerning non-US.
126 * Update information concerning Alioth.
127 * Update information concerning the Package Tracking System.
128 * Mention Alioth as the main resource for VCS repositories and deprecate
130 * Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.
131 * Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
133 * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields pointing to the new SVN
136 -- W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:16:40 +0000
138 developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
140 * mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
142 * fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
143 * use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
145 * better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
146 the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
147 * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
149 * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
150 Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
151 * Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
153 * Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
154 Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
155 * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
156 to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
157 * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
158 * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
159 * stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
160 Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
161 Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
162 * add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
163 * add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
164 20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
166 * section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
167 Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
168 * binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
169 Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
170 * Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
171 * Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
172 * Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
173 * pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
174 * clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
175 * more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
179 - French translation updated to version 3.3.8
181 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
183 developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
186 - adjust information about distributions with reality.
187 - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
188 - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
189 - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
190 - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
191 - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
193 - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
195 - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
197 - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
199 - non-us discontinued.
200 - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
202 - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
203 Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
204 - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
205 - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
206 - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
207 - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
208 Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
209 - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
210 - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
211 - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
212 - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
213 - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
214 - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
215 - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
216 - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
217 - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
218 - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
219 - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
221 - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
222 - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
224 - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
227 - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
229 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
231 developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
234 - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
235 - madison is on merkel.
236 - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
237 - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
238 - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
239 - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
240 - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
241 - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
243 - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
244 - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
245 - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
246 - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
247 - sync NM rules with reality.
249 - French translation updated to version 3.3.6
251 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:49 -0700
253 developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
256 - uploads to more than one dist are not possible.
257 - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213
258 - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048
259 - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464
260 - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298
261 - spelling, grammer fixes.
262 Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208
263 - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968
264 - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814
265 - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021
266 - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654
267 - add myself to uploaders.
268 - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156
269 - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845
270 - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402
271 - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961
272 - add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
273 - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
274 - add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
275 - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
276 - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
277 - updated information about testing distribution. Closes: #266649.
278 - rewrote the NMU section, and
279 + made the possible severities of "target bugs" clearer. Closes: #233088.
280 + mention QA uploads. Closes: #202416.
281 + add -B for binNMUs, and local debsign usage. Closes: #208839.
282 + warning about breaking all-packages by binNMU. Closes: #213348.
283 - add information about gpg usage. Closes: #175815.
284 - make key replacement instructions more details. Closes: #275921
285 - typo and language fixes. Thanks, Era Eriksson. Closes: #277576
286 - add hints about debconf templates from Christian Perrier.
288 - Security uploads get urgency=high
289 - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
291 - French translation updated to version 3.3.5
293 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:07:26 +0100
295 developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
298 - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
299 Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
300 - updated the mailing lists section (again)
301 - documented Alioth, somewhat
303 - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
304 - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
306 - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
307 - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
308 - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
309 - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
313 - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
315 - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
316 Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
317 Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
318 bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
321 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:09:48 -0500
323 developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
326 - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
328 - updated documentation concerning the PTS
329 - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
330 - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
332 - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
333 - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
334 section on security bugs; closes: #196516
335 - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
338 - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
340 - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
341 - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
342 - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
343 - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
344 directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
346 - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
347 it clear these are special cases
348 - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
350 - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
352 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
354 developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
357 - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
358 - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
360 - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
362 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
364 developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
367 - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
369 - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
370 - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
371 - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
373 - more improvements to package synopsis and description
374 - the synopsis formula changed to either
375 <package-name> is a <synopsis>
377 <package-name> is <synopsis>
379 <package-name> are <synopsis>
381 - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
382 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
383 - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
384 - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
385 package; closes: #187143
387 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
389 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
392 - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
393 - proofread by Philippe Batailler
395 - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
397 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
398 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
399 - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
400 architecture-independent data bundled with programs
401 - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
402 kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
403 - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
404 right places in the document, closes: #172897
405 - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
409 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
411 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
412 - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
413 - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
414 table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
415 note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
416 package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
417 allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
419 - editorial changes on material added in this version
420 - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
421 - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
422 from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
423 closes: #139957, #108416
424 - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
425 emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
427 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
429 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
432 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
434 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
435 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
436 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
437 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
439 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
440 for best practices for documentation
441 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
442 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
443 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
444 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
446 - spell-checking pass
448 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
450 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
453 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
454 descriptions" moved under there
455 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
456 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
457 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
458 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
459 the document where these tools are discussed
460 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
461 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
462 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
463 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
464 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
465 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
467 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
468 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
469 that can be fixed by DDP folks
470 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
471 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
472 - simply PS and PDF building rules
474 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
476 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
479 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
480 section and adjusted links
481 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
483 - ChangeLog attribution updates
484 - fix typos, closes: #171781
485 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
486 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
487 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
488 for debian/rules", and write an intro
489 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
490 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
491 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
492 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
493 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
494 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
495 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
496 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
497 "Internationalization"
498 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
499 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
500 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
501 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
502 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
503 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
504 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
505 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
506 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
508 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
509 rather useless and broken
510 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
511 names and the first word
512 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
513 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
514 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
516 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
517 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
518 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
520 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
522 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
525 - DDP publishing update
527 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
528 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
529 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
530 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
532 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
534 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
537 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
538 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
539 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
541 - added myself as co-author
542 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
544 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
545 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
547 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
548 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
550 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
552 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
555 - Corrected several errors with —
556 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
557 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
558 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
559 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
560 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
561 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
562 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
564 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
565 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
566 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
567 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
568 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
569 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
570 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
571 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
572 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
574 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
575 descriptions". closes: #158609
576 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
577 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
578 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
579 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
580 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
582 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
583 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
584 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
585 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
586 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
587 - updated the mailing lists section
589 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
590 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
593 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
595 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
598 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
599 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
601 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
603 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
604 Ch "The Debian Archive"
606 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
608 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
609 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
610 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
611 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
612 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
614 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
615 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
616 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
617 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
618 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
619 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
620 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
622 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
623 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
626 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
627 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
628 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
629 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
630 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
631 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
632 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
633 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
634 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
635 work-around with <...>
636 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
637 - update copyright date
638 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
639 - spell check and grammar corrections
643 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
645 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
646 recompile"; closes: #102626
647 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
648 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
649 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
650 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
651 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
653 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
654 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
655 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
657 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
659 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
660 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
661 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
662 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
663 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
664 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
665 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
666 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
667 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
669 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
671 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
673 - updated the list of available architectures.
674 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
675 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
676 of the package and nothing more.
677 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
678 any pain to the ftpmasters.
679 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
680 the use of the delayed queue.
681 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
682 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
684 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
685 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
686 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
687 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
688 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
689 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
690 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
692 - new Sec "Documentation"
693 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
694 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
695 "Being kind to porter" too
696 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
697 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
698 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
699 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
700 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
702 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
703 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
706 - update French translation
708 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
710 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
713 - some grammar corrections
714 - update French translation
716 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
717 anymore; closes: #135559
718 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
720 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
722 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
723 that would be welcome)
724 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
725 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
726 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
727 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
728 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
729 - other minor wording changes
730 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
731 - Ch "Package uploads":
732 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
733 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
734 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
735 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
736 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
737 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
738 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
740 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
742 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
744 * from Martin Michlmayr
745 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
746 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
747 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
749 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
751 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
753 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
755 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
756 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
757 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
760 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
762 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
765 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
767 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
770 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
772 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
773 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
774 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
775 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
776 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
777 talking about uploading to distributions
778 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
779 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
780 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
782 - French translation updated
784 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
785 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
786 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
788 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
790 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
793 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
794 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
797 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
799 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
802 * fix a typo in a link
803 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
804 update documentation accordingly
806 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
807 forwarding bugs upstream
809 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
810 entities which should be used
811 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
812 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
814 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
816 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
818 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
819 * French version: completely up-to-date now
820 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
821 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
823 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
826 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
828 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
830 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
832 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
833 this translation needs updating
834 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
835 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
836 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
838 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
839 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
840 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
842 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
843 included yet, however
845 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
847 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
849 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
851 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
852 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
854 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
856 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
858 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
860 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
861 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
862 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
864 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
866 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
868 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
871 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
872 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
873 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
874 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
875 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
876 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
877 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
878 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
879 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
880 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
881 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
882 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
884 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
885 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
886 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
887 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
888 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
890 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
892 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
893 * update copyright notice for 2001
894 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
895 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
896 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
898 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
900 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
902 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
904 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
906 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
908 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
910 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
913 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
915 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
916 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
917 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
918 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
919 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
920 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
921 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
922 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
923 could be used if necessary
924 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
925 mention the rsync dupload method
926 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
928 * other small corrections
929 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
930 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
931 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
932 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
934 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
936 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
937 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
939 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
941 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
943 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
944 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
945 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
946 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
948 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
949 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
950 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
951 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
952 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
954 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
956 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
957 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
958 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
959 team (closes: Bug#52906)
960 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
961 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
962 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
964 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
965 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
966 - added a section about the LDAP database
967 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
968 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
970 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
971 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
973 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
975 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
978 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
979 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
981 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
982 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
983 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
984 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
985 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
986 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
987 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
988 description from developers-reference.sgml
990 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
992 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
994 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
995 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
997 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
999 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
1000 releases are available at archive.debian.org
1001 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
1002 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
1003 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
1004 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
1005 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
1006 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
1007 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
1008 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
1010 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
1011 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
1012 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
1013 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
1015 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
1016 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
1017 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
1018 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
1019 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
1020 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
1021 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
1022 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
1023 suggestion from James Troup
1024 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
1025 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
1026 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
1027 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
1030 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
1032 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
1035 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
1037 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
1039 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
1042 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
1043 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
1044 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
1045 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
1046 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
1047 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
1049 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
1051 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
1054 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
1055 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
1056 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
1057 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
1058 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
1060 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
1061 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
1063 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
1065 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
1067 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
1071 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
1072 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
1073 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
1074 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
1075 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
1077 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
1078 with intro; demoted server sections under that
1079 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
1080 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
1082 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
1083 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
1084 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
1085 a normal developer may have access.
1087 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
1089 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
1092 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
1093 step all over each other
1095 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
1097 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
1100 address for PGP key updates
1102 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
1104 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
1107 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
1108 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
1109 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
1110 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
1112 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
1114 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
1117 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
1118 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
1119 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
1120 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
1121 <keyring-maint> instead)
1122 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
1123 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
1125 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
1127 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
1128 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
1129 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
1131 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
1133 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1135 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
1136 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
1137 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
1138 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
1139 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
1140 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
1142 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
1143 tighten up the language a bit
1144 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
1145 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
1146 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
1147 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
1149 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
1150 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
1151 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
1152 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
1153 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
1154 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
1156 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
1157 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
1158 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
1159 about how to depart Debian gracefully
1160 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
1161 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
1162 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
1163 number of available packages
1164 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
1165 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
1167 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
1169 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
1174 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
1176 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * not officially released
1179 * more spelling corrections
1180 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
1182 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
1184 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * not officially released
1187 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
1188 * some PGP-centricity removed
1189 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
1190 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
1191 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
1192 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
1193 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
1194 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
1196 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
1198 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1200 * not officially released
1201 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
1202 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
1203 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
1204 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
1205 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
1206 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
1207 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
1208 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
1209 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
1210 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
1211 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
1212 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
1213 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
1214 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
1216 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
1217 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
1219 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
1221 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
1222 take a couple of weeks
1223 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
1224 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
1225 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
1226 excited about it and can't wait
1227 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
1228 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
1230 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
1231 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
1233 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
1234 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
1235 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
1237 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
1239 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1241 * move to 3-level version number:
1242 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
1243 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
1244 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
1245 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
1246 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
1249 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
1250 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
1251 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
1253 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
1255 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
1256 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
1257 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
1258 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
1259 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
1260 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
1262 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
1264 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
1265 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
1266 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
1267 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
1268 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
1269 - "The CVS server": new section added
1270 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
1272 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
1273 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
1274 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
1275 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
1276 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
1277 with respect to GPG.
1278 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
1279 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
1280 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
1281 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
1282 a canonical location?)
1283 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
1284 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
1285 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
1286 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
1288 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
1290 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
1291 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
1292 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
1293 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
1295 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
1297 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
1300 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
1301 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
1302 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
1303 them. (closes Bug#26948)
1304 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
1305 and should not be included in this Reference.
1306 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
1307 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
1308 maintainer tools only!
1309 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
1310 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
1311 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
1312 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
1313 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
1314 * Little corrections here and there.
1315 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
1316 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
1319 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
1321 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
1324 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
1325 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
1327 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
1328 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
1329 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
1330 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
1331 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
1332 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
1333 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
1334 do prior to uploading
1335 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
1336 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
1338 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
1339 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
1340 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
1341 duties with respect to bugs
1342 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
1343 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
1344 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
1346 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
1347 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
1348 * grammar and markup changes throughout
1349 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
1350 explicit what is used to build this package
1352 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
1354 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * version number and date are automatically populated now
1358 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
1359 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
1360 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
1361 * utilize the new URL tag
1362 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
1365 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
1367 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1369 * non-maintainer release
1370 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
1371 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
1372 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
1373 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
1374 text, it can't hurt you.)
1375 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
1376 reflect this packages version number
1377 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
1379 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
1381 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1385 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
1387 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1389 * New version numbering scheme:
1391 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1392 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1393 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1396 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1397 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1398 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1399 differ between the manuals.
1401 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1402 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1403 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1404 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1406 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1407 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1409 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1411 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1413 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1417 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1418 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1420 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1421 (as requested by James Troup)
1423 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1425 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1427 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1429 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1433 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1435 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1437 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1438 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1439 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1440 the non-maintainer release
1442 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1443 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1444 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1447 - Lots of typos fixed
1449 * Compressed SGML source code
1451 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1452 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1454 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1456 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1458 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1461 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1462 - Announcing package uploads
1463 * New section about Debian Mentors
1464 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1465 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1466 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1467 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1469 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1471 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1474 of our FTP server and the development process
1475 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1476 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1477 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1479 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1480 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1481 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1482 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1483 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1484 contacting the maintainer
1485 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1486 a new manual released soon)
1487 * Some minor changes
1488 * Include SGML source in package
1489 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1490 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1492 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1494 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1498 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200
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