1 developers-reference (3.4.12) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
3 * Update preferred contact method for the security team. Closes: #738607
4 Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso for the patch.
6 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:25:00 +0100
8 developers-reference (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
13 * Update versioning advice for security uploads as well. Closes: #709218
14 Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso for the patch.
16 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:06:40 +0200
18 developers-reference (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Add recommendations to re-introduce packages. Thanks to Paul Wise for the
24 patch. Closes: #685039
25 * Drop paragraph about vanilla debian/rules files which mainly points to a
26 no-longer working link.
29 * Introduce epub support. Closes: #652044
32 * Update versioning advice for uploads to stable/testing. Closes: #685646
33 * Advise to use codename-security instead of stable-security.
36 [ Translation updates ]
37 * French by David Prévot.
38 * Japanese by victory.
39 * German by Chris Leick.
43 - Update Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no change required).
44 - Use canonical URL for Vcs-Svn.
46 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Thu, 16 May 2013 18:35:23 -0400
48 developers-reference (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Clarify that removals from testing are possible. Closes: #678710
54 Thanks to Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com> for the patch.
55 * Reword various parts to be gender-neutral. Closes: #678712
56 Thanks to Per Andersson and Steve Langasek for the patch.
57 * Recommend usage of gender-neutral formulations in README-contrib.
58 * Fix Vcs-Browser URL. Thanks to Charles Plessy who spotted it.
59 * Document the existence of "hints" that release managers can
60 use to tweak the conditions of testing migration. Closes: #679562
61 Thanks to Paul Gevers <paul@climbing.nl> for the patch.
63 [ Translation updates ]
64 * Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
65 * French by David Prévot.
66 * German by Chris Leick.
69 * Fix typo: Freenodes -> Freenode. Closes: #679735
71 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:34:59 -0400
73 developers-reference (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Move away po4a handling in its own directory with a single config file.
77 * Adapt Makefile and README-contrib to the current po4a tree.
78 * Upgrades to stable should be discussed using reportbug. Thanks to Don
79 Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> for the patch.
80 Acked-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> . Closes: #670362
81 * Use UTF-8 locale to prepare the text version. Closes: #658839
82 * Delayed queue goes from 0 to 15-day. Closes: #631353
85 * Make XeTeX backend to use xCJK package only for CJK and add tipa for
86 build dependency. (See #666569). Closes: #666578
88 * Translation updates (complete)
89 - French by David Prévot.
90 - German by Chris Leick.
93 * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.3 (no change required).
94 * Switch to xz compression for source.
95 * Clean up debian/rules by using dh (with compat level 8).
96 * Drop build-dependency on latex-cjk-xcjk since xeCJK.sty is provided
97 by texlive-xetex directly.
99 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:57:23 +0200
101 developers-reference (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Document some best practices for meta-packages. Extend those for
107 transitional packages. Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna
108 <dktrkranz@debian.org> (thanks!). Closes: #569219
109 * Update license pointer to correctly point to GPL-2. Closes: #643929
110 Thanks to Luca Falavigna.
111 * Update URL of Debian Mentors FAQ. Closes: #643930
112 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
113 * Refresh some release-specific information. Closes: #643931
114 Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna.
115 * Refresh some ftpmaster-related information. Closes: #643932
116 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
117 * Update minimal GPG key length to match current requirements.
118 Closes: #643933 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
119 * Update login information for rt.debian.org. Closes: #643934
120 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
121 * Drop section about yada. Its usage is highly discouraged. Closes: #643935
122 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
123 * Update best practice about unfuzzying PO file translations to recommend
124 msguntypot. Thanks to David Prévot for the patch.
125 Acked-by Christian Perrier. Closes: #655153
128 * Add doc-base file for the German translation.
129 * Typo fix, thanks to Andreas Moog. Closes: #655096
130 * Use XeTeX backend, that fix quotes in examples. Closes: #629530
131 * Build the Japanese PDF, thanks to Osamu Aoki and the maint-guide build
134 * Translation updates (all completed)
135 - Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
136 - German by Chris Leick.
137 - French by David Prévot.
139 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:36:12 -0400
141 developers-reference (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Update the NMU rules to take into account the 0-day NMU rule
145 instituted by the release managers. Closes: #625449
148 * Update my email address.
149 * Encourage the use of RT to contact the security team.
150 Patch from Thijs Kinkhorst. Closes: #610782
151 * Document the process of returning after retirement.
152 Patch from Serafeim Zanikolas. Closes: #540249
153 * Add instructions how to mark a non-free package as auto-buildable.
154 Patch from Moritz Muehlenhoff, ACKed by Andreas Barth.
157 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:52:10 +0200
159 developers-reference (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Remove part about -v for package uploads from experimental to unstable,
165 version tracking removed that requirement.
168 * Rework section on "sponsoring packages" and include a basic
169 checklist for the sponsor. Closes: #453313
170 * Update the "Debian Developer's Duties" chapter to be more explicit
171 about duties of package maintainers. Closes: #548867
172 * Update references to merkel (which is decommissionned) where
173 needed. Closes: #619990
174 Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.
175 * Many typos fixed by Chris Leick <c.leick@vollbio.de>. Closes: #623512
178 * Initial German translation.
181 * Activate German package. Closes: #623489
182 * Update French translation.
183 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. No changes needed.
184 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets.
185 * Explicitly refer to GPL-2 file in debian/copyright.
188 * Update Japanese translation.
190 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:56:46 -0400
192 developers-reference (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Document the new derivatives-bugs PTS keyword.
196 * Removed hp.debian.or.jp reference. Closes: 561597
199 * Update description of the PTS "summary" keyword. Thanks to
200 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #469154
201 * Add accent on my first name in debian/control.
202 * Use "3.0 (native)" source format with bzip2 compression.
203 Created debian/source/{format,options} for this.
204 * Update guideline for override change to point to BTS
205 instead of email. Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the
206 patch. Closes: #540231
207 * Include full URL to the README of the upload queue. Thanks to Simon
208 McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #540974
209 * The key protecting #debian-private is now stored on a file
210 on master.debian.org, it's no more required to search into
211 the debian-private archives. Thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
212 for the patch. Closes: #548823
213 * Update information about upload queues. Thanks to Simon McVittie
214 <smcv@debian.org> for the patches:
215 - point to official names {ftp,ssh}.upload.debian.org. Closes: #554054
216 - drop references to non-working queues. Closes: #554077
217 * Mention docbook, POD and reST as convenient formats to write new manual
218 pages. Thanks to Charles Plessy and the debian-mentors list
219 for the idea and the patch. Closes: #557298
220 * Update several sections to take into account the new source formats “3.0
221 (quilt)” and “3.0 (native)”. Closes: #561952
222 * Drop reference to “dbs” in the section about including binary files.
223 * Fix typo “transfered“ → “transferred”. Closes: #555685
224 * Fix typo “programms“ → “programs”. Closes: #560808
225 * Drop section about debmake, it has been removed of Debian since lenny.
226 * Update URL of the security tracker. Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso.
228 * Update URL of Packages-arch-specific. Closes: #553974
229 * Update section about Alioth to mention FusionForge instead of GForge.
230 Drop mention of separate cvs.debian.org it's managed by Alioth too.
232 * Document new "buildd" keyword from the PTS.
233 * Update URL explaining the "Debian Maintainer" status, it's now at
234 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer. Closes: #564414
235 * Update number of source packages. Thanks Karl Goetz. Closes: #567235
236 * Update and simplify list of architectures. Thanks Karl Goetz.
238 * Small typo fixes and clarifications/rewordings suggested by Karl Goetz.
240 * Document the notion of "team upload": it looks like an NMU but it's not
241 really one because the uploader is an implicit co-maintainer since he's
242 part of the maintenance team. Thanks to Charles Plessy for the initial
243 patch. Closes: #573110
244 * Update standards-version to 3.9.1 and add missing ${misc:Depends} in
246 * Fix debian/tocsubstvars to cope with the new way dpkg-dev handles
247 multi-lines substitution variables.
250 * Update outdated mentions, typos and tags. Closes: #578664
251 * French translation updated from the 2006 debiandoc version.
252 * Apply updated patch from Nicolas François. Closes: #257150
253 * dinstall run happens four times a day. Closes: #585161
254 * Activate Japanese package.
255 * Handle addendum if it exists.
257 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:28:03 -0400
259 developers-reference (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Fixed working of the repackaged tarballs section to avoid giving the
262 impression that it's a standard packages must comply with. Closes:
264 * Specify that bugs from removed packages must be closed in foo+rm.
266 * Change the maintainer address to debian-policy@, based on discussion
268 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No changes needed.
269 * Update copyright notices and list of authors.
271 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:56:19 +0200
273 developers-reference (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Applied patch from Justin B Rye that improves the discussion on writing
276 package descriptions. Closes: #516436.
277 * Lenny has been released, update the list of codenames. Closes: #527008.
278 * Applied patch from Paul Wise that adds a paragraph about hostile
279 upstreams. Closes: #523985.
280 * Applied patch from Charles Plessy about providing information to the
281 ftpmasters. Closes: #526410.
282 * In the section about patch systems, mention quilt (wasn not
283 mentionned before) and describe it as the recommended patch system.
284 also mention dpatch and cdbs' patch system. drop dbs. Closes: #525668.
285 * Added a note in the wanna-build section to mention
286 http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt. Closes: #516375.
287 * Clarified NMU versioning to reflect existing practices. Closes: #532945.
288 * s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section
289 about repackaged upstream tarballs.
290 * Mention the Gandi.net hosting discount in section 4.13.
291 Applied patch from Tim Retout. Closes: #538245.
292 * Reduce length of title of L10N section so that it is no longer split.
293 Applied patch from Justin B Rye. Closes: #534688.
294 * Bumped debhelper compat level to 5 (4 was deprecated)
295 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No changes needed.
296 * Added pointer to debian-project@ post about the wanna-build team.
298 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:28:04 +0200
300 developers-reference (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
307 * Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
308 The most important changes are:
309 + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
310 + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
313 + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
314 with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
315 + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
316 distinction. Closes: #464230.
317 + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
318 + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
319 * Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
320 W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
321 * Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
322 Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
324 * Update instructions on the delayed queue.
325 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
327 * Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
328 Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
330 * Improved README.contrib. Mention command to checkout the SVN
331 version. Thanks to Christine Spang for the patch.
333 * Document usertags. Thanks to Chris Lamb for the patch.
335 * Updated documentation on translation updates.
336 Thanks to Christian Perrier for the patch.
338 * Update instructions on handling of security issues.
339 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
340 Closes: #512620, #510783.
342 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:57:54 +0100
344 developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
348 * Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. Closes: #470754.
349 * linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.
350 * Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.
351 * Collaborative Maintenance: the 'global part' of debian/control
352 is the first paragraph, about the source package. Closes: #483231.
353 * debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.
354 * Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package.
356 * README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
358 * build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
361 [ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
362 * Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
363 * In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
364 release codenames in <literal>
365 * Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
366 doesn't exist anymore.
367 * Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
368 thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
369 * Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
370 and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
371 * Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
372 the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
373 fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandings
374 about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
375 * Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
376 distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
377 team before upload. Closes: #459343
378 * Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
379 * Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
380 need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
381 hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
382 on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806
383 * Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
384 pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
386 * Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
387 description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
389 * Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
390 have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
391 debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
392 * Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
393 ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
394 Thomas. Closes: #485837
396 + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
397 + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!
399 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:45:49 +0200
401 developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
405 - bump standards-version to 3.7.3 (no change)
406 - fix debian/copyright
407 - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
408 - add pdf for French version.
409 * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
410 * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
411 Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
412 * Keyring now uses RT. Closes: #428846
413 * Document -dbg-packages within BPs. Thanks, Joey Hess. Closes: #420540
414 * NMUs now also close bugs. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum. Closes: #419507
415 * Fix documentation about gender neutral. Closes: #384178
416 * Fix typo. Closes: #405453
417 * More details on how to write documentation. Thanks, Josh Triplett.
419 * Add XS-Vcs-*. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli. Closes: #391023
420 * Small brushup to debconf description. Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.
422 * Document Team-Maintainence better. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum.
424 * Add link to more removal ressources. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt,
425 Justin Pryzby. Closes: #412757, #356720
426 * Repacking source packages need to be documented in copyright.
427 Thanks, Russ Allbery. Closes: #413320
428 * Better describe version of debian native packages NMUs. Closes: #405818
429 * Source, HTML and text are now encoded in UTF-8. Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
431 * Source is now DocBook XML instead of debiandoc. Closes: #374220
434 * Add a link to enrico's excellent Debian Community Guidelines.
435 * Recommend the use of DSA's request tracker instead of mailing them.
436 * Remove reference to #debian-sf, #debian-bsd which don't exist anymore. Put
437 a reference to #debian-dpkg instead.
438 * Remove all stuff concerning non-US.
439 * Update information concerning Alioth.
440 * Update information concerning the Package Tracking System.
441 * Mention Alioth as the main resource for VCS repositories and deprecate
443 * Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.
444 * Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
446 * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields pointing to the new SVN
449 -- W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:16:40 +0000
451 developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
453 * mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
455 * fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
456 * use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
458 * better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
459 the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
460 * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
462 * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
463 Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
464 * Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
466 * Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
467 Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
468 * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
469 to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
470 * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
471 * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
472 * stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
473 Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
474 Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
475 * add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
476 * add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
477 20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
479 * section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
480 Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
481 * binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
482 Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
483 * Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
484 * Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
485 * Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
486 * pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
487 * clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
488 * more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
492 - French translation updated to version 3.3.8
494 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
496 developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
499 - adjust information about distributions with reality.
500 - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
501 - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
502 - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
503 - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
504 - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
506 - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
508 - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
510 - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
512 - non-us discontinued.
513 - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
515 - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
516 Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
517 - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
518 - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
519 - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
520 - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
521 Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
522 - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
523 - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
524 - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
525 - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
526 - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
527 - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
528 - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
529 - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
530 - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
531 - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
532 - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
534 - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
535 - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
537 - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
540 - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
542 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
544 developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
547 - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
548 - madison is on merkel.
549 - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
550 - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
551 - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
552 - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
553 - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
554 - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
556 - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
557 - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
558 - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
559 - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
560 - sync NM rules with reality.
562 - French translation updated to version 3.3.6
564 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:49 -0700
566 developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
569 - uploads to more than one dist are not possible.
570 - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213
571 - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048
572 - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464
573 - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298
574 - spelling, grammer fixes.
575 Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208
576 - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968
577 - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814
578 - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021
579 - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654
580 - add myself to uploaders.
581 - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156
582 - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845
583 - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402
584 - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961
585 - add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
586 - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
587 - add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
588 - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
589 - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
590 - updated information about testing distribution. Closes: #266649.
591 - rewrote the NMU section, and
592 + made the possible severities of "target bugs" clearer. Closes: #233088.
593 + mention QA uploads. Closes: #202416.
594 + add -B for binNMUs, and local debsign usage. Closes: #208839.
595 + warning about breaking all-packages by binNMU. Closes: #213348.
596 - add information about gpg usage. Closes: #175815.
597 - make key replacement instructions more details. Closes: #275921
598 - typo and language fixes. Thanks, Era Eriksson. Closes: #277576
599 - add hints about debconf templates from Christian Perrier.
601 - Security uploads get urgency=high
602 - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
604 - French translation updated to version 3.3.5
606 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:07:26 +0100
608 developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
611 - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
612 Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
613 - updated the mailing lists section (again)
614 - documented Alioth, somewhat
616 - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
617 - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
619 - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
620 - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
621 - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
622 - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
626 - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
628 - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
629 Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
630 Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
631 bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
634 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:09:48 -0500
636 developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
639 - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
641 - updated documentation concerning the PTS
642 - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
643 - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
645 - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
646 - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
647 section on security bugs; closes: #196516
648 - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
651 - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
653 - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
654 - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
655 - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
656 - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
657 directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
659 - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
660 it clear these are special cases
661 - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
663 - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
665 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
667 developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
670 - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
671 - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
673 - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
675 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
677 developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
680 - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
682 - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
683 - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
684 - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
686 - more improvements to package synopsis and description
687 - the synopsis formula changed to either
688 <package-name> is a <synopsis>
690 <package-name> is <synopsis>
692 <package-name> are <synopsis>
694 - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
695 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
696 - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
697 - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
698 package; closes: #187143
700 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
702 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
705 - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
706 - proofread by Philippe Batailler
708 - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
710 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
711 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
712 - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
713 architecture-independent data bundled with programs
714 - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
715 kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
716 - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
717 right places in the document, closes: #172897
718 - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
722 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
724 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
725 - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
726 - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
727 table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
728 note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
729 package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
730 allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
732 - editorial changes on material added in this version
733 - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
734 - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
735 from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
736 closes: #139957, #108416
737 - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
738 emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
740 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
742 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
745 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
747 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
748 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
749 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
750 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
752 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
753 for best practices for documentation
754 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
755 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
756 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
757 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
759 - spell-checking pass
761 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
763 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
766 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
767 descriptions" moved under there
768 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
769 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
770 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
771 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
772 the document where these tools are discussed
773 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
774 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
775 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
776 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
777 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
778 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
780 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
781 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
782 that can be fixed by DDP folks
783 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
784 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
785 - simply PS and PDF building rules
787 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
789 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
792 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
793 section and adjusted links
794 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
796 - ChangeLog attribution updates
797 - fix typos, closes: #171781
798 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
799 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
800 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
801 for debian/rules", and write an intro
802 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
803 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
804 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
805 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
806 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
807 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
808 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
809 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
810 "Internationalization"
811 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
812 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
813 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
814 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
815 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
816 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
817 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
818 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
819 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
821 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
822 rather useless and broken
823 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
824 names and the first word
825 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
826 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
827 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
829 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
830 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
831 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
833 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
835 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
838 - DDP publishing update
840 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
841 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
842 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
843 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
845 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
847 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
850 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
851 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
852 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
854 - added myself as co-author
855 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
857 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
858 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
860 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
861 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
863 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
865 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
868 - Corrected several errors with —
869 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
870 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
871 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
872 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
873 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
874 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
875 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
877 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
878 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
879 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
880 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
881 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
882 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
883 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
884 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
885 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
887 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
888 descriptions". closes: #158609
889 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
890 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
891 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
892 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
893 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
895 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
896 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
897 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
898 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
899 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
900 - updated the mailing lists section
902 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
903 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
906 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
908 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
911 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
912 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
914 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
916 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
917 Ch "The Debian Archive"
919 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
921 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
922 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
923 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
924 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
925 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
927 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
928 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
929 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
930 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
931 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
932 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
933 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
935 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
936 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
939 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
940 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
941 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
942 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
943 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
944 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
945 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
946 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
947 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
948 work-around with <...>
949 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
950 - update copyright date
951 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
952 - spell check and grammar corrections
956 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
958 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
959 recompile"; closes: #102626
960 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
961 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
962 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
963 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
964 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
966 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
967 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
968 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
970 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
972 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
973 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
974 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
975 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
976 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
977 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
978 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
979 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
980 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
982 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
984 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
986 - updated the list of available architectures.
987 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
988 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
989 of the package and nothing more.
990 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
991 any pain to the ftpmasters.
992 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
993 the use of the delayed queue.
994 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
995 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
997 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
998 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
999 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
1000 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
1001 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
1002 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
1003 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
1005 - new Sec "Documentation"
1006 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
1007 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
1008 "Being kind to porter" too
1009 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
1010 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
1011 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
1012 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
1013 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
1015 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
1016 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
1019 - update French translation
1021 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
1023 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1026 - some grammar corrections
1027 - update French translation
1029 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
1030 anymore; closes: #135559
1031 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
1033 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
1035 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
1036 that would be welcome)
1037 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
1038 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
1039 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
1040 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
1041 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
1042 - other minor wording changes
1043 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
1044 - Ch "Package uploads":
1045 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
1046 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
1047 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
1048 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
1049 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
1050 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
1051 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
1053 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
1055 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * from Martin Michlmayr
1058 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
1059 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
1060 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
1062 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
1064 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
1066 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
1068 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
1069 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
1070 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
1071 - minor build tweaks
1073 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
1074 * from Chris Tillman
1075 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
1078 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
1080 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1083 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
1085 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
1086 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
1087 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
1088 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
1089 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
1090 talking about uploading to distributions
1091 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
1092 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
1093 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
1095 - French translation updated
1097 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
1098 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
1099 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
1101 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
1103 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
1106 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
1107 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
1110 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
1112 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * fix a typo in a link
1116 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
1117 update documentation accordingly
1119 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
1120 forwarding bugs upstream
1122 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
1123 entities which should be used
1124 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
1125 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
1127 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
1129 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
1132 * French version: completely up-to-date now
1133 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
1134 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
1136 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
1139 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
1141 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
1145 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
1146 this translation needs updating
1147 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
1148 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
1149 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
1151 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
1152 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
1153 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
1155 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
1156 included yet, however
1158 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
1160 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
1164 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
1165 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
1167 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
1169 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
1171 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
1174 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
1175 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
1177 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
1179 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
1181 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
1184 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
1185 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
1186 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
1187 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
1188 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
1189 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
1190 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
1191 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
1192 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
1193 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
1194 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
1195 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
1197 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
1198 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
1199 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
1200 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
1201 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
1203 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
1205 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
1206 * update copyright notice for 2001
1207 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
1208 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
1209 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
1211 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
1213 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
1217 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
1219 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
1221 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
1223 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
1226 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
1228 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
1229 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
1230 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
1231 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
1232 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
1233 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
1234 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
1235 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
1236 could be used if necessary
1237 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
1238 mention the rsync dupload method
1239 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
1241 * other small corrections
1242 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
1243 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
1244 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
1245 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
1247 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
1249 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
1250 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
1252 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
1254 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
1256 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
1257 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
1258 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
1259 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
1261 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
1262 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
1263 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
1264 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
1265 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
1267 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1269 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
1270 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
1271 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
1272 team (closes: Bug#52906)
1273 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
1274 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
1275 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
1277 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
1278 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
1279 - added a section about the LDAP database
1280 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
1281 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
1283 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
1284 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
1286 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
1288 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
1291 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
1292 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
1294 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
1295 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
1296 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
1297 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
1298 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
1299 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
1300 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
1301 description from developers-reference.sgml
1303 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
1305 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
1308 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
1310 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
1312 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
1313 releases are available at archive.debian.org
1314 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
1315 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
1316 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
1317 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
1318 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
1319 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
1320 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
1321 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
1323 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
1324 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
1325 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
1326 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
1328 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
1329 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
1330 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
1331 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
1332 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
1333 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
1334 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
1335 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
1336 suggestion from James Troup
1337 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
1338 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
1339 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
1340 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
1343 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
1345 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
1348 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
1350 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
1352 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
1355 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
1356 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
1357 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
1358 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
1359 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
1360 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
1362 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
1364 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
1367 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
1368 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
1369 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
1370 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
1371 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
1373 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
1374 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
1376 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
1378 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
1380 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
1384 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
1385 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
1386 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
1387 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
1388 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
1390 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
1391 with intro; demoted server sections under that
1392 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
1393 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
1395 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
1396 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
1397 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
1398 a normal developer may have access.
1400 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
1402 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
1405 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
1406 step all over each other
1408 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
1410 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
1413 address for PGP key updates
1415 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
1417 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
1420 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
1421 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
1422 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
1423 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
1425 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
1427 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
1430 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
1431 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
1432 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
1433 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
1434 <keyring-maint> instead)
1435 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
1436 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
1438 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
1440 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
1441 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
1442 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
1444 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
1446 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1448 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
1449 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
1450 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
1451 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
1452 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
1453 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
1455 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
1456 tighten up the language a bit
1457 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
1458 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
1459 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
1460 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
1462 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
1463 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
1464 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
1465 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
1466 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
1467 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
1469 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
1470 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
1471 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
1472 about how to depart Debian gracefully
1473 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
1474 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
1475 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
1476 number of available packages
1477 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
1478 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
1480 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
1482 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
1487 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
1489 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * not officially released
1492 * more spelling corrections
1493 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
1495 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
1497 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * not officially released
1500 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
1501 * some PGP-centricity removed
1502 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
1503 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
1504 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
1505 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
1506 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
1507 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
1509 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
1511 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1513 * not officially released
1514 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
1515 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
1516 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
1517 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
1518 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
1519 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
1520 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
1521 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
1522 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
1523 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
1524 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
1525 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
1526 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
1527 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
1529 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
1530 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
1532 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
1534 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
1535 take a couple of weeks
1536 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
1537 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
1538 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
1539 excited about it and can't wait
1540 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
1541 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
1543 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
1544 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
1546 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
1547 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
1548 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
1550 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
1552 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1554 * move to 3-level version number:
1555 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
1556 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
1557 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
1558 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
1559 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
1562 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
1563 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
1564 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
1566 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
1568 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
1569 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
1570 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
1571 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
1572 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
1573 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
1575 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
1577 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
1578 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
1579 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
1580 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
1581 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
1582 - "The CVS server": new section added
1583 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
1585 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
1586 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
1587 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
1588 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
1589 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
1590 with respect to GPG.
1591 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
1592 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
1593 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
1594 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
1595 a canonical location?)
1596 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
1597 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
1598 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
1599 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
1601 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
1603 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
1604 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
1605 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
1606 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
1608 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
1610 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
1613 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
1614 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
1615 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
1616 them. (closes Bug#26948)
1617 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
1618 and should not be included in this Reference.
1619 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
1620 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
1621 maintainer tools only!
1622 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
1623 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
1624 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
1625 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
1626 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
1627 * Little corrections here and there.
1628 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
1629 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
1632 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
1634 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
1637 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
1638 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
1640 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
1641 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
1642 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
1643 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
1644 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
1645 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
1646 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
1647 do prior to uploading
1648 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
1649 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
1651 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
1652 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
1653 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
1654 duties with respect to bugs
1655 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
1656 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
1657 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
1659 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
1660 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
1661 * grammar and markup changes throughout
1662 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
1663 explicit what is used to build this package
1665 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
1667 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * version number and date are automatically populated now
1671 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
1672 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
1673 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
1674 * utilize the new URL tag
1675 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
1678 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
1680 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1682 * non-maintainer release
1683 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
1684 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
1685 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
1686 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
1687 text, it can't hurt you.)
1688 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
1689 reflect this packages version number
1690 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
1692 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
1694 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1698 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
1700 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1702 * New version numbering scheme:
1704 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1705 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1706 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1709 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1710 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1711 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1712 differ between the manuals.
1714 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1715 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1716 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1717 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1719 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1720 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1722 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1724 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1726 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1730 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1731 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1733 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1734 (as requested by James Troup)
1736 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1738 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1740 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1742 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1746 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1748 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1750 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1751 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1752 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1753 the non-maintainer release
1755 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1756 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1757 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1760 - Lots of typos fixed
1762 * Compressed SGML source code
1764 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1765 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1767 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1769 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1771 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1774 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1775 - Announcing package uploads
1776 * New section about Debian Mentors
1777 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1778 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1779 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1780 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1782 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1784 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1787 of our FTP server and the development process
1788 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1789 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1790 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1792 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1793 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1794 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1795 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1796 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1797 contacting the maintainer
1798 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1799 a new manual released soon)
1800 * Some minor changes
1801 * Include SGML source in package
1802 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1803 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1805 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1807 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1811 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200