1 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
4 - French translation update to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
5 - proofread by Philippe Batailler
7 - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
9 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
10 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
11 - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
12 architecture-independent data bundled with programs
13 - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
14 kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
15 - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
16 right places in the document, closes: #172897
17 - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
21 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
23 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
24 - top-level makefile deletes targets on error
25 - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
26 table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
27 note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
28 package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
29 allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
31 - editorial changes on material added in this version
32 - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
33 from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, and discussions on bugs 139957
36 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
38 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
41 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
43 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
44 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
45 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
46 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
48 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
49 for best practices for documentation
50 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
51 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
52 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
53 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
57 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
59 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
62 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
63 descriptions" moved under there
64 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
65 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
66 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
67 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
68 the document where these tools are discussed
69 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
70 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
71 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
72 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
73 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
74 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
76 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
77 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
78 that can be fixed by DDP folks
79 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
80 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
81 - simply PS and PDF building rules
83 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
85 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
88 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
89 section and adjusted links
90 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
92 - ChangeLog attribution updates
93 - fix typos, closes: #171781
94 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
95 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
96 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
97 for debian/rules", and write an intro
98 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
99 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
100 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
101 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
102 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
103 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
104 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
105 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
106 "Internationalization"
107 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
108 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
109 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
110 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
111 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
112 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
113 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
114 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
115 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
117 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
118 rather useless and broken
119 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
120 names and the first word
121 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
122 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
123 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
125 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
126 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
127 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
129 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
131 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
134 - DDP publishing update
136 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
137 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
138 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
139 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
141 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
143 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
146 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
147 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
148 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
150 - added myself as co-author
151 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
153 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
154 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
156 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
157 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
159 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
161 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
164 - Corrected several errors with —
165 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
166 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
167 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
168 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
169 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
170 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
171 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
173 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
174 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
175 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
176 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
177 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
178 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
179 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
180 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
181 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
183 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
184 descriptions". closes: #158609
185 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
186 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
187 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
188 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
189 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
191 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
192 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
193 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
194 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
195 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
196 - updated the mailing lists section
198 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
199 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
202 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
204 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
207 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
208 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
210 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
212 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
213 Ch "The Debian Archive"
215 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
217 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
218 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
219 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
220 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
221 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
223 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
224 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
225 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
226 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
227 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
228 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
229 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
231 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
232 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
235 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
236 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
237 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
238 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
239 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
240 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
241 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
242 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
243 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
244 work-around with <...>
245 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
246 - update copyright date
247 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
248 - spell check and grammar corrections
252 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
254 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
255 recompile"; closes: #102626
256 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
257 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
258 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
259 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
260 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
262 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
263 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
264 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
266 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
268 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
269 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
270 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
271 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
272 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
273 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
274 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
275 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
276 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
278 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
280 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
282 - updated the list of available architectures.
283 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
284 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
285 of the package and nothing more.
286 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
287 any pain to the ftpmasters.
288 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
289 the use of the delayed queue.
290 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
291 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
293 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
294 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
295 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
296 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
297 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
298 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
299 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
301 - new Sec "Documentation"
302 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
303 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
304 "Being kind to porter" too
305 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
306 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
307 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
308 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
309 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
311 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
312 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
315 - update French translation
317 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
319 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
322 - some grammar corrections
323 - update French translation
325 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
326 anymore; closes: #135559
327 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
329 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
331 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
332 that would be welcome)
333 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
334 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
335 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
336 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
337 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
338 - other minor wording changes
339 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
340 - Ch "Package uploads":
341 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
342 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
343 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
344 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
345 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
346 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
347 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
349 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
351 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
353 * from Martin Michlmayr
354 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
355 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
356 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
358 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
360 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
362 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
364 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
365 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
366 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
369 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
371 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
374 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
376 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
379 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
381 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
382 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
383 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
384 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
385 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
386 talking about uploading to distributions
387 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
388 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
389 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
391 - French translation updated
393 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
394 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
395 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
397 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
399 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
402 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
403 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
406 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
408 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
411 * fix a typo in a link
412 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
413 update documentation accordingly
415 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
416 forwarding bugs upstream
418 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
419 entities which should be used
420 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
421 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
423 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
425 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
427 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
428 * French version: completely up-to-date now
429 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
430 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
432 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
435 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
437 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
439 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
441 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
442 this translation needs updating
443 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
444 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
445 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
447 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
448 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
449 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
451 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
452 included yet, however
454 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
456 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
458 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
460 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
461 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
463 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
465 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
467 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
469 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
470 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
471 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
473 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
475 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
477 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
480 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
481 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
482 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
483 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
484 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
485 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
486 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
487 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
488 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
489 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
490 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
491 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
493 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
494 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
495 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
496 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
497 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
499 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
501 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
502 * update copyright notice for 2001
503 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
504 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
505 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
507 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
509 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
511 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
513 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
515 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
517 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
519 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
522 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
524 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
525 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
526 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
527 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
528 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
529 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
530 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
531 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
532 could be used if necessary
533 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
534 mention the rsync dupload method
535 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
537 * other small corrections
538 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
539 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
540 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
541 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
543 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
545 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
546 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
548 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
550 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
552 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
553 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
554 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
555 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
557 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
558 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
559 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
560 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
561 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
563 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
565 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
566 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
567 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
568 team (closes: Bug#52906)
569 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
570 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
571 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
573 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
574 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
575 - added a section about the LDAP database
576 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
577 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
579 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
580 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
582 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
584 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
587 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
588 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
590 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
591 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
592 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
593 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
594 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
595 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
596 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
597 description from developers-reference.sgml
599 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
601 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
603 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
604 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
606 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
608 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
609 releases are available at archive.debian.org
610 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
611 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
612 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
613 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
614 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
615 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
616 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
617 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
619 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
620 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
621 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
622 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
624 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
625 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
626 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
627 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
628 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
629 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
630 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
631 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
632 suggestion from James Troup
633 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
634 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
635 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
636 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
639 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
641 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
643 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
644 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
646 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
648 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
650 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
651 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
652 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
653 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
654 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
655 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
656 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
658 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
660 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
663 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
664 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
665 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
666 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
667 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
669 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
670 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
672 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
674 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
676 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
680 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
681 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
682 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
683 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
684 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
686 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
687 with intro; demoted server sections under that
688 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
689 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
691 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
692 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
693 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
694 a normal developer may have access.
696 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
698 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
700 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
701 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
702 step all over each other
704 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
706 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
708 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
709 address for PGP key updates
711 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
713 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
716 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
717 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
718 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
719 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
721 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
723 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
725 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
726 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
727 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
728 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
729 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
730 <keyring-maint> instead)
731 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
732 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
734 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
736 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
737 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
738 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
740 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
742 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
744 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
745 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
746 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
747 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
748 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
749 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
751 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
752 tighten up the language a bit
753 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
754 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
755 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
756 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
758 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
759 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
760 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
761 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
762 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
763 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
765 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
766 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
767 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
768 about how to depart Debian gracefully
769 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
770 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
771 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
772 number of available packages
773 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
774 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
776 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
778 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
780 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
783 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
785 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
787 * not officially released
788 * more spelling corrections
789 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
791 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
793 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
795 * not officially released
796 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
797 * some PGP-centricity removed
798 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
799 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
800 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
801 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
802 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
803 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
805 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
807 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
809 * not officially released
810 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
811 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
812 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
813 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
814 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
815 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
816 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
817 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
818 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
819 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
820 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
821 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
822 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
823 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
825 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
826 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
828 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
830 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
831 take a couple of weeks
832 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
833 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
834 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
835 excited about it and can't wait
836 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
837 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
839 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
840 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
842 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
843 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
844 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
846 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
848 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
850 * move to 3-level version number:
851 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
852 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
853 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
854 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
855 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
858 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
859 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
860 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
862 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
864 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
865 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
866 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
867 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
868 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
869 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
871 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
873 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
874 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
875 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
876 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
877 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
878 - "The CVS server": new section added
879 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
881 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
882 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
883 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
884 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
885 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
887 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
888 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
889 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
890 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
891 a canonical location?)
892 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
893 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
894 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
895 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
897 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
899 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
900 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
901 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
902 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
904 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
906 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
909 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
910 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
911 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
912 them. (closes Bug#26948)
913 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
914 and should not be included in this Reference.
915 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
916 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
917 maintainer tools only!
918 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
919 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
920 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
921 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
922 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
923 * Little corrections here and there.
924 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
925 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
928 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
930 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
932 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
933 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
934 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
936 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
937 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
938 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
939 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
940 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
941 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
942 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
943 do prior to uploading
944 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
945 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
947 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
948 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
949 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
950 duties with respect to bugs
951 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
952 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
953 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
955 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
956 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
957 * grammar and markup changes throughout
958 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
959 explicit what is used to build this package
961 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
963 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
966 * version number and date are automatically populated now
967 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
968 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
969 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
970 * utilize the new URL tag
971 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
974 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
976 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
978 * non-maintainer release
979 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
980 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
981 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
982 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
983 text, it can't hurt you.)
984 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
985 reflect this packages version number
986 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
988 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
990 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
994 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
996 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
998 * New version numbering scheme:
1000 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1001 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1002 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1005 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1006 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1007 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1008 differ between the manuals.
1010 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1011 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1012 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1013 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1015 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1016 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1018 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1020 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1022 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1026 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1027 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1029 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1030 (as requested by James Troup)
1032 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1034 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1036 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1038 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1042 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1044 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1046 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1047 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1048 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1049 the non-maintainer release
1051 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1052 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1053 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1056 - Lots of typos fixed
1058 * Compressed SGML source code
1060 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1061 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1063 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1065 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1067 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1070 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1071 - Announcing package uploads
1072 * New section about Debian Mentors
1073 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1074 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1075 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1076 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1078 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1080 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1083 of our FTP server and the development process
1084 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1085 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1086 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1088 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1089 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1090 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1091 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1092 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1093 contacting the maintainer
1094 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1095 a new manual released soon)
1096 * Some minor changes
1097 * Include SGML source in package
1098 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1099 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1101 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1103 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1107 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200