1 developers-reference (3.4.10) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Add recommendations to re-introduce packages. Thanks to Paul Wise for the
6 * Drop paragraph about vanilla debian/rules files which mainly points to a
7 no-longer working link.
10 * introduce epub support (Closes: #652044)
13 * Update versioning advice for uploads to stable/testing (closes: #685646).
14 * Advise to use codename-security instead of stable-security (closes:
17 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:20:49 +0200
19 developers-reference (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Clarify that removals from testing are possible. Closes: #678710
25 Thanks to Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com> for the patch.
26 * Reword various parts to be gender-neutral. Closes: #678712
27 Thanks to Per Andersson and Steve Langasek for the patch.
28 * Recommend usage of gender-neutral formulations in README-contrib.
29 * Fix Vcs-Browser URL. Thanks to Charles Plessy who spotted it.
30 * Document the existence of "hints" that release managers can
31 use to tweak the conditions of testing migration. Closes: #679562
32 Thanks to Paul Gevers <paul@climbing.nl> for the patch.
34 [ Translation updates ]
35 * Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
36 * French by David Prévot.
37 * German by Chris Leick.
40 * Fix typo: Freenodes -> Freenode. Closes: #679735
42 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:34:59 -0400
44 developers-reference (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Move away po4a handling in its own directory with a single config file.
48 * Adapt Makefile and README-contrib to the current po4a tree.
49 * Upgrades to stable should be discussed using reportbug. Thanks to Don
50 Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> for the patch.
51 Acked-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> . Closes: #670362
52 * Use UTF-8 locale to prepare the text version. Closes: #658839
53 * Delayed queue goes from 0 to 15-day. Closes: #631353
56 * Make XeTeX backend to use xCJK package only for CJK and add tipa for
57 build dependency. (See #666569). Closes: #666578
59 * Translation updates (complete)
60 - French by David Prévot.
61 - German by Chris Leick.
64 * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.3 (no change required).
65 * Switch to xz compression for source.
66 * Clean up debian/rules by using dh (with compat level 8).
67 * Drop build-dependency on latex-cjk-xcjk since xeCJK.sty is provided
68 by texlive-xetex directly.
70 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:57:23 +0200
72 developers-reference (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Document some best practices for meta-packages. Extend those for
78 transitional packages. Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna
79 <dktrkranz@debian.org> (thanks!). Closes: #569219
80 * Update license pointer to correctly point to GPL-2. Closes: #643929
81 Thanks to Luca Falavigna.
82 * Update URL of Debian Mentors FAQ. Closes: #643930
83 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
84 * Refresh some release-specific information. Closes: #643931
85 Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna.
86 * Refresh some ftpmaster-related information. Closes: #643932
87 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
88 * Update minimal GPG key length to match current requirements.
89 Closes: #643933 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
90 * Update login information for rt.debian.org. Closes: #643934
91 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
92 * Drop section about yada. Its usage is highly discouraged. Closes: #643935
93 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
94 * Update best practice about unfuzzying PO file translations to recommend
95 msguntypot. Thanks to David Prévot for the patch.
96 Acked-by Christian Perrier. Closes: #655153
99 * Add doc-base file for the German translation.
100 * Typo fix, thanks to Andreas Moog. Closes: #655096
101 * Use XeTeX backend, that fix quotes in examples. Closes: #629530
102 * Build the Japanese PDF, thanks to Osamu Aoki and the maint-guide build
105 * Translation updates (all completed)
106 - Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
107 - German by Chris Leick.
108 - French by David Prévot.
110 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:36:12 -0400
112 developers-reference (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Update the NMU rules to take into account the 0-day NMU rule
116 instituted by the release managers. Closes: #625449
119 * Update my email address.
120 * Encourage the use of RT to contact the security team.
121 Patch from Thijs Kinkhorst. Closes: #610782
122 * Document the process of returning after retirement.
123 Patch from Serafeim Zanikolas. Closes: #540249
124 * Add instructions how to mark a non-free package as auto-buildable.
125 Patch from Moritz Muehlenhoff, ACKed by Andreas Barth.
128 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:52:10 +0200
130 developers-reference (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Remove part about -v for package uploads from experimental to unstable,
136 version tracking removed that requirement.
139 * Rework section on "sponsoring packages" and include a basic
140 checklist for the sponsor. Closes: #453313
141 * Update the "Debian Developer's Duties" chapter to be more explicit
142 about duties of package maintainers. Closes: #548867
143 * Update references to merkel (which is decommissionned) where
144 needed. Closes: #619990
145 Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.
146 * Many typos fixed by Chris Leick <c.leick@vollbio.de>. Closes: #623512
149 * Initial German translation.
152 * Activate German package. Closes: #623489
153 * Update French translation.
154 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. No changes needed.
155 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets.
156 * Explicitly refer to GPL-2 file in debian/copyright.
159 * Update Japanese translation.
161 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:56:46 -0400
163 developers-reference (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Document the new derivatives-bugs PTS keyword.
167 * Removed hp.debian.or.jp reference. Closes: 561597
170 * Update description of the PTS "summary" keyword. Thanks to
171 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #469154
172 * Add accent on my first name in debian/control.
173 * Use "3.0 (native)" source format with bzip2 compression.
174 Created debian/source/{format,options} for this.
175 * Update guideline for override change to point to BTS
176 instead of email. Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the
177 patch. Closes: #540231
178 * Include full URL to the README of the upload queue. Thanks to Simon
179 McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #540974
180 * The key protecting #debian-private is now stored on a file
181 on master.debian.org, it's no more required to search into
182 the debian-private archives. Thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
183 for the patch. Closes: #548823
184 * Update information about upload queues. Thanks to Simon McVittie
185 <smcv@debian.org> for the patches:
186 - point to official names {ftp,ssh}.upload.debian.org. Closes: #554054
187 - drop references to non-working queues. Closes: #554077
188 * Mention docbook, POD and reST as convenient formats to write new manual
189 pages. Thanks to Charles Plessy and the debian-mentors list
190 for the idea and the patch. Closes: #557298
191 * Update several sections to take into account the new source formats “3.0
192 (quilt)” and “3.0 (native)”. Closes: #561952
193 * Drop reference to “dbs” in the section about including binary files.
194 * Fix typo “transfered“ → “transferred”. Closes: #555685
195 * Fix typo “programms“ → “programs”. Closes: #560808
196 * Drop section about debmake, it has been removed of Debian since lenny.
197 * Update URL of the security tracker. Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso.
199 * Update URL of Packages-arch-specific. Closes: #553974
200 * Update section about Alioth to mention FusionForge instead of GForge.
201 Drop mention of separate cvs.debian.org it's managed by Alioth too.
203 * Document new "buildd" keyword from the PTS.
204 * Update URL explaining the "Debian Maintainer" status, it's now at
205 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer. Closes: #564414
206 * Update number of source packages. Thanks Karl Goetz. Closes: #567235
207 * Update and simplify list of architectures. Thanks Karl Goetz.
209 * Small typo fixes and clarifications/rewordings suggested by Karl Goetz.
211 * Document the notion of "team upload": it looks like an NMU but it's not
212 really one because the uploader is an implicit co-maintainer since he's
213 part of the maintenance team. Thanks to Charles Plessy for the initial
214 patch. Closes: #573110
215 * Update standards-version to 3.9.1 and add missing ${misc:Depends} in
217 * Fix debian/tocsubstvars to cope with the new way dpkg-dev handles
218 multi-lines substitution variables.
221 * Update outdated mentions, typos and tags. Closes: #578664
222 * French translation updated from the 2006 debiandoc version.
223 * Apply updated patch from Nicolas François. Closes: #257150
224 * dinstall run happens four times a day. Closes: #585161
225 * Activate Japanese package.
226 * Handle addendum if it exists.
228 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:28:03 -0400
230 developers-reference (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Fixed working of the repackaged tarballs section to avoid giving the
233 impression that it's a standard packages must comply with. Closes:
235 * Specify that bugs from removed packages must be closed in foo+rm.
237 * Change the maintainer address to debian-policy@, based on discussion
239 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No changes needed.
240 * Update copyright notices and list of authors.
242 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:56:19 +0200
244 developers-reference (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Applied patch from Justin B Rye that improves the discussion on writing
247 package descriptions. Closes: #516436.
248 * Lenny has been released, update the list of codenames. Closes: #527008.
249 * Applied patch from Paul Wise that adds a paragraph about hostile
250 upstreams. Closes: #523985.
251 * Applied patch from Charles Plessy about providing information to the
252 ftpmasters. Closes: #526410.
253 * In the section about patch systems, mention quilt (wasn not
254 mentionned before) and describe it as the recommended patch system.
255 also mention dpatch and cdbs' patch system. drop dbs. Closes: #525668.
256 * Added a note in the wanna-build section to mention
257 http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt. Closes: #516375.
258 * Clarified NMU versioning to reflect existing practices. Closes: #532945.
259 * s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section
260 about repackaged upstream tarballs.
261 * Mention the Gandi.net hosting discount in section 4.13.
262 Applied patch from Tim Retout. Closes: #538245.
263 * Reduce length of title of L10N section so that it is no longer split.
264 Applied patch from Justin B Rye. Closes: #534688.
265 * Bumped debhelper compat level to 5 (4 was deprecated)
266 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No changes needed.
267 * Added pointer to debian-project@ post about the wanna-build team.
269 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:28:04 +0200
271 developers-reference (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
278 * Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
279 The most important changes are:
280 + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
281 + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
284 + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
285 with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
286 + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
287 distinction. Closes: #464230.
288 + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
289 + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
290 * Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
291 W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
292 * Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
293 Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
295 * Update instructions on the delayed queue.
296 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
298 * Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
299 Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
301 * Improved README.contrib. Mention command to checkout the SVN
302 version. Thanks to Christine Spang for the patch.
304 * Document usertags. Thanks to Chris Lamb for the patch.
306 * Updated documentation on translation updates.
307 Thanks to Christian Perrier for the patch.
309 * Update instructions on handling of security issues.
310 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
311 Closes: #512620, #510783.
313 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:57:54 +0100
315 developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
319 * Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. Closes: #470754.
320 * linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.
321 * Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.
322 * Collaborative Maintenance: the 'global part' of debian/control
323 is the first paragraph, about the source package. Closes: #483231.
324 * debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.
325 * Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package.
327 * README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
329 * build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
332 [ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
333 * Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
334 * In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
335 release codenames in <literal>
336 * Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
337 doesn't exist anymore.
338 * Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
339 thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
340 * Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
341 and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
342 * Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
343 the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
344 fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandings
345 about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
346 * Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
347 distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
348 team before upload. Closes: #459343
349 * Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
350 * Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
351 need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
352 hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
353 on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806
354 * Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
355 pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
357 * Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
358 description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
360 * Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
361 have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
362 debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
363 * Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
364 ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
365 Thomas. Closes: #485837
367 + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
368 + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!
370 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:45:49 +0200
372 developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
376 - bump standards-version to 3.7.3 (no change)
377 - fix debian/copyright
378 - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
379 - add pdf for French version.
380 * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
381 * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
382 Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
383 * Keyring now uses RT. Closes: #428846
384 * Document -dbg-packages within BPs. Thanks, Joey Hess. Closes: #420540
385 * NMUs now also close bugs. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum. Closes: #419507
386 * Fix documentation about gender neutral. Closes: #384178
387 * Fix typo. Closes: #405453
388 * More details on how to write documentation. Thanks, Josh Triplett.
390 * Add XS-Vcs-*. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli. Closes: #391023
391 * Small brushup to debconf description. Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.
393 * Document Team-Maintainence better. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum.
395 * Add link to more removal ressources. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt,
396 Justin Pryzby. Closes: #412757, #356720
397 * Repacking source packages need to be documented in copyright.
398 Thanks, Russ Allbery. Closes: #413320
399 * Better describe version of debian native packages NMUs. Closes: #405818
400 * Source, HTML and text are now encoded in UTF-8. Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
402 * Source is now DocBook XML instead of debiandoc. Closes: #374220
405 * Add a link to enrico's excellent Debian Community Guidelines.
406 * Recommend the use of DSA's request tracker instead of mailing them.
407 * Remove reference to #debian-sf, #debian-bsd which don't exist anymore. Put
408 a reference to #debian-dpkg instead.
409 * Remove all stuff concerning non-US.
410 * Update information concerning Alioth.
411 * Update information concerning the Package Tracking System.
412 * Mention Alioth as the main resource for VCS repositories and deprecate
414 * Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.
415 * Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
417 * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields pointing to the new SVN
420 -- W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:16:40 +0000
422 developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
424 * mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
426 * fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
427 * use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
429 * better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
430 the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
431 * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
433 * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
434 Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
435 * Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
437 * Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
438 Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
439 * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
440 to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
441 * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
442 * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
443 * stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
444 Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
445 Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
446 * add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
447 * add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
448 20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
450 * section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
451 Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
452 * binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
453 Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
454 * Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
455 * Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
456 * Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
457 * pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
458 * clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
459 * more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
463 - French translation updated to version 3.3.8
465 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
467 developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
470 - adjust information about distributions with reality.
471 - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
472 - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
473 - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
474 - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
475 - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
477 - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
479 - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
481 - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
483 - non-us discontinued.
484 - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
486 - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
487 Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
488 - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
489 - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
490 - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
491 - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
492 Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
493 - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
494 - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
495 - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
496 - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
497 - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
498 - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
499 - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
500 - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
501 - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
502 - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
503 - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
505 - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
506 - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
508 - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
511 - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
513 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
515 developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
518 - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
519 - madison is on merkel.
520 - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
521 - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
522 - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
523 - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
524 - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
525 - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
527 - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
528 - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
529 - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
530 - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
531 - sync NM rules with reality.
533 - French translation updated to version 3.3.6
535 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:49 -0700
537 developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
540 - uploads to more than one dist are not possible.
541 - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213
542 - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048
543 - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464
544 - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298
545 - spelling, grammer fixes.
546 Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208
547 - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968
548 - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814
549 - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021
550 - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654
551 - add myself to uploaders.
552 - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156
553 - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845
554 - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402
555 - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961
556 - add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
557 - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
558 - add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
559 - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
560 - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
561 - updated information about testing distribution. Closes: #266649.
562 - rewrote the NMU section, and
563 + made the possible severities of "target bugs" clearer. Closes: #233088.
564 + mention QA uploads. Closes: #202416.
565 + add -B for binNMUs, and local debsign usage. Closes: #208839.
566 + warning about breaking all-packages by binNMU. Closes: #213348.
567 - add information about gpg usage. Closes: #175815.
568 - make key replacement instructions more details. Closes: #275921
569 - typo and language fixes. Thanks, Era Eriksson. Closes: #277576
570 - add hints about debconf templates from Christian Perrier.
572 - Security uploads get urgency=high
573 - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
575 - French translation updated to version 3.3.5
577 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:07:26 +0100
579 developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
582 - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
583 Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
584 - updated the mailing lists section (again)
585 - documented Alioth, somewhat
587 - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
588 - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
590 - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
591 - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
592 - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
593 - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
597 - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
599 - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
600 Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
601 Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
602 bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
605 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:09:48 -0500
607 developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
610 - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
612 - updated documentation concerning the PTS
613 - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
614 - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
616 - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
617 - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
618 section on security bugs; closes: #196516
619 - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
622 - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
624 - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
625 - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
626 - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
627 - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
628 directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
630 - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
631 it clear these are special cases
632 - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
634 - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
636 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
638 developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
641 - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
642 - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
644 - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
646 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
648 developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
651 - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
653 - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
654 - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
655 - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
657 - more improvements to package synopsis and description
658 - the synopsis formula changed to either
659 <package-name> is a <synopsis>
661 <package-name> is <synopsis>
663 <package-name> are <synopsis>
665 - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
666 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
667 - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
668 - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
669 package; closes: #187143
671 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
673 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
676 - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
677 - proofread by Philippe Batailler
679 - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
681 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
682 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
683 - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
684 architecture-independent data bundled with programs
685 - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
686 kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
687 - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
688 right places in the document, closes: #172897
689 - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
693 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
695 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
696 - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
697 - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
698 table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
699 note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
700 package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
701 allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
703 - editorial changes on material added in this version
704 - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
705 - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
706 from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
707 closes: #139957, #108416
708 - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
709 emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
711 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
713 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
716 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
718 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
719 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
720 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
721 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
723 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
724 for best practices for documentation
725 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
726 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
727 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
728 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
730 - spell-checking pass
732 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
734 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
737 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
738 descriptions" moved under there
739 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
740 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
741 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
742 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
743 the document where these tools are discussed
744 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
745 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
746 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
747 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
748 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
749 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
751 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
752 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
753 that can be fixed by DDP folks
754 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
755 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
756 - simply PS and PDF building rules
758 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
760 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
763 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
764 section and adjusted links
765 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
767 - ChangeLog attribution updates
768 - fix typos, closes: #171781
769 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
770 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
771 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
772 for debian/rules", and write an intro
773 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
774 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
775 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
776 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
777 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
778 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
779 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
780 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
781 "Internationalization"
782 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
783 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
784 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
785 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
786 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
787 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
788 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
789 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
790 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
792 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
793 rather useless and broken
794 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
795 names and the first word
796 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
797 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
798 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
800 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
801 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
802 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
804 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
806 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
809 - DDP publishing update
811 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
812 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
813 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
814 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
816 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
818 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
821 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
822 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
823 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
825 - added myself as co-author
826 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
828 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
829 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
831 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
832 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
834 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
836 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
839 - Corrected several errors with —
840 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
841 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
842 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
843 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
844 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
845 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
846 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
848 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
849 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
850 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
851 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
852 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
853 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
854 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
855 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
856 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
858 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
859 descriptions". closes: #158609
860 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
861 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
862 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
863 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
864 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
866 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
867 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
868 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
869 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
870 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
871 - updated the mailing lists section
873 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
874 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
877 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
879 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
882 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
883 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
885 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
887 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
888 Ch "The Debian Archive"
890 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
892 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
893 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
894 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
895 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
896 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
898 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
899 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
900 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
901 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
902 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
903 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
904 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
906 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
907 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
910 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
911 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
912 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
913 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
914 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
915 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
916 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
917 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
918 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
919 work-around with <...>
920 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
921 - update copyright date
922 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
923 - spell check and grammar corrections
927 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
929 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
930 recompile"; closes: #102626
931 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
932 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
933 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
934 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
935 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
937 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
938 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
939 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
941 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
943 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
944 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
945 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
946 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
947 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
948 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
949 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
950 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
951 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
953 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
955 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
957 - updated the list of available architectures.
958 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
959 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
960 of the package and nothing more.
961 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
962 any pain to the ftpmasters.
963 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
964 the use of the delayed queue.
965 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
966 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
968 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
969 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
970 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
971 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
972 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
973 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
974 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
976 - new Sec "Documentation"
977 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
978 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
979 "Being kind to porter" too
980 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
981 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
982 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
983 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
984 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
986 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
987 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
990 - update French translation
992 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
994 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
997 - some grammar corrections
998 - update French translation
1000 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
1001 anymore; closes: #135559
1002 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
1004 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
1006 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
1007 that would be welcome)
1008 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
1009 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
1010 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
1011 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
1012 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
1013 - other minor wording changes
1014 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
1015 - Ch "Package uploads":
1016 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
1017 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
1018 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
1019 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
1020 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
1021 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
1022 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
1024 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
1026 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * from Martin Michlmayr
1029 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
1030 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
1031 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
1033 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
1035 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
1037 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
1039 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
1040 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
1041 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
1042 - minor build tweaks
1044 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
1045 * from Chris Tillman
1046 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
1049 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
1051 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1054 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
1056 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
1057 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
1058 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
1059 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
1060 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
1061 talking about uploading to distributions
1062 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
1063 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
1064 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
1066 - French translation updated
1068 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
1069 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
1070 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
1072 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
1074 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
1077 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
1078 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
1081 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
1083 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * fix a typo in a link
1087 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
1088 update documentation accordingly
1090 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
1091 forwarding bugs upstream
1093 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
1094 entities which should be used
1095 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
1096 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
1098 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
1100 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
1103 * French version: completely up-to-date now
1104 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
1105 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
1107 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
1110 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
1112 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
1116 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
1117 this translation needs updating
1118 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
1119 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
1120 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
1122 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
1123 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
1124 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
1126 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
1127 included yet, however
1129 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
1131 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
1135 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
1136 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
1138 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
1140 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
1142 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
1145 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
1146 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
1148 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
1150 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
1152 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
1155 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
1156 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
1157 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
1158 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
1159 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
1160 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
1161 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
1162 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
1163 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
1164 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
1165 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
1166 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
1168 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
1169 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
1170 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
1171 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
1172 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
1174 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
1176 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
1177 * update copyright notice for 2001
1178 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
1179 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
1180 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
1182 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
1184 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
1188 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
1190 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
1192 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
1194 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
1197 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
1199 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
1200 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
1201 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
1202 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
1203 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
1204 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
1205 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
1206 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
1207 could be used if necessary
1208 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
1209 mention the rsync dupload method
1210 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
1212 * other small corrections
1213 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
1214 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
1215 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
1216 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
1218 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
1220 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
1221 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
1223 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
1225 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
1227 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
1228 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
1229 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
1230 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
1232 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
1233 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
1234 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
1235 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
1236 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
1238 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1240 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
1241 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
1242 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
1243 team (closes: Bug#52906)
1244 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
1245 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
1246 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
1248 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
1249 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
1250 - added a section about the LDAP database
1251 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
1252 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
1254 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
1255 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
1257 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
1259 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
1262 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
1263 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
1265 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
1266 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
1267 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
1268 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
1269 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
1270 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
1271 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
1272 description from developers-reference.sgml
1274 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
1276 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
1279 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
1281 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
1283 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
1284 releases are available at archive.debian.org
1285 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
1286 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
1287 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
1288 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
1289 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
1290 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
1291 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
1292 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
1294 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
1295 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
1296 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
1297 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
1299 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
1300 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
1301 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
1302 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
1303 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
1304 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
1305 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
1306 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
1307 suggestion from James Troup
1308 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
1309 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
1310 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
1311 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
1314 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
1316 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
1319 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
1321 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
1323 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
1326 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
1327 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
1328 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
1329 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
1330 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
1331 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
1333 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
1335 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
1338 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
1339 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
1340 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
1341 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
1342 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
1344 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
1345 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
1347 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
1349 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
1351 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
1355 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
1356 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
1357 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
1358 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
1359 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
1361 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
1362 with intro; demoted server sections under that
1363 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
1364 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
1366 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
1367 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
1368 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
1369 a normal developer may have access.
1371 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
1373 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
1376 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
1377 step all over each other
1379 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
1381 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
1384 address for PGP key updates
1386 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
1388 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
1391 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
1392 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
1393 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
1394 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
1396 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
1398 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
1401 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
1402 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
1403 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
1404 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
1405 <keyring-maint> instead)
1406 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
1407 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
1409 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
1411 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
1412 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
1413 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
1415 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
1417 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1419 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
1420 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
1421 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
1422 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
1423 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
1424 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
1426 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
1427 tighten up the language a bit
1428 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
1429 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
1430 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
1431 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
1433 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
1434 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
1435 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
1436 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
1437 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
1438 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
1440 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
1441 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
1442 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
1443 about how to depart Debian gracefully
1444 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
1445 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
1446 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
1447 number of available packages
1448 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
1449 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
1451 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
1453 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
1458 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
1460 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * not officially released
1463 * more spelling corrections
1464 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
1466 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
1468 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * not officially released
1471 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
1472 * some PGP-centricity removed
1473 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
1474 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
1475 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
1476 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
1477 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
1478 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
1480 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
1482 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1484 * not officially released
1485 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
1486 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
1487 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
1488 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
1489 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
1490 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
1491 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
1492 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
1493 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
1494 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
1495 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
1496 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
1497 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
1498 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
1500 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
1501 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
1503 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
1505 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
1506 take a couple of weeks
1507 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
1508 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
1509 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
1510 excited about it and can't wait
1511 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
1512 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
1514 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
1515 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
1517 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
1518 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
1519 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
1521 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
1523 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1525 * move to 3-level version number:
1526 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
1527 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
1528 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
1529 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
1530 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
1533 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
1534 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
1535 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
1537 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
1539 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
1540 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
1541 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
1542 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
1543 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
1544 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
1546 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
1548 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
1549 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
1550 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
1551 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
1552 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
1553 - "The CVS server": new section added
1554 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
1556 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
1557 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
1558 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
1559 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
1560 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
1561 with respect to GPG.
1562 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
1563 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
1564 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
1565 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
1566 a canonical location?)
1567 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
1568 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
1569 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
1570 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
1572 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
1574 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
1575 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
1576 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
1577 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
1579 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
1581 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
1584 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
1585 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
1586 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
1587 them. (closes Bug#26948)
1588 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
1589 and should not be included in this Reference.
1590 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
1591 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
1592 maintainer tools only!
1593 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
1594 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
1595 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
1596 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
1597 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
1598 * Little corrections here and there.
1599 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
1600 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
1603 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
1605 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
1608 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
1609 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
1611 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
1612 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
1613 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
1614 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
1615 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
1616 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
1617 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
1618 do prior to uploading
1619 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
1620 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
1622 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
1623 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
1624 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
1625 duties with respect to bugs
1626 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
1627 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
1628 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
1630 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
1631 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
1632 * grammar and markup changes throughout
1633 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
1634 explicit what is used to build this package
1636 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
1638 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * version number and date are automatically populated now
1642 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
1643 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
1644 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
1645 * utilize the new URL tag
1646 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
1649 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
1651 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1653 * non-maintainer release
1654 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
1655 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
1656 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
1657 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
1658 text, it can't hurt you.)
1659 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
1660 reflect this packages version number
1661 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
1663 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
1665 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1669 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
1671 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1673 * New version numbering scheme:
1675 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1676 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1677 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1680 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1681 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1682 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1683 differ between the manuals.
1685 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1686 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1687 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1688 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1690 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1691 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1693 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1695 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1697 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1701 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1702 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1704 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1705 (as requested by James Troup)
1707 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1709 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1711 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1713 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1717 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1719 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1721 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1722 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1723 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1724 the non-maintainer release
1726 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1727 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1728 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1731 - Lots of typos fixed
1733 * Compressed SGML source code
1735 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1736 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1738 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1740 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1742 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1745 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1746 - Announcing package uploads
1747 * New section about Debian Mentors
1748 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1749 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1750 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1751 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1753 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1755 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1758 of our FTP server and the development process
1759 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1760 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1761 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1763 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1764 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1765 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1766 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1767 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1768 contacting the maintainer
1769 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1770 a new manual released soon)
1771 * Some minor changes
1772 * Include SGML source in package
1773 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1774 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1776 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1778 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1782 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200
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