1 developers-reference (3.4.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
4 * Update links from http to https where possible
7 * Drop section on goodies, point to wiki instead. Closes: #751489
9 -- Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:43:04 -0700
11 developers-reference (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=medium
14 * Fix typo in NMU section s/blocking/block/. Closes: #755515
17 * Fix typo in Vcs-Git:. Closes: #756491
18 * resources: Mention that some of the goodies also apply to DMs.
19 Thanks Philipp Kaluza for the patch. Closes: #581603
20 * Clarify type of changes accepted in NMUs. Thanks to Chris Knadle for the
21 patch! Closes: #672198
22 * Add Steam subscriptions to the list of goodies. Thanks to Paul Wise
23 for the patch. Closes: #736381
24 * Replace 'Debian GNU/Linux' with 'Debian' (except at one place). Thanks
25 to 'victory' for the patch. Closes: #708665
26 * Add pointer to debian-experimental-changes@l.d.o, where uploads to
27 experimental are sent. Thanks to Guo Yixuan for the patch! Closes: #671705
28 * Recommend git-bp instead of cvs-bp, and cowbuilder instead of pbuilder-uml.
29 Thanks to Osamu Aoki and Andreas Rönnquist for the patch! Closes: #741269
30 * Update for jessie. Thanks Fabien Givors for the patch! Closes: #719888
32 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:52:15 +0200
34 developers-reference (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=medium
37 * Update preferred contact method for the security team. Closes: #738607
38 Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso for the patch.
41 * Removed mention of Gandi's discontinued discount.
44 * Move maintenance to Git & collab-maint. Update Vcs-*.
45 * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.5 (no change required).
47 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:54:19 +0200
49 developers-reference (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Update versioning advice for security uploads as well. Closes: #709218
55 Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso for the patch.
57 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:06:40 +0200
59 developers-reference (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Add recommendations to re-introduce packages. Thanks to Paul Wise for the
65 patch. Closes: #685039
66 * Drop paragraph about vanilla debian/rules files which mainly points to a
67 no-longer working link.
70 * Introduce epub support. Closes: #652044
73 * Update versioning advice for uploads to stable/testing. Closes: #685646
74 * Advise to use codename-security instead of stable-security.
77 [ Translation updates ]
78 * French by David Prévot.
79 * Japanese by victory.
80 * German by Chris Leick.
84 - Update Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no change required).
85 - Use canonical URL for Vcs-Svn.
87 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Thu, 16 May 2013 18:35:23 -0400
89 developers-reference (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Clarify that removals from testing are possible. Closes: #678710
95 Thanks to Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com> for the patch.
96 * Reword various parts to be gender-neutral. Closes: #678712
97 Thanks to Per Andersson and Steve Langasek for the patch.
98 * Recommend usage of gender-neutral formulations in README-contrib.
99 * Fix Vcs-Browser URL. Thanks to Charles Plessy who spotted it.
100 * Document the existence of "hints" that release managers can
101 use to tweak the conditions of testing migration. Closes: #679562
102 Thanks to Paul Gevers <paul@climbing.nl> for the patch.
104 [ Translation updates ]
105 * Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
106 * French by David Prévot.
107 * German by Chris Leick.
110 * Fix typo: Freenodes -> Freenode. Closes: #679735
112 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:34:59 -0400
114 developers-reference (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Move away po4a handling in its own directory with a single config file.
118 * Adapt Makefile and README-contrib to the current po4a tree.
119 * Upgrades to stable should be discussed using reportbug. Thanks to Don
120 Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> for the patch.
121 Acked-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> . Closes: #670362
122 * Use UTF-8 locale to prepare the text version. Closes: #658839
123 * Delayed queue goes from 0 to 15-day. Closes: #631353
126 * Make XeTeX backend to use xCJK package only for CJK and add tipa for
127 build dependency. (See #666569). Closes: #666578
129 * Translation updates (complete)
130 - French by David Prévot.
131 - German by Chris Leick.
134 * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.3 (no change required).
135 * Switch to xz compression for source.
136 * Clean up debian/rules by using dh (with compat level 8).
137 * Drop build-dependency on latex-cjk-xcjk since xeCJK.sty is provided
138 by texlive-xetex directly.
140 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:57:23 +0200
142 developers-reference (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Document some best practices for meta-packages. Extend those for
148 transitional packages. Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna
149 <dktrkranz@debian.org> (thanks!). Closes: #569219
150 * Update license pointer to correctly point to GPL-2. Closes: #643929
151 Thanks to Luca Falavigna.
152 * Update URL of Debian Mentors FAQ. Closes: #643930
153 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
154 * Refresh some release-specific information. Closes: #643931
155 Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna.
156 * Refresh some ftpmaster-related information. Closes: #643932
157 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
158 * Update minimal GPG key length to match current requirements.
159 Closes: #643933 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
160 * Update login information for rt.debian.org. Closes: #643934
161 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
162 * Drop section about yada. Its usage is highly discouraged. Closes: #643935
163 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
164 * Update best practice about unfuzzying PO file translations to recommend
165 msguntypot. Thanks to David Prévot for the patch.
166 Acked-by Christian Perrier. Closes: #655153
169 * Add doc-base file for the German translation.
170 * Typo fix, thanks to Andreas Moog. Closes: #655096
171 * Use XeTeX backend, that fix quotes in examples. Closes: #629530
172 * Build the Japanese PDF, thanks to Osamu Aoki and the maint-guide build
175 * Translation updates (all completed)
176 - Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
177 - German by Chris Leick.
178 - French by David Prévot.
180 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:36:12 -0400
182 developers-reference (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Update the NMU rules to take into account the 0-day NMU rule
186 instituted by the release managers. Closes: #625449
189 * Update my email address.
190 * Encourage the use of RT to contact the security team.
191 Patch from Thijs Kinkhorst. Closes: #610782
192 * Document the process of returning after retirement.
193 Patch from Serafeim Zanikolas. Closes: #540249
194 * Add instructions how to mark a non-free package as auto-buildable.
195 Patch from Moritz Muehlenhoff, ACKed by Andreas Barth.
198 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:52:10 +0200
200 developers-reference (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Remove part about -v for package uploads from experimental to unstable,
206 version tracking removed that requirement.
209 * Rework section on "sponsoring packages" and include a basic
210 checklist for the sponsor. Closes: #453313
211 * Update the "Debian Developer's Duties" chapter to be more explicit
212 about duties of package maintainers. Closes: #548867
213 * Update references to merkel (which is decommissionned) where
214 needed. Closes: #619990
215 Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.
216 * Many typos fixed by Chris Leick <c.leick@vollbio.de>. Closes: #623512
219 * Initial German translation.
222 * Activate German package. Closes: #623489
223 * Update French translation.
224 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. No changes needed.
225 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets.
226 * Explicitly refer to GPL-2 file in debian/copyright.
229 * Update Japanese translation.
231 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:56:46 -0400
233 developers-reference (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Document the new derivatives-bugs PTS keyword.
237 * Removed hp.debian.or.jp reference. Closes: 561597
240 * Update description of the PTS "summary" keyword. Thanks to
241 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #469154
242 * Add accent on my first name in debian/control.
243 * Use "3.0 (native)" source format with bzip2 compression.
244 Created debian/source/{format,options} for this.
245 * Update guideline for override change to point to BTS
246 instead of email. Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the
247 patch. Closes: #540231
248 * Include full URL to the README of the upload queue. Thanks to Simon
249 McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #540974
250 * The key protecting #debian-private is now stored on a file
251 on master.debian.org, it's no more required to search into
252 the debian-private archives. Thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
253 for the patch. Closes: #548823
254 * Update information about upload queues. Thanks to Simon McVittie
255 <smcv@debian.org> for the patches:
256 - point to official names {ftp,ssh}.upload.debian.org. Closes: #554054
257 - drop references to non-working queues. Closes: #554077
258 * Mention docbook, POD and reST as convenient formats to write new manual
259 pages. Thanks to Charles Plessy and the debian-mentors list
260 for the idea and the patch. Closes: #557298
261 * Update several sections to take into account the new source formats “3.0
262 (quilt)” and “3.0 (native)”. Closes: #561952
263 * Drop reference to “dbs” in the section about including binary files.
264 * Fix typo “transfered“ → “transferred”. Closes: #555685
265 * Fix typo “programms“ → “programs”. Closes: #560808
266 * Drop section about debmake, it has been removed of Debian since lenny.
267 * Update URL of the security tracker. Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso.
269 * Update URL of Packages-arch-specific. Closes: #553974
270 * Update section about Alioth to mention FusionForge instead of GForge.
271 Drop mention of separate cvs.debian.org it's managed by Alioth too.
273 * Document new "buildd" keyword from the PTS.
274 * Update URL explaining the "Debian Maintainer" status, it's now at
275 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer. Closes: #564414
276 * Update number of source packages. Thanks Karl Goetz. Closes: #567235
277 * Update and simplify list of architectures. Thanks Karl Goetz.
279 * Small typo fixes and clarifications/rewordings suggested by Karl Goetz.
281 * Document the notion of "team upload": it looks like an NMU but it's not
282 really one because the uploader is an implicit co-maintainer since he's
283 part of the maintenance team. Thanks to Charles Plessy for the initial
284 patch. Closes: #573110
285 * Update standards-version to 3.9.1 and add missing ${misc:Depends} in
287 * Fix debian/tocsubstvars to cope with the new way dpkg-dev handles
288 multi-lines substitution variables.
291 * Update outdated mentions, typos and tags. Closes: #578664
292 * French translation updated from the 2006 debiandoc version.
293 * Apply updated patch from Nicolas François. Closes: #257150
294 * dinstall run happens four times a day. Closes: #585161
295 * Activate Japanese package.
296 * Handle addendum if it exists.
298 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:28:03 -0400
300 developers-reference (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Fixed working of the repackaged tarballs section to avoid giving the
303 impression that it's a standard packages must comply with. Closes:
305 * Specify that bugs from removed packages must be closed in foo+rm.
307 * Change the maintainer address to debian-policy@, based on discussion
309 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No changes needed.
310 * Update copyright notices and list of authors.
312 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:56:19 +0200
314 developers-reference (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Applied patch from Justin B Rye that improves the discussion on writing
317 package descriptions. Closes: #516436.
318 * Lenny has been released, update the list of codenames. Closes: #527008.
319 * Applied patch from Paul Wise that adds a paragraph about hostile
320 upstreams. Closes: #523985.
321 * Applied patch from Charles Plessy about providing information to the
322 ftpmasters. Closes: #526410.
323 * In the section about patch systems, mention quilt (wasn not
324 mentionned before) and describe it as the recommended patch system.
325 also mention dpatch and cdbs' patch system. drop dbs. Closes: #525668.
326 * Added a note in the wanna-build section to mention
327 http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt. Closes: #516375.
328 * Clarified NMU versioning to reflect existing practices. Closes: #532945.
329 * s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section
330 about repackaged upstream tarballs.
331 * Mention the Gandi.net hosting discount in section 4.13.
332 Applied patch from Tim Retout. Closes: #538245.
333 * Reduce length of title of L10N section so that it is no longer split.
334 Applied patch from Justin B Rye. Closes: #534688.
335 * Bumped debhelper compat level to 5 (4 was deprecated)
336 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No changes needed.
337 * Added pointer to debian-project@ post about the wanna-build team.
339 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:28:04 +0200
341 developers-reference (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
348 * Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
349 The most important changes are:
350 + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
351 + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
354 + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
355 with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
356 + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
357 distinction. Closes: #464230.
358 + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
359 + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
360 * Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
361 W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
362 * Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
363 Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
365 * Update instructions on the delayed queue.
366 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
368 * Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
369 Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
371 * Improved README.contrib. Mention command to checkout the SVN
372 version. Thanks to Christine Spang for the patch.
374 * Document usertags. Thanks to Chris Lamb for the patch.
376 * Updated documentation on translation updates.
377 Thanks to Christian Perrier for the patch.
379 * Update instructions on handling of security issues.
380 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
381 Closes: #512620, #510783.
383 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:57:54 +0100
385 developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
389 * Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. Closes: #470754.
390 * linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.
391 * Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.
392 * Collaborative Maintenance: the 'global part' of debian/control
393 is the first paragraph, about the source package. Closes: #483231.
394 * debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.
395 * Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package.
397 * README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
399 * build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
402 [ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
403 * Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
404 * In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
405 release codenames in <literal>
406 * Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
407 doesn't exist anymore.
408 * Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
409 thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
410 * Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
411 and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
412 * Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
413 the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
414 fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandings
415 about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
416 * Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
417 distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
418 team before upload. Closes: #459343
419 * Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
420 * Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
421 need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
422 hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
423 on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806
424 * Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
425 pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
427 * Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
428 description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
430 * Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
431 have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
432 debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
433 * Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
434 ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
435 Thomas. Closes: #485837
437 + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
438 + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!
440 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:45:49 +0200
442 developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
446 - bump standards-version to 3.7.3 (no change)
447 - fix debian/copyright
448 - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
449 - add pdf for French version.
450 * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
451 * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
452 Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
453 * Keyring now uses RT. Closes: #428846
454 * Document -dbg-packages within BPs. Thanks, Joey Hess. Closes: #420540
455 * NMUs now also close bugs. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum. Closes: #419507
456 * Fix documentation about gender neutral. Closes: #384178
457 * Fix typo. Closes: #405453
458 * More details on how to write documentation. Thanks, Josh Triplett.
460 * Add XS-Vcs-*. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli. Closes: #391023
461 * Small brushup to debconf description. Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.
463 * Document Team-Maintainence better. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum.
465 * Add link to more removal ressources. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt,
466 Justin Pryzby. Closes: #412757, #356720
467 * Repacking source packages need to be documented in copyright.
468 Thanks, Russ Allbery. Closes: #413320
469 * Better describe version of debian native packages NMUs. Closes: #405818
470 * Source, HTML and text are now encoded in UTF-8. Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
472 * Source is now DocBook XML instead of debiandoc. Closes: #374220
475 * Add a link to enrico's excellent Debian Community Guidelines.
476 * Recommend the use of DSA's request tracker instead of mailing them.
477 * Remove reference to #debian-sf, #debian-bsd which don't exist anymore. Put
478 a reference to #debian-dpkg instead.
479 * Remove all stuff concerning non-US.
480 * Update information concerning Alioth.
481 * Update information concerning the Package Tracking System.
482 * Mention Alioth as the main resource for VCS repositories and deprecate
484 * Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.
485 * Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
487 * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields pointing to the new SVN
490 -- W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:16:40 +0000
492 developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
494 * mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
496 * fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
497 * use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
499 * better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
500 the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
501 * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
503 * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
504 Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
505 * Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
507 * Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
508 Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
509 * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
510 to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
511 * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
512 * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
513 * stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
514 Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
515 Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
516 * add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
517 * add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
518 20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
520 * section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
521 Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
522 * binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
523 Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
524 * Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
525 * Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
526 * Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
527 * pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
528 * clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
529 * more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
533 - French translation updated to version 3.3.8
535 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
537 developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
540 - adjust information about distributions with reality.
541 - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
542 - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
543 - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
544 - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
545 - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
547 - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
549 - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
551 - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
553 - non-us discontinued.
554 - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
556 - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
557 Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
558 - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
559 - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
560 - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
561 - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
562 Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
563 - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
564 - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
565 - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
566 - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
567 - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
568 - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
569 - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
570 - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
571 - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
572 - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
573 - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
575 - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
576 - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
578 - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
581 - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
583 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
585 developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
588 - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
589 - madison is on merkel.
590 - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
591 - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
592 - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
593 - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
594 - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
595 - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
597 - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
598 - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
599 - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
600 - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
601 - sync NM rules with reality.
603 - French translation updated to version 3.3.6
605 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:49 -0700
607 developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
610 - uploads to more than one dist are not possible.
611 - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213
612 - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048
613 - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464
614 - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298
615 - spelling, grammer fixes.
616 Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208
617 - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968
618 - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814
619 - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021
620 - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654
621 - add myself to uploaders.
622 - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156
623 - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845
624 - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402
625 - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961
626 - add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
627 - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
628 - add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
629 - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
630 - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
631 - updated information about testing distribution. Closes: #266649.
632 - rewrote the NMU section, and
633 + made the possible severities of "target bugs" clearer. Closes: #233088.
634 + mention QA uploads. Closes: #202416.
635 + add -B for binNMUs, and local debsign usage. Closes: #208839.
636 + warning about breaking all-packages by binNMU. Closes: #213348.
637 - add information about gpg usage. Closes: #175815.
638 - make key replacement instructions more details. Closes: #275921
639 - typo and language fixes. Thanks, Era Eriksson. Closes: #277576
640 - add hints about debconf templates from Christian Perrier.
642 - Security uploads get urgency=high
643 - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
645 - French translation updated to version 3.3.5
647 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:07:26 +0100
649 developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
652 - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
653 Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
654 - updated the mailing lists section (again)
655 - documented Alioth, somewhat
657 - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
658 - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
660 - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
661 - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
662 - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
663 - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
667 - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
669 - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
670 Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
671 Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
672 bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
675 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:09:48 -0500
677 developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
680 - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
682 - updated documentation concerning the PTS
683 - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
684 - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
686 - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
687 - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
688 section on security bugs; closes: #196516
689 - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
692 - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
694 - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
695 - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
696 - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
697 - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
698 directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
700 - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
701 it clear these are special cases
702 - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
704 - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
706 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
708 developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
711 - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
712 - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
714 - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
716 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
718 developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
721 - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
723 - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
724 - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
725 - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
727 - more improvements to package synopsis and description
728 - the synopsis formula changed to either
729 <package-name> is a <synopsis>
731 <package-name> is <synopsis>
733 <package-name> are <synopsis>
735 - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
736 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
737 - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
738 - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
739 package; closes: #187143
741 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
743 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
746 - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
747 - proofread by Philippe Batailler
749 - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
751 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
752 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
753 - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
754 architecture-independent data bundled with programs
755 - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
756 kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
757 - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
758 right places in the document, closes: #172897
759 - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
763 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
765 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
766 - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
767 - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
768 table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
769 note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
770 package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
771 allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
773 - editorial changes on material added in this version
774 - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
775 - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
776 from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
777 closes: #139957, #108416
778 - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
779 emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
781 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
783 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
786 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
788 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
789 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
790 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
791 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
793 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
794 for best practices for documentation
795 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
796 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
797 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
798 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
800 - spell-checking pass
802 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
804 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
807 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
808 descriptions" moved under there
809 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
810 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
811 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
812 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
813 the document where these tools are discussed
814 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
815 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
816 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
817 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
818 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
819 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
821 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
822 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
823 that can be fixed by DDP folks
824 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
825 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
826 - simply PS and PDF building rules
828 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
830 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
833 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
834 section and adjusted links
835 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
837 - ChangeLog attribution updates
838 - fix typos, closes: #171781
839 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
840 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
841 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
842 for debian/rules", and write an intro
843 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
844 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
845 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
846 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
847 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
848 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
849 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
850 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
851 "Internationalization"
852 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
853 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
854 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
855 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
856 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
857 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
858 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
859 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
860 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
862 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
863 rather useless and broken
864 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
865 names and the first word
866 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
867 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
868 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
870 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
871 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
872 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
874 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
876 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
879 - DDP publishing update
881 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
882 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
883 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
884 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
886 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
888 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
891 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
892 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
893 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
895 - added myself as co-author
896 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
898 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
899 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
901 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
902 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
904 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
906 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
909 - Corrected several errors with —
910 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
911 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
912 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
913 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
914 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
915 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
916 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
918 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
919 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
920 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
921 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
922 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
923 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
924 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
925 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
926 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
928 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
929 descriptions". closes: #158609
930 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
931 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
932 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
933 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
934 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
936 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
937 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
938 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
939 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
940 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
941 - updated the mailing lists section
943 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
944 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
947 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
949 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
952 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
953 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
955 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
957 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
958 Ch "The Debian Archive"
960 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
962 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
963 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
964 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
965 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
966 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
968 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
969 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
970 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
971 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
972 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
973 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
974 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
976 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
977 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
980 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
981 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
982 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
983 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
984 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
985 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
986 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
987 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
988 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
989 work-around with <...>
990 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
991 - update copyright date
992 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
993 - spell check and grammar corrections
997 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
999 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
1000 recompile"; closes: #102626
1001 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
1002 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
1003 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
1004 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
1005 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
1007 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
1008 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
1009 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
1011 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
1013 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
1014 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
1015 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
1016 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
1017 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
1018 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
1019 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
1020 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
1021 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
1023 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
1025 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
1027 - updated the list of available architectures.
1028 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
1029 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
1030 of the package and nothing more.
1031 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
1032 any pain to the ftpmasters.
1033 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
1034 the use of the delayed queue.
1035 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
1036 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
1038 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
1039 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
1040 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
1041 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
1042 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
1043 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
1044 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
1046 - new Sec "Documentation"
1047 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
1048 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
1049 "Being kind to porter" too
1050 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
1051 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
1052 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
1053 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
1054 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
1056 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
1057 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
1060 - update French translation
1062 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
1064 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1067 - some grammar corrections
1068 - update French translation
1070 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
1071 anymore; closes: #135559
1072 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
1074 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
1076 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
1077 that would be welcome)
1078 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
1079 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
1080 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
1081 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
1082 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
1083 - other minor wording changes
1084 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
1085 - Ch "Package uploads":
1086 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
1087 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
1088 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
1089 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
1090 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
1091 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
1092 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
1094 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
1096 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * from Martin Michlmayr
1099 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
1100 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
1101 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
1103 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
1105 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
1107 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
1109 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
1110 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
1111 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
1112 - minor build tweaks
1114 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
1115 * from Chris Tillman
1116 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
1119 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
1121 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1124 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
1126 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
1127 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
1128 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
1129 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
1130 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
1131 talking about uploading to distributions
1132 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
1133 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
1134 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
1136 - French translation updated
1138 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
1139 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
1140 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
1142 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
1144 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
1147 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
1148 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
1151 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
1153 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * fix a typo in a link
1157 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
1158 update documentation accordingly
1160 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
1161 forwarding bugs upstream
1163 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
1164 entities which should be used
1165 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
1166 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
1168 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
1170 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
1173 * French version: completely up-to-date now
1174 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
1175 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
1177 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
1180 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
1182 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
1186 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
1187 this translation needs updating
1188 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
1189 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
1190 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
1192 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
1193 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
1194 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
1196 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
1197 included yet, however
1199 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
1201 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
1205 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
1206 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
1208 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
1210 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
1212 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
1215 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
1216 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
1218 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
1220 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
1222 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
1225 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
1226 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
1227 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
1228 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
1229 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
1230 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
1231 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
1232 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
1233 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
1234 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
1235 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
1236 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
1238 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
1239 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
1240 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
1241 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
1242 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
1244 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
1246 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
1247 * update copyright notice for 2001
1248 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
1249 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
1250 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
1252 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
1254 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
1258 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
1260 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
1262 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
1264 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
1267 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
1269 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
1270 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
1271 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
1272 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
1273 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
1274 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
1275 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
1276 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
1277 could be used if necessary
1278 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
1279 mention the rsync dupload method
1280 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
1282 * other small corrections
1283 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
1284 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
1285 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
1286 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
1288 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
1290 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
1291 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
1293 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
1295 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
1297 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
1298 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
1299 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
1300 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
1302 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
1303 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
1304 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
1305 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
1306 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
1308 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1310 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
1311 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
1312 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
1313 team (closes: Bug#52906)
1314 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
1315 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
1316 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
1318 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
1319 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
1320 - added a section about the LDAP database
1321 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
1322 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
1324 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
1325 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
1327 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
1329 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
1332 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
1333 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
1335 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
1336 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
1337 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
1338 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
1339 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
1340 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
1341 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
1342 description from developers-reference.sgml
1344 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
1346 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
1349 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
1351 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
1353 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
1354 releases are available at archive.debian.org
1355 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
1356 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
1357 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
1358 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
1359 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
1360 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
1361 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
1362 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
1364 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
1365 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
1366 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
1367 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
1369 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
1370 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
1371 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
1372 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
1373 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
1374 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
1375 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
1376 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
1377 suggestion from James Troup
1378 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
1379 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
1380 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
1381 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
1384 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
1386 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
1389 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
1391 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
1393 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
1396 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
1397 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
1398 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
1399 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
1400 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
1401 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
1403 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
1405 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
1408 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
1409 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
1410 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
1411 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
1412 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
1414 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
1415 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
1417 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
1419 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
1421 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
1425 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
1426 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
1427 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
1428 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
1429 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
1431 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
1432 with intro; demoted server sections under that
1433 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
1434 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
1436 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
1437 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
1438 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
1439 a normal developer may have access.
1441 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
1443 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
1446 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
1447 step all over each other
1449 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
1451 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
1454 address for PGP key updates
1456 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
1458 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
1461 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
1462 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
1463 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
1464 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
1466 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
1468 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
1471 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
1472 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
1473 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
1474 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
1475 <keyring-maint> instead)
1476 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
1477 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
1479 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
1481 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
1482 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
1483 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
1485 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
1487 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1489 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
1490 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
1491 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
1492 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
1493 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
1494 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
1496 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
1497 tighten up the language a bit
1498 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
1499 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
1500 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
1501 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
1503 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
1504 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
1505 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
1506 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
1507 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
1508 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
1510 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
1511 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
1512 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
1513 about how to depart Debian gracefully
1514 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
1515 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
1516 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
1517 number of available packages
1518 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
1519 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
1521 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
1523 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
1528 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
1530 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * not officially released
1533 * more spelling corrections
1534 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
1536 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
1538 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * not officially released
1541 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
1542 * some PGP-centricity removed
1543 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
1544 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
1545 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
1546 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
1547 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
1548 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
1550 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
1552 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1554 * not officially released
1555 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
1556 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
1557 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
1558 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
1559 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
1560 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
1561 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
1562 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
1563 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
1564 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
1565 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
1566 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
1567 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
1568 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
1570 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
1571 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
1573 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
1575 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
1576 take a couple of weeks
1577 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
1578 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
1579 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
1580 excited about it and can't wait
1581 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
1582 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
1584 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
1585 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
1587 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
1588 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
1589 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
1591 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
1593 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1595 * move to 3-level version number:
1596 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
1597 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
1598 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
1599 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
1600 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
1603 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
1604 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
1605 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
1607 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
1609 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
1610 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
1611 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
1612 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
1613 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
1614 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
1616 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
1618 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
1619 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
1620 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
1621 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
1622 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
1623 - "The CVS server": new section added
1624 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
1626 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
1627 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
1628 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
1629 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
1630 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
1631 with respect to GPG.
1632 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
1633 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
1634 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
1635 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
1636 a canonical location?)
1637 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
1638 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
1639 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
1640 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
1642 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
1644 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
1645 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
1646 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
1647 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
1649 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
1651 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
1654 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
1655 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
1656 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
1657 them. (closes Bug#26948)
1658 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
1659 and should not be included in this Reference.
1660 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
1661 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
1662 maintainer tools only!
1663 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
1664 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
1665 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
1666 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
1667 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
1668 * Little corrections here and there.
1669 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
1670 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
1673 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
1675 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
1678 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
1679 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
1681 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
1682 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
1683 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
1684 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
1685 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
1686 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
1687 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
1688 do prior to uploading
1689 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
1690 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
1692 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
1693 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
1694 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
1695 duties with respect to bugs
1696 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
1697 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
1698 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
1700 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
1701 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
1702 * grammar and markup changes throughout
1703 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
1704 explicit what is used to build this package
1706 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
1708 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * version number and date are automatically populated now
1712 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
1713 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
1714 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
1715 * utilize the new URL tag
1716 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
1719 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
1721 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1723 * non-maintainer release
1724 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
1725 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
1726 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
1727 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
1728 text, it can't hurt you.)
1729 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
1730 reflect this packages version number
1731 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
1733 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
1735 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1739 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
1741 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1743 * New version numbering scheme:
1745 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1746 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1747 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1750 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1751 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1752 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1753 differ between the manuals.
1755 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1756 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1757 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1758 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1760 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1761 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1763 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1765 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1767 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1771 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1772 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1774 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1775 (as requested by James Troup)
1777 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1779 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1781 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1783 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1787 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1789 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1791 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1792 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1793 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1794 the non-maintainer release
1796 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1797 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1798 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1801 - Lots of typos fixed
1803 * Compressed SGML source code
1805 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1806 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1808 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1810 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1812 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1815 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1816 - Announcing package uploads
1817 * New section about Debian Mentors
1818 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1819 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1820 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1821 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1823 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1825 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1828 of our FTP server and the development process
1829 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1830 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1831 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1833 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1834 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1835 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1836 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1837 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1838 contacting the maintainer
1839 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1840 a new manual released soon)
1841 * Some minor changes
1842 * Include SGML source in package
1843 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1844 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1846 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1848 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1852 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200
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