1 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
4 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
5 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
7 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
9 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
10 Ch "The Debian Archive"
11 New Sec "Documentation" stubbed out
13 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
15 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
16 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
17 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
18 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
19 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
21 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
22 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
23 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
24 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
25 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
26 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
27 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
29 - Sec "Voting" stubbed in Developer Duties
30 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
32 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
33 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
34 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
35 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
36 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
37 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
38 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
39 - update copyright date
40 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
44 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example.
46 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
47 recompile"; closes: #102626
48 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
51 - update French translation
53 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 6 May 2002 19:52:15 -0700
55 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
58 - some grammar corrections
59 - update French translation
61 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
62 anymore; closes: #135559
63 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
65 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
67 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
68 that would be welcome)
69 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
70 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
71 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
72 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
73 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
74 - other minor wording changes
75 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
76 - Ch "Package uploads":
77 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
78 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
79 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
80 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
81 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
82 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
83 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
85 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
87 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
89 * from Martin Michlmayr
90 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
91 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
92 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
94 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
96 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
98 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
100 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
101 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
102 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
105 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
107 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
110 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
112 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
115 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
117 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
118 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
119 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
120 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
121 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
122 talking about uploading to distributions
123 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
124 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
125 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
127 - French translation updated
129 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
130 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
131 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
133 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
135 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
138 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
139 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
142 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
144 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
147 * fix a typo in a link
148 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
149 update documentation accordingly
151 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
152 forwarding bugs upstream
154 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
155 entities which should be used
156 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
157 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
159 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
161 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
163 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
164 * French version: completely up-to-date now
165 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
166 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
168 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
171 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
173 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
175 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
177 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
178 this translation needs updating
179 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
180 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
181 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
183 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
184 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
185 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
187 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
188 included yet, however
190 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
192 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
194 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
196 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
197 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
199 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
201 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
203 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
205 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
206 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
207 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
209 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
211 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
213 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
216 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
217 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
218 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
219 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
220 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
221 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
222 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
223 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
224 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
225 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
226 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
227 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
229 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
230 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
231 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
232 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
233 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
235 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
237 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
238 * update copyright notice for 2001
239 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
240 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
241 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
243 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
245 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
247 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
249 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
251 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
253 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
255 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
258 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
260 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
261 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
262 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
263 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
264 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
265 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
266 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
267 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
268 could be used if necessary
269 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
270 mention the rsync dupload method
271 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
273 * other small corrections
274 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
275 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
276 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
277 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
279 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
281 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
282 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
284 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
286 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
288 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
289 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
290 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
291 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
293 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
294 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
295 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
296 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
297 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
299 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
301 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
302 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
303 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
304 team (closes: Bug#52906)
305 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
306 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
307 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
309 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
310 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
311 - added a section about the LDAP database
312 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
313 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
315 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
316 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
318 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
320 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
323 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
324 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
326 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
327 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
328 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
329 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
330 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
331 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
332 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
333 description from developers-reference.sgml
335 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
337 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
339 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
340 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
342 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
344 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
345 releases are available at archive.debian.org
346 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
347 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
348 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
349 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
350 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
351 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
352 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
353 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
355 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
356 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
357 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
358 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
360 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
361 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
362 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
363 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
364 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
365 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
366 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
367 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
368 suggestion from James Troup
369 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
370 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
371 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
372 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
375 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
377 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
379 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
380 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
382 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
384 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
386 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
387 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
388 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
389 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
390 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
391 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
392 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
394 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
396 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
399 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
400 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
401 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
402 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
403 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
405 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
406 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
408 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
410 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
412 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
416 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
417 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
418 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
419 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
420 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
422 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
423 with intro; demoted server sections under that
424 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
425 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
427 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
428 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
429 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
430 a normal developer may have access.
432 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
434 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
436 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
437 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
438 step all over each other
440 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
442 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
444 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
445 address for PGP key updates
447 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
449 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
452 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
453 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
454 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
455 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
457 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
459 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
461 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
462 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
463 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
464 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
465 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
466 <keyring-maint> instead)
467 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
468 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
470 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
472 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
473 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
474 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
476 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
478 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
480 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
481 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
482 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
483 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
484 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
485 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
487 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
488 tighten up the language a bit
489 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
490 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
491 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
492 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
494 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
495 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
496 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
497 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
498 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
499 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
501 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
502 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
503 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
504 about how to depart Debian gracefully
505 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
506 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
507 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
508 number of available packages
509 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
510 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
512 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
514 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
516 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
519 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
521 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
523 * not officially released
524 * more spelling corrections
525 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
527 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
529 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
531 * not officially released
532 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
533 * some PGP-centricity removed
534 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
535 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
536 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
537 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
538 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
539 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
541 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
543 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
545 * not officially released
546 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
547 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
548 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
549 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
550 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
551 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
552 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
553 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
554 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
555 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
556 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
557 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
558 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
559 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
561 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
562 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
564 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
566 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
567 take a couple of weeks
568 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
569 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
570 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
571 excited about it and can't wait
572 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
573 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
575 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
576 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
578 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
579 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
580 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
582 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
584 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
586 * move to 3-level version number:
587 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
588 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
589 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
590 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
591 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
594 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
595 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
596 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
598 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
600 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
601 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
602 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
603 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
604 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
605 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
607 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
609 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
610 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
611 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
612 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
613 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
614 - "The CVS server": new section added
615 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
617 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
618 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
619 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
620 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
621 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
623 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
624 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
625 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
626 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
627 a canonical location?)
628 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
629 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
630 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
631 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
633 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
635 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
636 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
637 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
638 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
640 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
642 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
645 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
646 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
647 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
648 them. (closes Bug#26948)
649 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
650 and should not be included in this Reference.
651 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
652 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
653 maintainer tools only!
654 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
655 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
656 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
657 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
658 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
659 * Little corrections here and there.
660 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
661 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
664 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
666 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
668 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
669 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
670 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
672 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
673 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
674 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
675 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
676 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
677 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
678 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
679 do prior to uploading
680 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
681 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
683 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
684 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
685 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
686 duties with respect to bugs
687 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
688 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
689 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
691 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
692 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
693 * grammar and markup changes throughout
694 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
695 explicit what is used to build this package
697 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
699 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
702 * version number and date are automatically populated now
703 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
704 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
705 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
706 * utilize the new URL tag
707 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
710 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
712 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
714 * non-maintainer release
715 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
716 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
717 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
718 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
719 text, it can't hurt you.)
720 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
721 reflect this packages version number
722 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
724 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
726 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
730 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
732 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
734 * New version numbering scheme:
736 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
737 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
738 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
741 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
742 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
743 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
744 differ between the manuals.
746 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
747 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
748 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
749 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
751 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
752 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
754 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
756 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
758 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
762 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
763 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
765 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
766 (as requested by James Troup)
768 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
770 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
772 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
774 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
778 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
780 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
782 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
783 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
784 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
785 the non-maintainer release
787 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
788 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
789 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
792 - Lots of typos fixed
794 * Compressed SGML source code
796 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
797 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
799 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
801 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
803 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
806 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
807 - Announcing package uploads
808 * New section about Debian Mentors
809 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
810 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
811 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
812 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
814 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
816 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
818 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
819 of our FTP server and the development process
820 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
821 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
822 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
824 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
825 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
826 debian-devel before they are uploaded
827 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
828 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
829 contacting the maintainer
830 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
831 a new manual released soon)
833 * Include SGML source in package
834 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
835 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
837 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
839 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
843 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200