1 developers-reference (3.4.10) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Add recommendations to re-introduce packages. Thanks to Paul Wise for the
6 * Drop paragraph about vanilla debian/rules files which mainly points to a
7 no-longer working link.
10 * introduce epub support (Closes: #652044)
13 * Update versioning advice for uploads to stable/testing (closes: #685646).
14 * Advise to use codename-security instead of stable-security (closes:
17 [ Translation updates ]
18 * French by David Prévot.
20 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:20:49 +0200
22 developers-reference (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Clarify that removals from testing are possible. Closes: #678710
28 Thanks to Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com> for the patch.
29 * Reword various parts to be gender-neutral. Closes: #678712
30 Thanks to Per Andersson and Steve Langasek for the patch.
31 * Recommend usage of gender-neutral formulations in README-contrib.
32 * Fix Vcs-Browser URL. Thanks to Charles Plessy who spotted it.
33 * Document the existence of "hints" that release managers can
34 use to tweak the conditions of testing migration. Closes: #679562
35 Thanks to Paul Gevers <paul@climbing.nl> for the patch.
37 [ Translation updates ]
38 * Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
39 * French by David Prévot.
40 * German by Chris Leick.
43 * Fix typo: Freenodes -> Freenode. Closes: #679735
45 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:34:59 -0400
47 developers-reference (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Move away po4a handling in its own directory with a single config file.
51 * Adapt Makefile and README-contrib to the current po4a tree.
52 * Upgrades to stable should be discussed using reportbug. Thanks to Don
53 Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> for the patch.
54 Acked-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> . Closes: #670362
55 * Use UTF-8 locale to prepare the text version. Closes: #658839
56 * Delayed queue goes from 0 to 15-day. Closes: #631353
59 * Make XeTeX backend to use xCJK package only for CJK and add tipa for
60 build dependency. (See #666569). Closes: #666578
62 * Translation updates (complete)
63 - French by David Prévot.
64 - German by Chris Leick.
67 * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.3 (no change required).
68 * Switch to xz compression for source.
69 * Clean up debian/rules by using dh (with compat level 8).
70 * Drop build-dependency on latex-cjk-xcjk since xeCJK.sty is provided
71 by texlive-xetex directly.
73 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:57:23 +0200
75 developers-reference (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Document some best practices for meta-packages. Extend those for
81 transitional packages. Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna
82 <dktrkranz@debian.org> (thanks!). Closes: #569219
83 * Update license pointer to correctly point to GPL-2. Closes: #643929
84 Thanks to Luca Falavigna.
85 * Update URL of Debian Mentors FAQ. Closes: #643930
86 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
87 * Refresh some release-specific information. Closes: #643931
88 Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna.
89 * Refresh some ftpmaster-related information. Closes: #643932
90 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
91 * Update minimal GPG key length to match current requirements.
92 Closes: #643933 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
93 * Update login information for rt.debian.org. Closes: #643934
94 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
95 * Drop section about yada. Its usage is highly discouraged. Closes: #643935
96 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
97 * Update best practice about unfuzzying PO file translations to recommend
98 msguntypot. Thanks to David Prévot for the patch.
99 Acked-by Christian Perrier. Closes: #655153
102 * Add doc-base file for the German translation.
103 * Typo fix, thanks to Andreas Moog. Closes: #655096
104 * Use XeTeX backend, that fix quotes in examples. Closes: #629530
105 * Build the Japanese PDF, thanks to Osamu Aoki and the maint-guide build
108 * Translation updates (all completed)
109 - Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
110 - German by Chris Leick.
111 - French by David Prévot.
113 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:36:12 -0400
115 developers-reference (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Update the NMU rules to take into account the 0-day NMU rule
119 instituted by the release managers. Closes: #625449
122 * Update my email address.
123 * Encourage the use of RT to contact the security team.
124 Patch from Thijs Kinkhorst. Closes: #610782
125 * Document the process of returning after retirement.
126 Patch from Serafeim Zanikolas. Closes: #540249
127 * Add instructions how to mark a non-free package as auto-buildable.
128 Patch from Moritz Muehlenhoff, ACKed by Andreas Barth.
131 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:52:10 +0200
133 developers-reference (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Remove part about -v for package uploads from experimental to unstable,
139 version tracking removed that requirement.
142 * Rework section on "sponsoring packages" and include a basic
143 checklist for the sponsor. Closes: #453313
144 * Update the "Debian Developer's Duties" chapter to be more explicit
145 about duties of package maintainers. Closes: #548867
146 * Update references to merkel (which is decommissionned) where
147 needed. Closes: #619990
148 Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.
149 * Many typos fixed by Chris Leick <c.leick@vollbio.de>. Closes: #623512
152 * Initial German translation.
155 * Activate German package. Closes: #623489
156 * Update French translation.
157 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. No changes needed.
158 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets.
159 * Explicitly refer to GPL-2 file in debian/copyright.
162 * Update Japanese translation.
164 -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:56:46 -0400
166 developers-reference (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Document the new derivatives-bugs PTS keyword.
170 * Removed hp.debian.or.jp reference. Closes: 561597
173 * Update description of the PTS "summary" keyword. Thanks to
174 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #469154
175 * Add accent on my first name in debian/control.
176 * Use "3.0 (native)" source format with bzip2 compression.
177 Created debian/source/{format,options} for this.
178 * Update guideline for override change to point to BTS
179 instead of email. Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the
180 patch. Closes: #540231
181 * Include full URL to the README of the upload queue. Thanks to Simon
182 McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #540974
183 * The key protecting #debian-private is now stored on a file
184 on master.debian.org, it's no more required to search into
185 the debian-private archives. Thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
186 for the patch. Closes: #548823
187 * Update information about upload queues. Thanks to Simon McVittie
188 <smcv@debian.org> for the patches:
189 - point to official names {ftp,ssh}.upload.debian.org. Closes: #554054
190 - drop references to non-working queues. Closes: #554077
191 * Mention docbook, POD and reST as convenient formats to write new manual
192 pages. Thanks to Charles Plessy and the debian-mentors list
193 for the idea and the patch. Closes: #557298
194 * Update several sections to take into account the new source formats “3.0
195 (quilt)” and “3.0 (native)”. Closes: #561952
196 * Drop reference to “dbs” in the section about including binary files.
197 * Fix typo “transfered“ → “transferred”. Closes: #555685
198 * Fix typo “programms“ → “programs”. Closes: #560808
199 * Drop section about debmake, it has been removed of Debian since lenny.
200 * Update URL of the security tracker. Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso.
202 * Update URL of Packages-arch-specific. Closes: #553974
203 * Update section about Alioth to mention FusionForge instead of GForge.
204 Drop mention of separate cvs.debian.org it's managed by Alioth too.
206 * Document new "buildd" keyword from the PTS.
207 * Update URL explaining the "Debian Maintainer" status, it's now at
208 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer. Closes: #564414
209 * Update number of source packages. Thanks Karl Goetz. Closes: #567235
210 * Update and simplify list of architectures. Thanks Karl Goetz.
212 * Small typo fixes and clarifications/rewordings suggested by Karl Goetz.
214 * Document the notion of "team upload": it looks like an NMU but it's not
215 really one because the uploader is an implicit co-maintainer since he's
216 part of the maintenance team. Thanks to Charles Plessy for the initial
217 patch. Closes: #573110
218 * Update standards-version to 3.9.1 and add missing ${misc:Depends} in
220 * Fix debian/tocsubstvars to cope with the new way dpkg-dev handles
221 multi-lines substitution variables.
224 * Update outdated mentions, typos and tags. Closes: #578664
225 * French translation updated from the 2006 debiandoc version.
226 * Apply updated patch from Nicolas François. Closes: #257150
227 * dinstall run happens four times a day. Closes: #585161
228 * Activate Japanese package.
229 * Handle addendum if it exists.
231 -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:28:03 -0400
233 developers-reference (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Fixed working of the repackaged tarballs section to avoid giving the
236 impression that it's a standard packages must comply with. Closes:
238 * Specify that bugs from removed packages must be closed in foo+rm.
240 * Change the maintainer address to debian-policy@, based on discussion
242 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No changes needed.
243 * Update copyright notices and list of authors.
245 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:56:19 +0200
247 developers-reference (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Applied patch from Justin B Rye that improves the discussion on writing
250 package descriptions. Closes: #516436.
251 * Lenny has been released, update the list of codenames. Closes: #527008.
252 * Applied patch from Paul Wise that adds a paragraph about hostile
253 upstreams. Closes: #523985.
254 * Applied patch from Charles Plessy about providing information to the
255 ftpmasters. Closes: #526410.
256 * In the section about patch systems, mention quilt (wasn not
257 mentionned before) and describe it as the recommended patch system.
258 also mention dpatch and cdbs' patch system. drop dbs. Closes: #525668.
259 * Added a note in the wanna-build section to mention
260 http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt. Closes: #516375.
261 * Clarified NMU versioning to reflect existing practices. Closes: #532945.
262 * s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section
263 about repackaged upstream tarballs.
264 * Mention the Gandi.net hosting discount in section 4.13.
265 Applied patch from Tim Retout. Closes: #538245.
266 * Reduce length of title of L10N section so that it is no longer split.
267 Applied patch from Justin B Rye. Closes: #534688.
268 * Bumped debhelper compat level to 5 (4 was deprecated)
269 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No changes needed.
270 * Added pointer to debian-project@ post about the wanna-build team.
272 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:28:04 +0200
274 developers-reference (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
281 * Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
282 The most important changes are:
283 + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
284 + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
287 + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
288 with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
289 + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
290 distinction. Closes: #464230.
291 + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
292 + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
293 * Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
294 W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
295 * Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
296 Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
298 * Update instructions on the delayed queue.
299 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
301 * Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
302 Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
304 * Improved README.contrib. Mention command to checkout the SVN
305 version. Thanks to Christine Spang for the patch.
307 * Document usertags. Thanks to Chris Lamb for the patch.
309 * Updated documentation on translation updates.
310 Thanks to Christian Perrier for the patch.
312 * Update instructions on handling of security issues.
313 Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
314 Closes: #512620, #510783.
316 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:57:54 +0100
318 developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
322 * Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. Closes: #470754.
323 * linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.
324 * Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.
325 * Collaborative Maintenance: the 'global part' of debian/control
326 is the first paragraph, about the source package. Closes: #483231.
327 * debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.
328 * Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package.
330 * README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
332 * build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
335 [ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
336 * Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
337 * In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
338 release codenames in <literal>
339 * Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
340 doesn't exist anymore.
341 * Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
342 thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
343 * Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
344 and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
345 * Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
346 the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
347 fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandings
348 about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
349 * Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
350 distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
351 team before upload. Closes: #459343
352 * Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
353 * Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
354 need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
355 hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
356 on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806
357 * Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
358 pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
360 * Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
361 description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
363 * Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
364 have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
365 debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
366 * Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
367 ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
368 Thomas. Closes: #485837
370 + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
371 + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!
373 -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:45:49 +0200
375 developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
379 - bump standards-version to 3.7.3 (no change)
380 - fix debian/copyright
381 - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
382 - add pdf for French version.
383 * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
384 * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
385 Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
386 * Keyring now uses RT. Closes: #428846
387 * Document -dbg-packages within BPs. Thanks, Joey Hess. Closes: #420540
388 * NMUs now also close bugs. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum. Closes: #419507
389 * Fix documentation about gender neutral. Closes: #384178
390 * Fix typo. Closes: #405453
391 * More details on how to write documentation. Thanks, Josh Triplett.
393 * Add XS-Vcs-*. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli. Closes: #391023
394 * Small brushup to debconf description. Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.
396 * Document Team-Maintainence better. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum.
398 * Add link to more removal ressources. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt,
399 Justin Pryzby. Closes: #412757, #356720
400 * Repacking source packages need to be documented in copyright.
401 Thanks, Russ Allbery. Closes: #413320
402 * Better describe version of debian native packages NMUs. Closes: #405818
403 * Source, HTML and text are now encoded in UTF-8. Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
405 * Source is now DocBook XML instead of debiandoc. Closes: #374220
408 * Add a link to enrico's excellent Debian Community Guidelines.
409 * Recommend the use of DSA's request tracker instead of mailing them.
410 * Remove reference to #debian-sf, #debian-bsd which don't exist anymore. Put
411 a reference to #debian-dpkg instead.
412 * Remove all stuff concerning non-US.
413 * Update information concerning Alioth.
414 * Update information concerning the Package Tracking System.
415 * Mention Alioth as the main resource for VCS repositories and deprecate
417 * Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.
418 * Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
420 * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields pointing to the new SVN
423 -- W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:16:40 +0000
425 developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
427 * mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
429 * fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
430 * use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
432 * better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
433 the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
434 * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
436 * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
437 Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
438 * Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
440 * Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
441 Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
442 * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
443 to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
444 * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
445 * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
446 * stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
447 Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
448 Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
449 * add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
450 * add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
451 20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
453 * section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
454 Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
455 * binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
456 Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
457 * Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
458 * Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
459 * Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
460 * pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
461 * clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
462 * more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
466 - French translation updated to version 3.3.8
468 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
470 developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
473 - adjust information about distributions with reality.
474 - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
475 - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
476 - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
477 - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
478 - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
480 - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
482 - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
484 - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
486 - non-us discontinued.
487 - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
489 - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
490 Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
491 - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
492 - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
493 - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
494 - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
495 Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
496 - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
497 - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
498 - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
499 - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
500 - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
501 - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
502 - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
503 - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
504 - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
505 - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
506 - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
508 - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
509 - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
511 - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
514 - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
516 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
518 developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
521 - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
522 - madison is on merkel.
523 - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
524 - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
525 - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
526 - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
527 - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
528 - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
530 - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
531 - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
532 - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
533 - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
534 - sync NM rules with reality.
536 - French translation updated to version 3.3.6
538 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:49 -0700
540 developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
543 - uploads to more than one dist are not possible.
544 - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213
545 - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048
546 - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464
547 - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298
548 - spelling, grammer fixes.
549 Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208
550 - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968
551 - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814
552 - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021
553 - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654
554 - add myself to uploaders.
555 - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156
556 - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845
557 - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402
558 - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961
559 - add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
560 - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
561 - add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
562 - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
563 - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
564 - updated information about testing distribution. Closes: #266649.
565 - rewrote the NMU section, and
566 + made the possible severities of "target bugs" clearer. Closes: #233088.
567 + mention QA uploads. Closes: #202416.
568 + add -B for binNMUs, and local debsign usage. Closes: #208839.
569 + warning about breaking all-packages by binNMU. Closes: #213348.
570 - add information about gpg usage. Closes: #175815.
571 - make key replacement instructions more details. Closes: #275921
572 - typo and language fixes. Thanks, Era Eriksson. Closes: #277576
573 - add hints about debconf templates from Christian Perrier.
575 - Security uploads get urgency=high
576 - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
578 - French translation updated to version 3.3.5
580 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:07:26 +0100
582 developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
585 - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
586 Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
587 - updated the mailing lists section (again)
588 - documented Alioth, somewhat
590 - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
591 - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
593 - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
594 - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
595 - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
596 - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
600 - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
602 - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
603 Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
604 Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
605 bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
608 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:09:48 -0500
610 developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
613 - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
615 - updated documentation concerning the PTS
616 - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
617 - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
619 - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
620 - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
621 section on security bugs; closes: #196516
622 - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
625 - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
627 - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
628 - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
629 - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
630 - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
631 directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
633 - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
634 it clear these are special cases
635 - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
637 - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
639 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
641 developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
644 - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
645 - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
647 - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
649 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
651 developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
654 - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
656 - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
657 - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
658 - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
660 - more improvements to package synopsis and description
661 - the synopsis formula changed to either
662 <package-name> is a <synopsis>
664 <package-name> is <synopsis>
666 <package-name> are <synopsis>
668 - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
669 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
670 - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
671 - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
672 package; closes: #187143
674 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
676 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
679 - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
680 - proofread by Philippe Batailler
682 - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
684 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
685 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
686 - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
687 architecture-independent data bundled with programs
688 - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
689 kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
690 - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
691 right places in the document, closes: #172897
692 - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
696 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
698 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
699 - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
700 - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
701 table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
702 note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
703 package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
704 allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
706 - editorial changes on material added in this version
707 - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
708 - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
709 from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
710 closes: #139957, #108416
711 - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
712 emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
714 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
716 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
719 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
721 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
722 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
723 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
724 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
726 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
727 for best practices for documentation
728 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
729 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
730 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
731 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
733 - spell-checking pass
735 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
737 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
740 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
741 descriptions" moved under there
742 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
743 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
744 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
745 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
746 the document where these tools are discussed
747 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
748 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
749 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
750 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
751 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
752 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
754 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
755 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
756 that can be fixed by DDP folks
757 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
758 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
759 - simply PS and PDF building rules
761 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
763 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
766 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
767 section and adjusted links
768 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
770 - ChangeLog attribution updates
771 - fix typos, closes: #171781
772 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
773 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
774 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
775 for debian/rules", and write an intro
776 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
777 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
778 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
779 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
780 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
781 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
782 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
783 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
784 "Internationalization"
785 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
786 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
787 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
788 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
789 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
790 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
791 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
792 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
793 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
795 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
796 rather useless and broken
797 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
798 names and the first word
799 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
800 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
801 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
803 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
804 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
805 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
807 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
809 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
812 - DDP publishing update
814 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
815 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
816 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
817 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
819 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
821 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
824 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
825 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
826 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
828 - added myself as co-author
829 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
831 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
832 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
834 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
835 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
837 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
839 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
842 - Corrected several errors with —
843 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
844 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
845 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
846 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
847 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
848 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
849 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
851 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
852 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
853 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
854 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
855 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
856 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
857 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
858 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
859 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
861 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
862 descriptions". closes: #158609
863 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
864 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
865 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
866 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
867 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
869 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
870 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
871 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
872 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
873 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
874 - updated the mailing lists section
876 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
877 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
880 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
882 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
885 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
886 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
888 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
890 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
891 Ch "The Debian Archive"
893 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
895 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
896 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
897 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
898 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
899 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
901 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
902 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
903 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
904 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
905 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
906 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
907 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
909 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
910 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
913 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
914 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
915 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
916 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
917 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
918 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
919 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
920 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
921 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
922 work-around with <...>
923 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
924 - update copyright date
925 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
926 - spell check and grammar corrections
930 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
932 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
933 recompile"; closes: #102626
934 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
935 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
936 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
937 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
938 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
940 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
941 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
942 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
944 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
946 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
947 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
948 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
949 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
950 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
951 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
952 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
953 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
954 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
956 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
958 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
960 - updated the list of available architectures.
961 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
962 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
963 of the package and nothing more.
964 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
965 any pain to the ftpmasters.
966 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
967 the use of the delayed queue.
968 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
969 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
971 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
972 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
973 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
974 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
975 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
976 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
977 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
979 - new Sec "Documentation"
980 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
981 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
982 "Being kind to porter" too
983 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
984 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
985 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
986 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
987 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
989 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
990 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
993 - update French translation
995 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
997 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1000 - some grammar corrections
1001 - update French translation
1003 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
1004 anymore; closes: #135559
1005 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
1007 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
1009 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
1010 that would be welcome)
1011 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
1012 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
1013 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
1014 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
1015 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
1016 - other minor wording changes
1017 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
1018 - Ch "Package uploads":
1019 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
1020 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
1021 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
1022 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
1023 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
1024 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
1025 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
1027 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
1029 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * from Martin Michlmayr
1032 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
1033 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
1034 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
1036 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
1038 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
1040 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
1042 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
1043 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
1044 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
1045 - minor build tweaks
1047 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
1048 * from Chris Tillman
1049 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
1052 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
1054 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1057 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
1059 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
1060 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
1061 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
1062 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
1063 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
1064 talking about uploading to distributions
1065 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
1066 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
1067 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
1069 - French translation updated
1071 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
1072 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
1073 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
1075 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
1077 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
1080 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
1081 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
1084 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
1086 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * fix a typo in a link
1090 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
1091 update documentation accordingly
1093 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
1094 forwarding bugs upstream
1096 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
1097 entities which should be used
1098 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
1099 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
1101 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
1103 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
1106 * French version: completely up-to-date now
1107 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
1108 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
1110 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
1113 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
1115 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
1119 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
1120 this translation needs updating
1121 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
1122 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
1123 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
1125 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
1126 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
1127 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
1129 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
1130 included yet, however
1132 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
1134 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
1138 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
1139 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
1141 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
1143 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
1145 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
1148 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
1149 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
1151 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
1153 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
1155 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
1158 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
1159 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
1160 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
1161 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
1162 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
1163 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
1164 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
1165 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
1166 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
1167 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
1168 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
1169 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
1171 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
1172 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
1173 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
1174 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
1175 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
1177 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
1179 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
1180 * update copyright notice for 2001
1181 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
1182 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
1183 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
1185 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
1187 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
1191 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
1193 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
1195 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
1197 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
1200 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
1202 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
1203 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
1204 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
1205 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
1206 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
1207 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
1208 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
1209 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
1210 could be used if necessary
1211 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
1212 mention the rsync dupload method
1213 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
1215 * other small corrections
1216 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
1217 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
1218 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
1219 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
1221 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
1223 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
1224 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
1226 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
1228 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
1230 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
1231 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
1232 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
1233 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
1235 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
1236 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
1237 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
1238 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
1239 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
1241 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1243 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
1244 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
1245 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
1246 team (closes: Bug#52906)
1247 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
1248 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
1249 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
1251 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
1252 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
1253 - added a section about the LDAP database
1254 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
1255 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
1257 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
1258 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
1260 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
1262 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
1265 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
1266 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
1268 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
1269 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
1270 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
1271 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
1272 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
1273 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
1274 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
1275 description from developers-reference.sgml
1277 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
1279 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
1282 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
1284 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
1286 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
1287 releases are available at archive.debian.org
1288 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
1289 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
1290 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
1291 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
1292 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
1293 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
1294 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
1295 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
1297 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
1298 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
1299 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
1300 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
1302 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
1303 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
1304 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
1305 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
1306 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
1307 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
1308 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
1309 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
1310 suggestion from James Troup
1311 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
1312 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
1313 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
1314 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
1317 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
1319 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
1322 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
1324 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
1326 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
1329 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
1330 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
1331 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
1332 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
1333 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
1334 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
1336 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
1338 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
1341 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
1342 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
1343 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
1344 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
1345 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
1347 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
1348 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
1350 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
1352 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
1354 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
1358 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
1359 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
1360 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
1361 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
1362 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
1364 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
1365 with intro; demoted server sections under that
1366 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
1367 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
1369 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
1370 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
1371 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
1372 a normal developer may have access.
1374 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
1376 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
1379 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
1380 step all over each other
1382 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
1384 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
1387 address for PGP key updates
1389 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
1391 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
1394 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
1395 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
1396 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
1397 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
1399 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
1401 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
1404 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
1405 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
1406 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
1407 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
1408 <keyring-maint> instead)
1409 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
1410 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
1412 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
1414 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
1415 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
1416 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
1418 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
1420 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1422 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
1423 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
1424 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
1425 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
1426 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
1427 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
1429 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
1430 tighten up the language a bit
1431 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
1432 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
1433 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
1434 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
1436 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
1437 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
1438 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
1439 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
1440 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
1441 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
1443 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
1444 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
1445 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
1446 about how to depart Debian gracefully
1447 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
1448 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
1449 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
1450 number of available packages
1451 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
1452 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
1454 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
1456 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
1461 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
1463 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * not officially released
1466 * more spelling corrections
1467 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
1469 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
1471 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * not officially released
1474 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
1475 * some PGP-centricity removed
1476 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
1477 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
1478 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
1479 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
1480 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
1481 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
1483 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
1485 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1487 * not officially released
1488 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
1489 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
1490 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
1491 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
1492 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
1493 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
1494 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
1495 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
1496 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
1497 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
1498 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
1499 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
1500 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
1501 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
1503 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
1504 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
1506 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
1508 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
1509 take a couple of weeks
1510 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
1511 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
1512 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
1513 excited about it and can't wait
1514 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
1515 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
1517 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
1518 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
1520 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
1521 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
1522 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
1524 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
1526 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1528 * move to 3-level version number:
1529 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
1530 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
1531 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
1532 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
1533 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
1536 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
1537 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
1538 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
1540 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
1542 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
1543 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
1544 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
1545 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
1546 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
1547 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
1549 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
1551 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
1552 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
1553 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
1554 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
1555 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
1556 - "The CVS server": new section added
1557 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
1559 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
1560 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
1561 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
1562 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
1563 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
1564 with respect to GPG.
1565 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
1566 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
1567 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
1568 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
1569 a canonical location?)
1570 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
1571 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
1572 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
1573 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
1575 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
1577 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
1578 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
1579 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
1580 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
1582 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
1584 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
1587 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
1588 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
1589 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
1590 them. (closes Bug#26948)
1591 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
1592 and should not be included in this Reference.
1593 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
1594 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
1595 maintainer tools only!
1596 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
1597 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
1598 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
1599 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
1600 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
1601 * Little corrections here and there.
1602 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
1603 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
1606 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
1608 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
1611 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
1612 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
1614 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
1615 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
1616 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
1617 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
1618 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
1619 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
1620 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
1621 do prior to uploading
1622 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
1623 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
1625 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
1626 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
1627 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
1628 duties with respect to bugs
1629 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
1630 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
1631 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
1633 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
1634 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
1635 * grammar and markup changes throughout
1636 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
1637 explicit what is used to build this package
1639 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
1641 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * version number and date are automatically populated now
1645 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
1646 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
1647 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
1648 * utilize the new URL tag
1649 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
1652 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
1654 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1656 * non-maintainer release
1657 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
1658 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
1659 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
1660 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
1661 text, it can't hurt you.)
1662 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
1663 reflect this packages version number
1664 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
1666 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
1668 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1672 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
1674 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1676 * New version numbering scheme:
1678 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1679 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1680 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1683 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1684 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1685 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1686 differ between the manuals.
1688 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1689 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1690 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1691 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1693 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1694 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1696 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1698 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1700 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1704 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1705 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1707 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1708 (as requested by James Troup)
1710 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1712 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1714 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1716 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1720 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1722 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1724 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1725 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1726 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1727 the non-maintainer release
1729 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1730 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1731 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1734 - Lots of typos fixed
1736 * Compressed SGML source code
1738 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1739 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1741 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1743 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1745 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1748 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1749 - Announcing package uploads
1750 * New section about Debian Mentors
1751 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1752 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1753 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1754 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1756 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1758 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1761 of our FTP server and the development process
1762 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1763 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1764 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1766 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1767 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1768 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1769 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1770 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1771 contacting the maintainer
1772 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1773 a new manual released soon)
1774 * Some minor changes
1775 * Include SGML source in package
1776 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1777 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1779 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1781 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1785 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200
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