1 developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
4 - bump standards-version to 3.7.2 (no change)
6 - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
7 - add pdf for French version.
8 * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
9 * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
10 Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
11 * Keyring now uses RT. Closes: #428846
12 * Document -dbg-packages within BPs. Thanks, Joey Hess. Closes: #420540
13 * NMUs now also close bugs. Thanks, Lucas Nussbaum. Closes: #419507
14 * Fix documentation about gender neutral. Closes: #384178
15 * Fix typo. Closes: #405453
16 * More details on how to write documentation. Thanks, Josh Triplett.
18 * Add XS-Vcs-*. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli. Closes: #391023
20 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:41:41 -0600
22 developers-reference (3.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
24 * mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
26 * fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
27 * use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
29 * better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
30 the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
31 * irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
33 * Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
34 Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
35 * Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
37 * Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
38 Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
39 * Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
40 to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
41 * Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
42 * delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
43 * stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
44 Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
45 Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
46 * add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
47 * add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
48 20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
50 * section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
51 Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
52 * binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
53 Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
54 * Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
55 * Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
56 * Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
57 * pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
58 * clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
59 * more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
63 - French translation updated to version 3.3.8
65 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:55:44 -0700
67 developers-reference (3.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
70 - adjust information about distributions with reality.
71 - add note on alioth accounts. Thanks, Phillip Kern. Closes: #306630
72 - correct manpage section of dpkg-scanpackages. Closes: #297069
73 - fix RFC 2440 URL. Closes: #308103
74 - add $arch@buildd information. Closes: #295483
75 - link to keyring.d.o for key replacement. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
77 - add information about Packages-arch-specific. Thanks, Frank Küster.
79 - add hint about LWN subscription. Thanks, Martin Michlmayr.
81 - more about debconf-style translation. Thanks, Christian Perrier.
83 - non-us discontinued.
84 - document nmu changes wrt version tracking. Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
86 - fix spelling issues. Thanks to various people.
87 Closes: #336146, #326857, #338660
88 - update menu policy helpers. Thanks, Florian Ernst. Closes: #340024
89 - send mia-mail to mia@qa. Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #341568
90 - Joerg Jaspert is now freenode contact. Closes: #344303
91 - give a clearer description of the gpg v4-key issues. Thanks,
92 Martin Michlmayr and Peter Palfrader. Closes: #317411
93 - more verbose about Homepage. Closes: #339826
94 - add sarge and etch. Closes: #327682
95 - document severity of RoM-request bugs. Closes: #305947
96 - update FSF address. Closes: #334820
97 - fix P-a-s link. Closes: #341195
98 - reflect binNMU changes. Closes: #349493
99 - new security upload queue. Closes: #352749
100 - fix experimental's sources.list entry. Closes: #347229
101 - remove deprecated "Closes:..." to ACK NMU bug fixes. Closes: #353447
102 - when resigning, gpg-sign your mail. Closes: #348160
103 - make pristine source and repackaged origtargz anchors work.
105 - same number of RC bugs is ok. Closes: #351944
106 - dpkg-source doesn't keep permissions. Thanks, Enrico Zini.
108 - also mention aspell. Closes: #320981
111 - French translation updated to version 3.3.7, proofread by Bernard Adrian
113 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:31:52 -0600
115 developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
118 - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
119 - madison is on merkel.
120 - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
121 - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
122 - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
123 - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
124 - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
125 - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
127 - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
128 - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
129 - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
130 - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
131 - sync NM rules with reality.
133 - French translation updated to version 3.3.6
135 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:08:49 -0700
137 developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
140 - uploads to more than one dist are not possible.
141 - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213
142 - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048
143 - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464
144 - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298
145 - spelling, grammer fixes.
146 Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208
147 - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968
148 - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814
149 - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021
150 - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654
151 - add myself to uploaders.
152 - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156
153 - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845
154 - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402
155 - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961
156 - add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
157 - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
158 - add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
159 - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
160 - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
161 - updated information about testing distribution. Closes: #266649.
162 - rewrote the NMU section, and
163 + made the possible severities of "target bugs" clearer. Closes: #233088.
164 + mention QA uploads. Closes: #202416.
165 + add -B for binNMUs, and local debsign usage. Closes: #208839.
166 + warning about breaking all-packages by binNMU. Closes: #213348.
167 - add information about gpg usage. Closes: #175815.
168 - make key replacement instructions more details. Closes: #275921
169 - typo and language fixes. Thanks, Era Eriksson. Closes: #277576
170 - add hints about debconf templates from Christian Perrier.
172 - Security uploads get urgency=high
173 - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
175 - French translation updated to version 3.3.5
177 -- Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:07:26 +0100
179 developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
182 - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
183 Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
184 - updated the mailing lists section (again)
185 - documented Alioth, somewhat
187 - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
188 - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
190 - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
191 - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
192 - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
193 - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
197 - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
199 - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
200 Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
201 Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
202 bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
205 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:09:48 -0500
207 developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
210 - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
212 - updated documentation concerning the PTS
213 - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
214 - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
216 - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
217 - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
218 section on security bugs; closes: #196516
219 - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
222 - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
224 - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
225 - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
226 - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
227 - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
228 directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
230 - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
231 it clear these are special cases
232 - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
234 - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
236 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
238 developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
241 - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
242 - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
244 - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
246 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
248 developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
251 - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
253 - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
254 - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
255 - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
257 - more improvements to package synopsis and description
258 - the synopsis formula changed to either
259 <package-name> is a <synopsis>
261 <package-name> is <synopsis>
263 <package-name> are <synopsis>
265 - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
266 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
267 - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
268 - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
269 package; closes: #187143
271 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
273 developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
276 - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
277 - proofread by Philippe Batailler
279 - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
281 - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448
282 - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
283 - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
284 architecture-independent data bundled with programs
285 - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
286 kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
287 - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
288 right places in the document, closes: #172897
289 - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
293 - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
295 - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
296 - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
297 - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
298 table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
299 note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
300 package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
301 allowed; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
303 - editorial changes on material added in this version
304 - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
305 - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
306 from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
307 closes: #139957, #108416
308 - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
309 emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
311 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
313 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
316 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
318 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
319 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
320 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
321 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
323 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
324 for best practices for documentation
325 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
326 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
327 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
328 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
330 - spell-checking pass
332 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
334 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
337 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
338 descriptions" moved under there
339 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
340 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
341 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
342 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
343 the document where these tools are discussed
344 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
345 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
346 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
347 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
348 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
349 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
351 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
352 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
353 that can be fixed by DDP folks
354 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
355 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
356 - simply PS and PDF building rules
358 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
360 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
363 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
364 section and adjusted links
365 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
367 - ChangeLog attribution updates
368 - fix typos, closes: #171781
369 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
370 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
371 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
372 for debian/rules", and write an intro
373 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
374 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
375 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
376 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
377 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
378 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
379 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
380 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
381 "Internationalization"
382 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
383 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
384 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
385 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
386 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
387 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
388 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
389 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
390 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
392 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
393 rather useless and broken
394 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
395 names and the first word
396 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
397 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
398 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
400 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
401 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
402 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
404 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
406 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
409 - DDP publishing update
411 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
412 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
413 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
414 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
416 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
418 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
421 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
422 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
423 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
425 - added myself as co-author
426 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
428 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
429 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
431 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
432 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
434 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
436 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
439 - Corrected several errors with —
440 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
441 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
442 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
443 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
444 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
445 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
446 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
448 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
449 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
450 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
451 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
452 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
453 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
454 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
455 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
456 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
458 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
459 descriptions". closes: #158609
460 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
461 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
462 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
463 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
464 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
466 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
467 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
468 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
469 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
470 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
471 - updated the mailing lists section
473 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
474 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
477 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
479 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
482 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
483 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
485 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
487 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
488 Ch "The Debian Archive"
490 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
492 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
493 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
494 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
495 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
496 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
498 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
499 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
500 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
501 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
502 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
503 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
504 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
506 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
507 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
510 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
511 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
512 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
513 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
514 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
515 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
516 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
517 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
518 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
519 work-around with <...>
520 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
521 - update copyright date
522 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
523 - spell check and grammar corrections
527 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
529 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
530 recompile"; closes: #102626
531 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
532 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
533 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
534 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
535 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
537 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
538 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
539 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
541 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
543 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
544 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
545 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
546 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
547 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
548 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
549 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
550 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
551 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
553 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
555 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
557 - updated the list of available architectures.
558 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
559 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
560 of the package and nothing more.
561 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
562 any pain to the ftpmasters.
563 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
564 the use of the delayed queue.
565 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
566 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
568 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
569 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
570 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
571 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
572 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
573 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
574 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
576 - new Sec "Documentation"
577 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
578 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
579 "Being kind to porter" too
580 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
581 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
582 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
583 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
584 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
586 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
587 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
590 - update French translation
592 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
594 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
597 - some grammar corrections
598 - update French translation
600 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
601 anymore; closes: #135559
602 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
604 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
606 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
607 that would be welcome)
608 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
609 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
610 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
611 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
612 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
613 - other minor wording changes
614 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
615 - Ch "Package uploads":
616 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
617 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
618 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
619 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
620 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
621 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
622 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
624 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
626 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
628 * from Martin Michlmayr
629 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
630 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
631 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
633 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
635 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
637 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
639 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
640 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
641 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
644 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
646 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
649 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
651 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
654 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
656 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
657 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
658 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
659 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
660 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
661 talking about uploading to distributions
662 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
663 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
664 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
666 - French translation updated
668 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
669 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
670 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
672 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
674 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
677 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
678 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
681 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
683 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
686 * fix a typo in a link
687 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
688 update documentation accordingly
690 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
691 forwarding bugs upstream
693 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
694 entities which should be used
695 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
696 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
698 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
700 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
702 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
703 * French version: completely up-to-date now
704 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
705 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
707 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
710 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
712 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
714 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
716 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
717 this translation needs updating
718 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
719 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
720 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
722 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
723 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
724 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
726 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
727 included yet, however
729 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
731 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
733 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
735 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
736 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
738 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
740 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
742 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
744 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
745 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
746 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
748 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
750 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
752 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
755 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
756 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
757 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
758 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
759 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
760 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
761 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
762 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
763 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
764 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
765 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
766 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
768 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
769 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
770 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
771 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
772 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
774 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
776 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
777 * update copyright notice for 2001
778 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
779 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
780 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
782 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
784 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
786 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
788 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
790 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
792 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
794 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
797 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
799 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
800 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
801 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
802 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
803 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
804 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
805 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
806 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
807 could be used if necessary
808 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
809 mention the rsync dupload method
810 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
812 * other small corrections
813 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
814 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
815 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
816 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
818 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
820 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
821 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
823 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
825 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
827 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
828 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
829 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
830 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
832 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
833 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
834 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
835 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
836 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
838 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
840 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
841 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
842 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
843 team (closes: Bug#52906)
844 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
845 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
846 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
848 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
849 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
850 - added a section about the LDAP database
851 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
852 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
854 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
855 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
857 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
859 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
862 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
863 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
865 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
866 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
867 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
868 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
869 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
870 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
871 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
872 description from developers-reference.sgml
874 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
876 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
878 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
879 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
881 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
883 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
884 releases are available at archive.debian.org
885 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
886 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
887 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
888 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
889 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
890 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
891 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
892 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
894 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
895 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
896 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
897 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
899 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
900 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
901 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
902 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
903 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
904 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
905 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
906 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
907 suggestion from James Troup
908 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
909 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
910 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
911 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
914 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
916 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
918 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
919 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
921 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
923 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
925 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
926 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
927 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
928 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
929 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
930 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
931 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
933 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
935 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
938 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
939 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
940 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
941 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
942 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
944 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
945 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
947 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
949 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
951 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
953 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
955 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
956 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
957 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
958 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
959 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
961 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
962 with intro; demoted server sections under that
963 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
964 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
966 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
967 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
968 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
969 a normal developer may have access.
971 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
973 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
975 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
976 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
977 step all over each other
979 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
981 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
983 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
984 address for PGP key updates
986 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
988 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
991 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
992 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
993 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
994 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
996 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
998 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
1001 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
1002 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
1003 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
1004 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
1005 <keyring-maint> instead)
1006 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
1007 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
1009 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
1011 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
1012 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
1013 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
1015 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
1017 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1019 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
1020 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
1021 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
1022 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
1023 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
1024 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
1026 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
1027 tighten up the language a bit
1028 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
1029 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
1030 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
1031 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
1033 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
1034 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
1035 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
1036 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
1037 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
1038 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
1040 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
1041 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
1042 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
1043 about how to depart Debian gracefully
1044 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
1045 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
1046 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
1047 number of available packages
1048 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
1049 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
1051 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
1053 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
1058 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
1060 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * not officially released
1063 * more spelling corrections
1064 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
1066 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
1068 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * not officially released
1071 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
1072 * some PGP-centricity removed
1073 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
1074 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
1075 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
1076 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
1077 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
1078 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
1080 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
1082 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1084 * not officially released
1085 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
1086 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
1087 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
1088 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
1089 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
1090 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
1091 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
1092 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
1093 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
1094 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
1095 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
1096 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
1097 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
1098 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
1100 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
1101 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
1103 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
1105 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
1106 take a couple of weeks
1107 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
1108 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
1109 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
1110 excited about it and can't wait
1111 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
1112 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
1114 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
1115 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
1117 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
1118 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
1119 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
1121 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
1123 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1125 * move to 3-level version number:
1126 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
1127 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
1128 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
1129 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
1130 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
1133 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
1134 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
1135 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
1137 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
1139 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
1140 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
1141 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
1142 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
1143 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
1144 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
1146 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
1148 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
1149 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
1150 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
1151 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
1152 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
1153 - "The CVS server": new section added
1154 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
1156 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
1157 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
1158 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
1159 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
1160 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
1161 with respect to GPG.
1162 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
1163 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
1164 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
1165 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
1166 a canonical location?)
1167 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
1168 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
1169 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
1170 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
1172 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
1174 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
1175 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
1176 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
1177 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
1179 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
1181 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
1184 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
1185 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
1186 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
1187 them. (closes Bug#26948)
1188 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
1189 and should not be included in this Reference.
1190 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
1191 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
1192 maintainer tools only!
1193 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
1194 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
1195 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
1196 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
1197 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
1198 * Little corrections here and there.
1199 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
1200 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
1203 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
1205 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
1208 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
1209 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
1211 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
1212 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
1213 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
1214 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
1215 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
1216 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
1217 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
1218 do prior to uploading
1219 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
1220 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
1222 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
1223 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
1224 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
1225 duties with respect to bugs
1226 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
1227 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
1228 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
1230 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
1231 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
1232 * grammar and markup changes throughout
1233 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
1234 explicit what is used to build this package
1236 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
1238 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * version number and date are automatically populated now
1242 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
1243 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
1244 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
1245 * utilize the new URL tag
1246 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
1249 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
1251 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1253 * non-maintainer release
1254 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
1255 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
1256 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
1257 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
1258 text, it can't hurt you.)
1259 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
1260 reflect this packages version number
1261 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
1263 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
1265 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1269 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
1271 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1273 * New version numbering scheme:
1275 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1276 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1277 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1280 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1281 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1282 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1283 differ between the manuals.
1285 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1286 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1287 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1288 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1290 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1291 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1293 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
1295 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
1297 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1301 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1302 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1304 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1305 (as requested by James Troup)
1307 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1309 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1311 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1313 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1317 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1319 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1321 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1322 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1323 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1324 the non-maintainer release
1326 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1327 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1328 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1331 - Lots of typos fixed
1333 * Compressed SGML source code
1335 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1336 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1338 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1340 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1342 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1345 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1346 - Announcing package uploads
1347 * New section about Debian Mentors
1348 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1349 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1350 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1351 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1353 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1355 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1358 of our FTP server and the development process
1359 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1360 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1361 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1363 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1364 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1365 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1366 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1367 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1368 contacting the maintainer
1369 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1370 a new manual released soon)
1371 * Some minor changes
1372 * Include SGML source in package
1373 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1374 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1376 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1378 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1382 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200