+2002-12-12 13:45 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.125): prepare 3.2.2
+
+2002-12-12 13:44 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.152): Sec "Upstream home page": some
+ revisions based on discussion on policy list
+
+ Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
+ for best practices for documentation
+
+ Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
+ new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
+ debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
+ covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
+ packages
+
+ spell-checking pass
+
+2002-12-12 13:42 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/rules (1.36): ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
+
+2002-12-12 13:41 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/TODO (1.6): remove some todo items which are done
+
+2002-12-09 14:26 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/: changelog (1.124), control (1.15): Policy compliance
+ checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
+
+2002-12-09 08:14 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.123): update
+
+2002-12-09 08:09 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.47): merged url-debian-mirror{s,ing}, the ftplist
+ page is deprecated and the mirror page lists all
+
+2002-12-09 08:08 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.151): slightly rewrote the mirrors
+ section and moved it below the description of the archive (seems
+ more logical)
+
+2002-12-09 03:05 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.12): update for next release
+
+2002-12-09 03:04 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.122): prepare 3.2.1
+
+2002-12-09 03:00 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * Makefile (1.21): use the debiandoc2* tools for PS and PDF
+ generation
+
+2002-12-09 02:23 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/rules (1.35): stop shipping SGML source, what's the point,
+ this is a binary pkg, the SGML doesn't have the proper build
+ depends, you can't build it in those dirs anyway -- much better to
+ do 'apt-get source developers-reference'
+
+2002-12-09 02:16 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/rules (1.34): eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure
+ it's not needed now with the DDP builder process, or if it is
+ needed, it's a probably that can be fixed by DDP folks
+
+2002-12-09 02:15 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.46), developers-reference.sgml (1.150): - Sec
+ "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
+ descriptions" moved under there
+ - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
+ - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
+ - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized
+ into
+ subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other
+ parts of
+ the document where these tools are discussed
+ - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
+ build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder,
+ devscripts
+ - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
+ infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to
+ the
+ appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
+ - README-contrib added giving information for authors,
+ contributors,
+ and translators
+
+2002-12-09 02:08 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * README-contrib (1.1): readme for contributores, including
+ translators
+
+2002-12-08 17:54 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.149): Internationalized
+ documentation had the wrong sectional capitalization
+
+2002-12-07 02:28 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.11): update for next release
+
+2002-12-07 02:27 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.121): all my recent changes, and call it
+ version 3.2
+
+2002-12-07 02:26 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.45), developers-reference.sgml (1.148): Sec "Best
+ practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit here to
+ Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include a POSIX
+ shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
+ closes: #150384
+
+2002-12-07 01:53 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * Makefile (1.20): validation suffix rule now requires version.ent
+
+2002-12-07 01:49 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.147): remove debget from tools
+ section, add notes on more tools to document
+
+2002-12-07 01:35 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/prerm (1.5): don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX,
+ hardcode /usr/sbin/install-docs
+
+2002-12-07 01:34 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/postinst (1.6): why even have a case stmt -- strip it down
+ more
+
+2002-12-07 01:26 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/rules (1.33): produce md5sums file; break out a 'test'
+ target
+
+2002-12-07 01:21 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/postinst (1.5): move configure stuff under configure case;
+ don't make usr/doc symlink
+
+2002-12-06 15:45 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.44), developers-reference.sgml (1.146): - Sec
+ "Common situations" renamed to "Common packaging situations" - Sec
+ "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
+ packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages - Sec "Writing
+ useful descriptions" heavily edited
+
+2002-12-06 05:22 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * translation-status (1.4): damn cvs keywords, inhibit
+
+2002-12-06 05:10 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.145): - Ch "Packaging Practices"
+ rewritten intro - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to
+ "Best Practices for debian/rules", and write an intro - Sec
+ "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving arguments
+ for and against debhelper, mostly for :) - Sec "Package with
+ multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source versus patching at
+ build time" and rewritten - Sec "Multiple binary packages"
+ rewritten - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
+ "Internationalization" section, and some edits - Sec
+ "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
+ "Internationalization" - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed
+ to "Common Situations" - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake"
+ rewritten - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in
+ practices chapter
+
+2002-12-06 05:00 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * translation-status (1.3): retab, no content changes
+
+2002-12-06 04:59 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * translation-status (1.2): adapt script to local context, strip
+ out useless -V option too
+
+2002-12-06 04:56 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.43): doc-check reference for best-practices, doc
+ translations
+
+2002-12-06 04:50 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.desc (1.11): expand the doc-base abstract
+ and authors
+
+2002-12-06 04:49 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * translation-status (1.1): translation status checking tool, based
+ on documentation/doc-check from boot-floppies source, rev 1.12
+
+2002-12-05 18:21 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.144): fix typo, closes: #171781
+
+2002-12-05 16:19 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.143): typo fix, thanks Alfie Costa
+
+2002-12-03 11:36 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.120): update
+
+2002-12-03 11:30 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.142): added spaces between ©
+ and the first year (wonder if that was intentional?); merged a bit
+ misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian section and
+ adjusted links; added the missing description of dh-make and
+ adjusted links
+
+2002-11-27 21:17 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.10): update for next release
+
+2002-11-27 21:16 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.119): prepare 3.1.2
+
+2002-11-27 21:14 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.141): Sec "Handling debconf
+ translations", updates from Martin Quinson for po-debconf with
+ minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
+
+2002-11-27 19:40 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.desc (1.10): doc-base file includes French
+ and Japanese files
+
+2002-11-27 19:40 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.140): debsign invocation was
+ slightly wrong, closes: #170523
+
+2002-11-18 14:53 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * Makefile (1.19): updated PUBLISHDIR
+
+2002-11-12 23:23 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.9): update for next release
+
+2002-11-12 23:18 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.118): finalize version 3.1.1
+
+2002-11-11 15:38 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.42), developers-reference.sgml (1.139),
+ debian/changelog (1.117): fix some bad URLs, notably the testing
+ FAQ -- checkbot reports all is well now
+
+2002-11-11 13:40 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.138), debian/changelog (1.116): fix
+ a grammar typo, closes: #166098
+
+2002-11-11 13:37 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.115): don't use caps or fullstops in
+ changelog entries -- a bug I fixed
+
+2002-11-11 13:33 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.41): fix bad debian emacs policy, closes: #168357
+
+2002-10-21 12:07 Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.137), debian/changelog (1.114):
+ Security updates
+
+2002-10-10 17:09 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.136): the version of dpkg-dev that
+ supports this feature is no longer new, so skip that; also
+ rephrased the sentence better while i was at it
+
+2002-10-10 17:01 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.113): update
+
+2002-10-10 17:00 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.40), developers-reference.sgml (1.135):
+ fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs. this should probably
+ address the issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing
+ stuff.
+
+2002-09-21 10:58 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.134), debian/changelog (1.112): -
+ Added myself as co-author. - Fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative
+ maintenance". Closes: #161488
+
+2002-09-19 07:01 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.111): update for my last change
+
+2002-09-19 06:50 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.39), developers-reference.sgml (1.133): updated IRC
+ stuff based on patch from SynrG, closes: #161403
+
+2002-09-11 12:32 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.132): tagging improvements and
+ editorial improvements in config-wise-debconf
+
+2002-09-10 22:02 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.8): update for next release
+
+2002-09-10 21:58 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.110): my changes
+
+2002-09-10 21:56 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.131): spell checking, tag fixes,
+ editorial review -- no new content
+
+2002-09-09 06:08 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.130): - Also mentions sending patchs
+ in the BSP section.
+
+2002-09-09 05:46 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.129), debian/changelog (1.109):
+ - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
+
+2002-09-08 14:42 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.38), developers-reference.sgml (1.128),
+ debian/changelog (1.108): - Added the explanation about how to
+ replace an .orig.tar.gz. closes: #150392 - Mostly deleted the
+ paragraph about security upload in the section explaining source
+ NMU. Just added a link to point to "Handling security-related
+ bugs". closes: #159935 - Added a link to the Technical Committee
+ web page (in the "Bug housekeeping" section). closes: #151365 -
+ Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
+ stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666 Removed the
+ comment about uploads to frozen. - Documented the "Developer's
+ packages overview" web portal. closes: #158650 - Added a
+ reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
+ descriptions". closes: #158609 - Added a Best Packaging Practice
+ section for "Packages using autoconf/automake". closes: #158045 -
+ Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
+ replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
+
+2002-09-03 06:44 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.127): updated the
+ when-to-do-source-NMUs section a little bit, prompted by Elie
+ Rosenblum's complaint on -devel
+
+2002-08-29 11:47 Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.126): Update security instructions
+ to specify that uploads should not be made to the security queue
+ without approval Misc fixes and cleanups to security section
+
+2002-08-29 11:36 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.37), developers-reference.sgml (1.125),
+ debian/changelog (1.107): * Applied patch from Matt Zimmerman for
+ handling security related bugs.
+
+2002-08-17 15:37 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.124): renamed the testing scripts
+ section to a more generic testing distribution, and added missing
+ <em>s around some references to it (which were potentially
+ confusing without that)
+
+2002-08-17 15:22 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.123): HTTP is not just usually, it's
+ always
+
+2002-08-17 13:31 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.36), developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.32),
+ developers-reference.ja.sgml (1.11), developers-reference.sgml
+ (1.122): oopsie, that URL was pointing to the wrong place :)
+
+2002-08-16 11:26 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.106): update
+
+2002-08-16 10:39 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.35): changed needlessly FTP URIs to HTTP; added
+ debian-project
+
+2002-08-16 10:23 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.121): rewrote the mailing lists
+ section to have logical subsections; expanded on the meanings of
+ the core mailing lists
+
+2002-08-16 07:34 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.105): update
+
+2002-08-16 07:30 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.34), developers-reference.sgml (1.120): following
+ Ryan Murray's advice, removed servers' real names and used only
+ service names.
+
+2002-08-07 07:58 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.104): updated
+
+2002-08-07 07:57 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.33), developers-reference.sgml (1.119): updated
+ (people.d.o->gluck), expanded (non-US) and mostly rewrote the
+ Debian servers section
+
+2002-08-07 06:52 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.103): added some of my June 20th changes to
+ the changelog
+
+2002-06-24 15:28 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.118), debian/changelog (1.102): *
+ Applied several patches.
+
+2002-06-20 16:59 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.117): language fixes in a paragraph
+
+2002-06-20 16:34 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.116): linguistic fixes from David
+ Kimdon; other proofreading by myself, mostly changing he -> they
+
+2002-06-19 15:58 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.115), debian/changelog (1.101): *
+ New changelog entry. * Fixed some entities (missing ";" in
+ "—"). * Applied patch from Peter Palfrader. closes: #150427
+
+2002-06-19 15:16 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.114): removed obsolete, needless
+ dupload variables
+
+2002-06-15 20:30 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.113): * Sec "Writing useful
+ descriptions". Added a sentence about the capitalization of the
+ first letter.
+
+2002-06-14 02:27 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.7): update for next release
+
+2002-06-14 02:26 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.100): my changes; standardize Raphael's
+ changelog entries
+
+2002-06-14 02:19 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.112): populate Sec "Collaborative
+ maintenance"
+
+2002-06-14 01:15 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.111): spelling fixes and some
+ awkward wordings fixed
+
+2002-06-14 00:29 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/TODO (1.5): more notes to myself, many probably obsolete
+
+2002-06-10 03:31 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.32), developers-reference.sgml (1.110),
+ debian/changelog (1.99): - Integrated Sec "Handling debconf
+ translations" contributed by Denis Barbier. Thanks Denis !
+
+2002-06-08 16:29 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.31), developers-reference.sgml (1.109),
+ debian/changelog (1.98): - Completed Sec "Package with multiple
+ patches", "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other
+ specific packages", "The wise use of debconf". All those are
+ quite simplistic, they can be improved ...
+
+2002-05-23 20:17 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.30), developers-reference.sgml (1.108),
+ debian/changelog (1.97): - Completed Sec "Voting" - Completed Sec
+ "Documentation" - Added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources
+ chapter. - Added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the
+ being kind to porter too. - Extended the explanation about
+ devscripts. - Completed Sec "Helper scripts"
+
+2002-05-23 16:03 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.107), debian/changelog (1.96): -
+ Completed Sec Bug housekeeping. closes: #39519 - Stubbed sections
+ for all ideas for "Best Packaging Practices". We have to either
+ fill them or comment them out. I've put some notes about the
+ content of each of those sections to help the writers.
+
+2002-05-12 04:36 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.106): - Fixed the URL in Sec "Bug
+ Reporting"
+
+2002-05-11 23:33 Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.ja.sgml (1.10): Sorry, this bugs broke DDP
+ site build process.
+
+ I saw simple typos (missing ";") and <ftppath>-tags which does not
+ exist in English. This was good iontension but used in conflict
+ with the current common.ent.
+
+ I hopefully used 8-bit clean editor (vimand mcedit in LC_ALL=C).
+ I do not have LANG=ja_JP in my system :( Shame on me.
+
+ Now DDP site shall build :)
+
+2002-05-11 16:10 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.29), developers-reference.sgml (1.105),
+ debian/changelog (1.95): entity'ize master.debian.org,
+ us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
+
+ tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
+ directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
+ work-around with <...>
+
+ fix some awkward working from recent updates
+
+2002-05-10 16:27 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.104): * Sec "Writing useful
+ descriptions": added a blurb about spell-checking.
+
+2002-05-09 18:24 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.103), debian/changelog (1.94): - Sec
+ "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from Francesco
+ Paolo Lovergine. Heavily updated by myself. - New Section
+ "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by Francesco Paolo
+ Lovergine. Slightly updated by myself.
+
+2002-05-09 13:43 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.28), developers-reference.sgml (1.102),
+ debian/changelog (1.93): - Various spelling fixes. - Sec
+ "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
+ login@debian.org. - Update the total number of packages and the
+ example directory tree of a Debian archive. - Updated the list
+ of available architectures. - Commented out the "Subsections"
+ section since it will RSN have nothing to with the Debian
+ archive. It's just a generic information field of the package and
+ nothing more. - Added more incentive to use experimental since it
+ doesn't cause any pains to the ftpmasters. - Sec "When to do a
+ source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest the use of
+ the delayed queue. - New Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to
+ explain the need to integrate the changes introduced by NMUs.
+ Insists on the fact that one shouldn't be upset by a NMU. -
+ Stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance". - Stubbed in
+ new Section "The Package Tracking System".
+
+2002-05-09 05:45 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.27), developers-reference.sgml (1.101),
+ debian/changelog (1.92): - Sec "The Incoming system" in
+ "Resources", describe how it works and also speak of the DELAYED
+ directory. closes: #135562, #136774
+
+2002-05-08 18:27 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.26), developers-reference.sgml (1.100),
+ debian/changelog (1.91): - Explain to reassign/close bugs of
+ removed packages. closes: #130255 - Updates the note about software
+ subject to US patents. closes: #142798 - New Section "Contacting
+ other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging" Document the
+ package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553 - New Section
+ "Package's information" under Resources Document
+ http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
+ http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility. - Sec
+ "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com -
+ Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
+
+2002-05-08 16:07 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.90): standardizing some of Raphael's entries
+
+2002-05-08 11:34 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.25), developers-reference.sgml (1.99),
+ debian/changelog (1.89): - Indicated that the list of subsections
+ is defined in the policy. Closes: #123586 - Removed some cruft
+ in `Announcing package uploads'. - Document the testing scripts.
+ Closes: #129445
+
+2002-05-08 06:29 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.98), debian/changelog (1.88): -
+ Added best packaging practices chapter. - Added "Writing useful
+ descriptions" as a first entry in that chapter. Closes: #53109,
+ #129848
+
+2002-05-07 18:39 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.97): - Little typo: s/you/your/.
+
+2002-05-06 23:37 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.96), debian/changelog (1.87): trim
+ the bad submit-bugs chapter; s/GPG/GnuPG/
+
+2002-05-06 23:09 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.95), debian/changelog (1.86): spell
+ check and some awkward grammar
+
+2002-05-06 22:52 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.85): cosmetics and Antoine's updates
+
+2002-05-06 19:25 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.94), debian/changelog (1.84): -
+ Changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line. - Remove
+ all references explaining that the upstream orig tarball can be
+ changed during lifetime. - Deleted "binary NMU" when we really
+ mean "porter upload" or "simple recompile". - Elaborated more
+ about "binary-only NMU". - Detail more things about the removal of
+ package. - Fix other issues from #102626.
+
+2002-05-06 10:59 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.31): Finally in sync with 1.91
+ (aph updated the original before me).
+
+2002-05-06 10:54 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.93): Small changes.
+
+2002-05-06 10:38 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.83): new stubbed section I missed
+
+2002-05-06 10:32 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.82): recent changes
+
+2002-05-06 10:31 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.30): Synchronized with 1.92.
+
+2002-05-06 10:29 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.24), developers-reference.sgml (1.92): - new
+ Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
+ the former chapters
+ Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
+ Ch "The Debian Archive"
+
+ - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former
+ chapters
+ Ch "Package uploads"
+ Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
+ Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
+ Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
+ Packages"
+ Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
+ Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
+
+ - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
+ to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
+ Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
+ Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
+ Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
+ Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
+ Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
+
+ - Sec "Voting" stubbed in Developer Duties
+ - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
+
+2002-05-06 10:28 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * Makefile (1.18): depend for developers-reference.html/*
+
+2002-05-05 16:44 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.91), debian/changelog (1.81): -
+ new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" for recommended ways to contribute
+ to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; Ch
+ "Interaction with
+ Prospective Developers" moved into this chapter and renamed
+ to Sec
+ "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
+ - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
+ - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
+
+2002-05-05 14:12 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.90): chapter titles need caps
+
+2002-05-05 14:10 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.80): recent changes
+
+2002-05-05 14:10 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/control (1.14): add hertzog as co-maintainer
+
+2002-05-05 14:10 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.89): - Sec "Getting started":
+ link to New Maintainers' Guide
+ - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and
+ Sponsors",
+ we add some info on sponsoring
+
+2002-05-05 14:09 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.23): newmaint guide and sponsor coordination page
+
+2002-05-03 13:21 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/: changelog (1.79), control (1.13): makefile change; manoj
+ is a co-maintainer
+
+2002-05-03 13:20 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * Makefile (1.17): simplifications to the tex prefix rules; they
+ are completely irrelevant now though since debiandoc-sgml does it
+ right
+
+2002-04-13 18:46 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.29): Small corrections.
+
+2002-04-13 18:18 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.28): Synchronized with 1.88.
+
+2002-04-13 18:14 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.88): Miscellaneous corrections
+
+2002-04-08 02:57 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.6): update for next release
+
+2002-04-08 02:57 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/TODO (1.4): yet more todo
+
+2002-04-08 02:53 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/TODO (1.3): more todo
+
+2002-04-08 02:35 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.87), debian/changelog (1.78):
+ - dpkg-dev-el: new section
+ - Ch "Package uploads":
+ - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
+ - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
+ - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
+ - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
+ - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
+ - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
+
+2002-04-08 01:44 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.86), debian/changelog (1.77): Sec
+ "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
+
+2002-04-08 01:33 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.85): FIXME for more programs to
+ document
+
+2002-04-08 01:23 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.84), debian/changelog (1.76): -
+ Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
+ - improve the intro
+ - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
+ - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get
+ info on the dh-* pkgs
+ - dput: new section, closes: #129378
+ - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
+ - other minor wording changes
+
+2002-04-07 03:02 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.75): recent changes
+
+2002-04-01 10:50 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.83): Charles Briscoe-Smith
+ deprecates yada
+
+2002-03-31 17:09 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.74): changes for next version, not yet ready
+ for release though
+
+2002-03-31 17:08 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.82): from Martin Michlmayr: changes
+ in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming anymore,
+ talk about dput a bit; closes: #135559
+
+2002-03-15 13:14 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.27): Increment the cvs-en-rev
+ entity
+
+2002-03-15 12:45 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * common.ent (1.22), developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.26),
+ developers-reference.sgml (1.81): Miscellaneous corrections
+
+2002-03-11 17:03 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.25): Synchronized with version
+ 1.80
+
+2002-02-24 15:03 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.5): update for next release
+
+2002-02-24 14:57 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.73): prepare 2.10.0
+
+2002-02-24 14:51 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/copyright (1.4): fix a typo
+
+2002-02-24 14:51 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.24), developers-reference.ja.sgml
+ (1.9): use new language-independant entities
+
+2002-02-24 14:49 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.21), developers-reference.sgml (1.80): isolate a
+ few more language-independent bits; change /usr/doc to
+ /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright, closes: #126924
+
+2002-02-24 14:32 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.20), developers-reference.sgml (1.79): some
+ suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
+ closes: #133953; use a new entity, debian-formal for the term
+
+2002-02-24 14:15 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * Makefile (1.16): distclean, and clean is cleaner
+
+2002-02-24 14:13 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.19), developers-reference.sgml (1.78): purge
+ references to 'frozen' distribution, which doesn't exist anymore
+
+2002-02-24 12:48 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.77): bugs closed in NMUs should uses
+ 'closes' changelog entries, closes: #133951
+
+2002-02-24 12:40 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * common.ent (1.18), developers-reference.sgml (1.76): update the
+ "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with review by
+ Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
+
+2002-02-24 11:56 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.75): some minor cosmetics
+
+2002-02-23 10:22 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.74): Added ';' at the end of an
+ entity.
+
+2002-02-20 17:53 Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.73): added a section on how to deal
+ with unreachable (maybe-MIA) maintainers
+
+2001-12-27 01:48 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.23): Synchronised with 1.72 (no
+ real change needed, updated french version number)
+
+2001-12-26 08:00 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.72): wrong tense, noticed by Chris
+ Tillman
+
+2001-12-19 05:55 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.22): Modified translation of
+ 'General Public license'
+
+2001-12-17 18:41 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.21): Last modifications reviewed
+ by P. Batailler
+
+2001-12-12 08:46 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.20): Miscellaneous changes to
+ enhance overall coherence of the french translations
+
+2001-12-12 02:18 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.19): Synchronised with 1.71
+
+2001-12-09 07:55 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
+
+ * developers-reference.sgml (1.71): mention how the vacation
+ notices should include [VAC] in the subject; change the full stop
+ into an exclamation sign in the sentence about removing the
+ on-vacation flag, many people forget this (i myself had the flag
+ turned on for weeks after return at one time :)
+
+2001-11-05 23:22 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.18): Removed some mistakes.
+
+2001-10-27 01:56 Antoine Hulin <antoine@origan.fdn.fr>
+
+ * developers-reference.fr.sgml (1.17): Synchronised with 1.70.
+
+2001-10-21 01:24 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * Makefile (1.15): clean is cleaner
+
+2001-10-21 01:06 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * debian/changelog (1.72): perpare next version as 2.9.0
+
+2001-10-21 00:57 Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
+
+ * ChangeLog (1.4): update for next release
+
2001-10-18 15:37 Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>
* developers-reference.sgml (1.70): further cleanups in the section
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