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
+ - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
+ for one package
- Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
- Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
- purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
- misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
- change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
+ - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
+ directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
+ work-around with <...>
+ - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
- update copyright date
- some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
+ - spell check and grammar corrections
+ - s/GPG/GnuPG/
+
+ * Raphael Hertzog:
+ - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
+ closes: #110310
+ - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
+ recompile"; closes: #102626
+ - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
+ - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
+ Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
+ chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
+ - indicate 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
+ - explain how 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
+ - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
+ also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
+ - 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 pain 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"
+ - 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
+ - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
+ - new Sec "Voting"
+ - new Sec "Documentation"
+ - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
+ - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
+ "Being kind to porter" too
+ - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
+ - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
+ - 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
+ - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
+ Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
- -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 5 May 2002 17:57:42 -0400
+ * Antoine Hulin:
+ - update French translation
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
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