+developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
+ - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
+ issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
+ * Raphaël Hertzog:
+ - added myself as co-author
+ - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
+ * Matt Zimmerman:
+ - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
+ Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
+ * Adam Di Carlo
+ - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
+ - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Raphaël Hertzog:
+ - Corrected several errors with —
+ - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
+ the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
+ - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
+ require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
+ - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
+ - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
+ - 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
+ - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
+ - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
+ - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
+ - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
+ mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
+ - updated the mailing lists section
+ * Adam Di Carlo
+ - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
+ - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
+ spelling fixes
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
+
developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Adam Di Carlo:
- - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
- welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
- welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
- - update copyright date
- - Sec "Getting started": link to New Maintainers' Guide
+
+ - 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 "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",
we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
- - 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
+ - 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!
+
+ * Antoine Hulin:
+ - update French translation
- -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 5 May 2002 13:24:03 -0700
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
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