- clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
recompile"; closes: #102626
- extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
- - Added best packaging practices chapter.
- - Added "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
- chapter. Closes: #53109, #129848
+ - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
+ Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
+ chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
+ - indicat 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 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
+ - 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 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.
* Antoine Hulin:
- update French translation
- -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 6 May 2002 19:52:15 -0700
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 8 May 2002 13:07:11 -0700
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