added best practices for debian/changelog, based on a patch from Daniel Kobras, close...

[developers-reference.git] / debian / changelog

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 24ca7d775fa49ef78c3992d78e1e69b6570caee7..b6a9212e09ff7e7dbbbab97d2ee75818bf448308 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -8,16 +8,23 @@ developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
   * Josip Rodin:
     - split out the doc-files per language, closes: #177448.
     - shuffled stuff around in the packages chapter
+    - added a section describing how to handle large amounts of
+      architecture-independent data bundled with programs
+    - added best practices on debian/changelog files, based on a patch
+      kindly provided by Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388.
   * Adam Di Carlo:
     - update (c) year
     - convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
       needed
     - split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
-    - note that the TOC in the developers-reference-{fr,ja} package
-      descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are allowed;
-      use substvars now to set that TOC --- TODO TODO TODO
-
- -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>  Sun, 26 Jan 2003 04:09:50 -0500
+    - top-level makefile deletes targets on error
+    - replace the manual debian/control processing to show the document's
+      table of contents (TOC) with a new script 'debian/tocsubstvars';
+      note that the TOC displayed in the developers-reference-{fr,ja}
+      package descriptions are in English until UTF8 control files are
+      allowed
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>  
 
 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low