-developers-reference (3.4.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+developers-reference (3.4.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Update the NMU rules to take into account the 0-day NMU rule
+ instituted by the release managers. Closes: #625449
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:57:45 +0200
+
+developers-reference (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Team upload.
+
+ [ Gerfried Fuchs ]
+ * Remove part about -v for package uploads from experimental to unstable,
+ version tracking removed that requirement.
+
+ [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+ * Rework section on "sponsoring packages" and include a basic
+ checklist for the sponsor. Closes: #453313
+ * Update the "Debian Developer's Duties" chapter to be more explicit
+ about duties of package maintainers. Closes: #548867
+ * Update references to merkel (which is decommissionned) where
+ needed. Closes: #619990
+ Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.
+ * Many typos fixed by Chris Leick <c.leick@vollbio.de>. Closes: #623512
+
+ [ Chris Leick ]
+ * Initial German translation.
+
+ [ David Prévot ]
+ * Activate German package. Closes: #623489
+ * Update French translation.
+ * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. No changes needed.
+ * Add build-arch and build-indep targets.
+ * Explicitly refer to GPL-2 file in debian/copyright.
+
+ [ Hideki Yamane ]
+ * Update Japanese translation.
+
+ -- David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:56:46 -0400
+
+developers-reference (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
+ * Document the new derivatives-bugs PTS keyword.
+ * Removed hp.debian.or.jp reference. Closes: 561597
+
+ [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+ * Update description of the PTS "summary" keyword. Thanks to
+ Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #469154
+ * Add accent on my first name in debian/control.
+ * Use "3.0 (native)" source format with bzip2 compression.
+ Created debian/source/{format,options} for this.
+ * Update guideline for override change to point to BTS
+ instead of email. Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the
+ patch. Closes: #540231
+ * Include full URL to the README of the upload queue. Thanks to Simon
+ McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #540974
+ * The key protecting #debian-private is now stored on a file
+ on master.debian.org, it's no more required to search into
+ the debian-private archives. Thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
+ for the patch. Closes: #548823
+ * Update information about upload queues. Thanks to Simon McVittie
+ <smcv@debian.org> for the patches:
+ - point to official names {ftp,ssh}.upload.debian.org. Closes: #554054
+ - drop references to non-working queues. Closes: #554077
+ * Mention docbook, POD and reST as convenient formats to write new manual
+ pages. Thanks to Charles Plessy and the debian-mentors list
+ for the idea and the patch. Closes: #557298
+ * Update several sections to take into account the new source formats “3.0
+ (quilt)” and “3.0 (native)”. Closes: #561952
+ * Drop reference to “dbs” in the section about including binary files.
+ * Fix typo “transfered“ → “transferred”. Closes: #555685
+ * Fix typo “programms“ → “programs”. Closes: #560808
+ * Drop section about debmake, it has been removed of Debian since lenny.
+ * Update URL of the security tracker. Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso.
+ Closes: #556229
+ * Update URL of Packages-arch-specific. Closes: #553974
+ * Update section about Alioth to mention FusionForge instead of GForge.
+ Drop mention of separate cvs.debian.org it's managed by Alioth too.
+ Closes: #564068
+ * Document new "buildd" keyword from the PTS.
+ * Update URL explaining the "Debian Maintainer" status, it's now at
+ http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer. Closes: #564414
+ * Update number of source packages. Thanks Karl Goetz. Closes: #567235
+ * Update and simplify list of architectures. Thanks Karl Goetz.
+ Closes: #567234
+ * Small typo fixes and clarifications/rewordings suggested by Karl Goetz.
+ Closes: #567233
+ * Document the notion of "team upload": it looks like an NMU but it's not
+ really one because the uploader is an implicit co-maintainer since he's
+ part of the maintenance team. Thanks to Charles Plessy for the initial
+ patch. Closes: #573110
+ * Update standards-version to 3.9.1 and add missing ${misc:Depends} in
+ dependencies.
+ * Fix debian/tocsubstvars to cope with the new way dpkg-dev handles
+ multi-lines substitution variables.
+
+ [ David Prévot ]
+ * Update outdated mentions, typos and tags. Closes: #578664
+ * French translation updated from the 2006 debiandoc version.
+ * Apply updated patch from Nicolas François. Closes: #257150
+ * dinstall run happens four times a day. Closes: #585161
+ * Activate Japanese package.
+ * Handle addendum if it exists.
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:28:03 -0400
+
+developers-reference (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Fixed working of the repackaged tarballs section to avoid giving the
+ impression that it's a standard packages must comply with. Closes:
+ #489135.
+ * Specify that bugs from removed packages must be closed in foo+rm.
+ Closes: #491839.
+ * Change the maintainer address to debian-policy@, based on discussion
+ on debian-devel@.
+ * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No changes needed.
+ * Update copyright notices and list of authors.
+
+ -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:56:19 +0200
+
+developers-reference (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Applied patch from Justin B Rye that improves the discussion on writing
+ package descriptions. Closes: #516436.
+ * Lenny has been released, update the list of codenames. Closes: #527008.
+ * Applied patch from Paul Wise that adds a paragraph about hostile
+ upstreams. Closes: #523985.
+ * Applied patch from Charles Plessy about providing information to the
+ ftpmasters. Closes: #526410.
+ * In the section about patch systems, mention quilt (wasn not
+ mentionned before) and describe it as the recommended patch system.
+ also mention dpatch and cdbs' patch system. drop dbs. Closes: #525668.
+ * Added a note in the wanna-build section to mention
+ http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt. Closes: #516375.
+ * Clarified NMU versioning to reflect existing practices. Closes: #532945.
+ * s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section
+ about repackaged upstream tarballs.
+ * Mention the Gandi.net hosting discount in section 4.13.
+ Applied patch from Tim Retout. Closes: #538245.
+ * Reduce length of title of L10N section so that it is no longer split.
+ Applied patch from Justin B Rye. Closes: #534688.
+ * Bumped debhelper compat level to 5 (4 was deprecated)
+ * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No changes needed.
+ * Added pointer to debian-project@ post about the wanna-build team.
+
+ -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:28:04 +0200
+
+developers-reference (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ [ Raphael Hertzog ]
+ * Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
+ website.
+
+ [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
+ * Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
+ The most important changes are:
+ + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
+ + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
+ provided.
+ Other fixes:
+ + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
+ with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
+ + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
+ distinction. Closes: #464230.
+ + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
+ + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
+ * Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
+ W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
+ * Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
+ Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
+ Closes: #487664.
+ * Update instructions on the delayed queue.
+ Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
+ Closes: #512529.
+ * Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
+ Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
+ Closes: #492661.
+ * Improved README.contrib. Mention command to checkout the SVN
+ version. Thanks to Christine Spang for the patch.
+ Closes: #500371.
+ * Document usertags. Thanks to Chris Lamb for the patch.
+ Closes: #367876.
+ * Updated documentation on translation updates.
+ Thanks to Christian Perrier for the patch.
+ Closes: #474879.
+ * Update instructions on handling of security issues.
+ Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
+ Closes: #512620, #510783.
+
+ -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:57:54 +0100
+
+developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
[ Lucas Nussbaum ]
* Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
Closes: #483225.
* README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
Closes: #278267.
+ * build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
+ Closes: #376582.
[ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
* Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
release codenames in <literal>
* Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
doesn't exist anymore.
-
- -- Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@debian.org> Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:26:33 +0200
+ * Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
+ thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
+ * Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
+ and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
+ * Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
+ the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
+ fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandings
+ about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
+ * Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
+ distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
+ team before upload. Closes: #459343
+ * Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
+ * Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
+ need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
+ hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
+ on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806
+ * Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
+ pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
+ #467102
+ * Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
+ description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
+ at it.
+ * Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
+ have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
+ debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
+ * Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
+ ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
+ Thomas. Closes: #485837
+ * debian/control:
+ + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
+ + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!
+
+ -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:45:49 +0200
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