+developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Matt Zimmerman
+ - Security uploads get urgency=high
+ - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
+
+ -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jun 2004 09:34:32 -0700
+
+developers-reference (3.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - fixed language in the PTS section, prompted by a patch from
+ Romain FRANCOISE, thank you; closes: #197741
+ - updated the mailing lists section (again)
+ - documented Alioth, somewhat
+ * Frédéric Bothamy
+ - French translation updated to version 3.3.3 (more or less)
+ - proofread by Patrice Karatchentzeff
+ * Matt Zimmerman
+ - Don't upload security updates directly to stable
+ - Always include an external reference in security changelog entries
+ - Be careful not to re-use a version number in security uploads
+ - More explicit instructions about what is appropriate for a security
+ upload
+
+ * Adam Di Carlo
+ - replace <!entity...> with <!ENTITY...> and other SGML hygenics
+ - build refinements
+ - Release this package as is to flush changes between June and now.
+ Yes, its been an age between releases here, for which I apologize.
+ Since CVS upstream for this package is back, I'm working on closing
+ bugs in this package now, I just wanted to get it out as is before I
+ started.
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:09:48 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Frédéric Bothamy
+ - corrections by Michel Grentzinger
+ * Raphaël Hertzog
+ - updated documentation concerning the PTS
+ - added a paragraph about the PTS web interface
+ - documented how to add custom news item in the PTS
+ * Matt Zimmerman
+ - updates and clarifications to instructions for security bugs
+ - deprecate uploads to stable for security fixes, reference
+ section on security bugs; closes: #196516
+ - use dpkg-buildpackage -B to test binary-arch, not -b;
+ closes: #196555
+ * Adam Di Carlo
+ - Sec "Managing sponsored packages": remove unnecessary 'debsign' cmd;
+ closes: #192417
+ - fix debconf-devel(7) man page section; closes: #189512
+ - Sec "Responding to bugs": mention what FTBFS means; closes: #186605
+ - Sec "Distribution directories" renamed "Distributions"
+ - Sec "The testing distribution" moved under Sec "Distribution
+ directories" and renamed "More information about the testing
+ distribution"
+ - Secs "Uploads to {stable,testing-proposed-updates}" retitled to make
+ it clear these are special cases
+ - Sec "Uploading to ftp-master": xref to "Delayed incoming";
+ closes: #195997
+ - check compliance with Policy version 3.5.10
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:08:29 -0400
+
+developers-reference (3.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Frédéric Bothamy:
+ - French translation updated to version 3.3.1
+ - proofread by Philippe Batailler and Patrice Karatchentzeff
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - French translation requires debiandoc-sgml 1.1.76 or better
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:48:59 -0400
+
+developers-reference (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - package description said it contained French and Japanese, fixed,
+ closes: #182614
+ - Sec "Experimental": sources.list entries
+ - Sec "Basic rules for [mailing list] use": cosmetic, link to this sec
+ - Sec "Handling bugs": retitle and expand section
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - more improvements to package synopsis and description
+ - the synopsis formula changed to either
+ <package-name> is a <synopsis>
+ or
+ <package-name> is <synopsis>
+ or
+ <package-name> are <synopsis>
+ closes: #182956
+ - the synopsis itself should not start with an article
+ - Sec "Best practices for debian/control": expand intro
+ - fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
+ - Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
+ package; closes: #187143
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:52 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Frédéric Bothamy:
+ - French translation updated to version 3.2.2 (more or less)
+ - proofread by Philippe Batailler
+ * Raphaël Hertzog:
+ - added "ddtp" keyword in the PTS documentation
+ * 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
+ - described debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, and linked to them from the
+ right places in the document, closes: #172897
+ - describe the current practice in writing synopsis lines,
+ closes: #174161
+ * 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
+ - top-level makefile deletes targets on error; clean is cleaner
+ - 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; proper escaping of single quotes here requires newest
+ debhelper
+ - editorial changes on material added in this version
+ - reorder "Best Packaging Practices" a bit
+ - rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions
+ from Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, Sebastian Rittau and others;
+ closes: #139957, #108416
+ - primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
+ emails from other authors to prevent spam and confusion
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
+ - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
+ - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
+ - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
+ policy list
+ - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
+ for best practices for documentation
+ - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
+ new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
+ debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
+ covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
+ packages
+ - spell-checking pass
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
+ descriptions" moved under there
+ - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
+ - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
+ - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
+ subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
+ the document where these tools are discussed
+ - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
+ build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
+ - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
+ infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
+ appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
+ - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
+ and translators
+ - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
+ with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
+ that can be fixed by DDP folks
+ - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
+ after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
+ - simply PS and PDF building rules
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
+ section and adjusted links
+ - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - ChangeLog attribution updates
+ - fix typos, closes: #171781
+ - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
+ - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
+ - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
+ for debian/rules", and write an intro
+ - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
+ arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
+ - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
+ versus patching at build time" and rewritten
+ - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
+ - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
+ "Internationalization" section, and some edits
+ - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
+ "Internationalization"
+ - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
+ - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
+ - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
+ - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
+ packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
+ - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
+ - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
+ here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
+ a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
+ closes: #150384
+ - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
+ rather useless and broken
+ - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
+ names and the first word
+ - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
+ adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
+ oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
+ is 108 behind
+ - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
+ - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
+ - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
+
+developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Josip Rodin:
+ - DDP publishing update
+ * Adam Di Carlo:
+ - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
+ - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
+ - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
+ for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
+
+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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