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<sect1 id="servers-cvs">The CVS server
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<p>
Our CVS server is located on <tt>cvs.debian.org</tt>.
<p>
<sect1 id="madison">The <prgn>madison</prgn> utility
<p>
<prgn>madison</prgn> is a command-line utility that is available
-on both <tt>&ftp-master-host;</tt> and <tt>&non-us-host;</tt>. It
+on both <tt>&ftp-master-host;</tt> and <tt>&non-us-host;</tt>, and on
+the mirror on <tt>&ftp-master-mirror;</tt>. It
uses a single argument corresponding to a package name. In result
it displays which version of the package is available for each
architecture and distribution combination. An example will explain
most concise entry and the easiest to integrate with the text of the
<file>changelog</file>.
<p>
+If an upload is identified as <qref id="nmu">Non-maintainer upload (NMU)</qref>
+(and that is the case if the name of the person who commits this change
+is not exactly the same as any one of Maintainer or Uploader,
+except if the maintainer is the qa group),
+than the bug is only tagged <tt>fixed</tt> instead of being closed.
+If a maintainer upload is targetted to experimental,
+than the tag <tt>fixed-in-experimental</tt> is added to the bug;
+for NMUs, the tag <tt>fixed</tt> is used.
+(The special rule for experimental is expected to change
+as soon as version-tracking is added to the bug tracking system.)
+ <p>
If you happen to mistype a bug number or forget a bug in the changelog
entries, don't hesitate to undo any damage the error caused. To reopen
wrongly closed bugs, send an <tt>reopen <var>XXX</var></tt> command to
version of the package. For binary-only NMUs by porters or QA members,
please see <ref id="binary-only-nmu">.
If a buildd builds and uploads a package,
-that too is strictly technical speaking a binary NMU.
+that too is strictly speaking a binary NMU.
See <ref id="buildd"> for some more information.
<p>
The main reason why NMUs are done is when a
The unstable bug count are all release-critical bugs
without either any release-tag (such as potato, woody) or with release-tag sid;
also, only if they are neither fixed nor set to sarge-ignore.
-The "testing" bug count for a package is considered to be roughly the bug of unstable count at the last point when the "testing" version equalled the "unstable" version.
+The "testing" bug count for a package is considered to be roughly
+the bug count of unstable count at the last point
+when the "testing" version equalled the "unstable" version.
<p>
This will change post-sarge, as soon as we have versions in the bug tracking system.