X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=developers-reference.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=debian%2Fchangelog;h=ca2816e1f6475baafb8b751aee73b9be51e9a86d;hp=fa2a9fd007e4994ab3b65386c0dd83acf4d9818d;hb=aaed407b0c363c49306aff53515e6f88e807bd4a;hpb=3b99d1b9e1df05d1f610146e6a2192cd1f38b5f3 diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index fa2a9fd..ca2816e 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,331 @@ +developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * Andreas Barth + - uploads to more than one dist are not possible. + - updated upload queues. Closes: #235213 + - updated URL of vanilla rules files. Closes: #237557, #252048 + - please speak with stable RM before uploading to stable. Closes: #261464 + - information on wnpp usage synced with wnpp. Closes: #255298 + - spelling, grammer fixes. + Closes: #202444, #202499, #203202, #203378, #221902, #226208 + - add hint about partitial key id. Closes: #243968 + - spohr is restriced, and also ftp-master. Closes: #255814 + - bpp: Hint about locale generation as non-root. Closes: #208021 + - bpp: deborphan-compliant transition packages. Closes: #183654 + - add myself to uploaders. + - add chapter about i10n. Closes: #208156 + - add information about dchroot. Closes: #211845 + - add information about NEWS.Debian. Closes: #212402 + - add information about mia-database. Closes: #213961 + - add link to debian-mentors FAQ. + - add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792 + - add hint about -v to experimental. Closes: #232930 + * Matt Zimmerman + - Security uploads get urgency=high + - Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates + + -- Andreas Barth Sun, 5 Sep 2004 14:02:11 -0600 + +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 with 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 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 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 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 + is a + or + is + or + are + 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400 + developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low * Adam Di Carlo: @@ -8,7 +336,6 @@ developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low the former chapters Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines" Ch "The Debian Archive" - New Sec "Documentation" stubbed out - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters Ch "Package uploads" @@ -26,8 +353,9 @@ developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort" Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers" - - Sec "Voting" stubbed in Developer Duties - 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", @@ -36,25 +364,82 @@ developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low - 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 with for files and + directories; since and 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 + - spell check and grammar corrections - s/GPG/GnuPG/ * Raphael Hertzog: - - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example. + - 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 - - 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 + - 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/, + http://bugs.debian.org/ 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 Mon, 6 May 2002 19:52:15 -0700 + -- Adam Di Carlo Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low @@ -846,6 +1231,3 @@ developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low -- Christian Schwarz Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200 -Local variables: -mode: auto-fill -End: