X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=developers-reference.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=resources.dbk;h=0ca7bd1bb3b84af4721d064b69b7a236f8c741a2;hp=e577d6796a6b7992ee3ef87afd46123297897972;hb=38462ee9b698e53a137e2de9d894d2f92562762e;hpb=ee5cd8e4b25b5cc08eba4e381cfdfe56d4d7b911 diff --git a/resources.dbk b/resources.dbk index e577d67..0ca7bd1 100644 --- a/resources.dbk +++ b/resources.dbk @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ %commondata; ]> -Resources for Debian Developers +Resources for Debian Developers and Debian Maintainers In this chapter you will find a very brief road map of the Debian mailing lists, the Debian machines which may be available to you as a developer, and @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ signed mail where you tell what your nick is. Put cloak somewhere in the Subject: header. The nick should be registered: Nick Setup Page. The mail needs to be signed by a key in the Debian keyring. Please see Freenodes +url="http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#projectcloak">Freenode documentation for more information about cloaks. @@ -238,7 +238,8 @@ etc. If you have a problem with the operation of a Debian server, and you think that the system operators need to be notified of this problem, you can check the list of open issues in the DSA queue of our request tracker at (you can login with user "guest" and password "readonly"). +url="&url-rt;" /> (you can login with user "debian", its password is available at +master.debian.org:&file-debian-rt-password;). To report a new problem, simply send a mail to &email-rt-dsa; and make sure to put the string "Debian RT" somewhere in the subject. @@ -529,17 +530,17 @@ Debian decided to build some ports based on other Unix kernels, like hurd and kfreebsd. -&debian-formal; 1.3 was only available as i386. Debian +Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 was only available as i386. Debian 2.0 shipped for i386 and m68k architectures. Debian 2.1 shipped for the i386, m68k, alpha, and sparc architectures. Since then Debian has grown hugely. -Debian 5 supports a total of twelve architectures: alpha, -amd64, arm, -armel, hppa, -i386, ia64, mips, +Debian 6 supports a total of nine Linux architectures (amd64, +armel, i386, +ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, -s390, sparc. +s390, sparc) and two kFreeBSD architectures +(kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64). Information for developers and users about the specific ports are available at @@ -562,26 +563,26 @@ file: file or both an .orig.tar.gz and a .diff.gz file; with format “3.0 (quilt)”, it has a mandatory -.orig.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} upstream tarball, -multiple optional .orig-component.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} +.orig.tar.{gz,bz2,xz} upstream tarball, +multiple optional .orig-component.tar.{gz,bz2,xz} additional upstream tarballs and a mandatory -debian.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} debian +debian.tar.{gz,bz2,xz} debian tarball; with format “3.0 (native)”, it has only -a single .tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} tarball. +a single .tar.{gz,bz2,xz} tarball. If a package is developed specially for Debian and is not distributed outside of Debian, there is just one -.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} file which contains the sources of +.tar.{gz,bz2,xz} file which contains the sources of the program, it's called a “native” source package. If a package is distributed elsewhere too, the -.orig.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} file stores the so-called +.orig.tar.{gz,bz2,xz} file stores the so-called upstream source code, that is the source code that's distributed by the upstream maintainer (often the author of the software). In this case, the .diff.gz -or the debian.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} contains the changes +or the debian.tar.{gz,bz2,xz} contains the changes made by the Debian maintainer. @@ -626,7 +627,7 @@ development process of the Debian project. Active development is done in the unstable distribution (that's why this distribution is sometimes called the development -distribution). Every Debian developer can update his or her +distribution). Every Debian developer can update their packages in this distribution at any time. Thus, the contents of this distribution change from day to day. Since no special effort is made to make sure everything in this distribution is working properly, it is sometimes @@ -669,8 +670,8 @@ additions to stable in the proposed-updates directory. Those packages in proposed-updates that pass muster are periodically moved as a batch into the stable distribution and the revision level of the stable -distribution is incremented (e.g., ‘3.0’ becomes ‘3.0r1’, ‘2.2r4’ -becomes ‘2.2r5’, and so forth). Please refer to +distribution is incremented (e.g., ‘6.0’ becomes ‘6.0.1’, ‘5.0.7’ +becomes ‘5.0.8’, and so forth). Please refer to uploads to the stable distribution for details. @@ -738,7 +739,7 @@ with a few warnings in the description, but that isn't recommended because packages from unstable are expected to propagate to testing and thus to stable. You should not be afraid to use experimental since it does not -cause any pain to the ftpmasters, the experimental packages are automatically +cause any pain to the ftpmasters, the experimental packages are periodically removed once you upload the package in unstable with a higher version number. @@ -762,8 +763,9 @@ Every released Debian distribution has a code name: Debian Debian 1.3, bo; Debian 2.0, hamm; Debian 2.1, slink; Debian 2.2, potato; Debian 3.0, woody; Debian 3.1, sarge; -Debian 4.0, etch; Debian 5.0, lenny -and the next release will be called squeeze. +Debian 4.0, etch; Debian 5.0, lenny; +Debian 6.0, squeeze +and the next release will be called wheezy. There is also a ``pseudo-distribution'', called sid, which is the current unstable distribution; since packages are moved from unstable to @@ -848,10 +850,10 @@ by a daemon called queued, signed *.changes-files are moved together with their corresponding files to the unchecked directory. This directory is not visible for most Developers, as ftp-master is restricted; it -is scanned every 15 minutes by the katie script, which -verifies the integrity of the uploaded packages and their cryptographic +is scanned every 15 minutes by the dak process-upload script, +which verifies the integrity of the uploaded packages and their cryptographic signatures. If the package is considered ready to be installed, it is moved -into the accepted directory. If this is the first upload +into the done directory. If this is the first upload of the package (or it has new binary packages), it is moved to the new directory, where it waits for approval by the ftpmasters. If the package contains files to be installed by hand it is moved @@ -1027,7 +1029,7 @@ report status changes. upload-source -The email notification from katie when an uploaded source +The email notification from dak when an uploaded source package is accepted. @@ -1036,7 +1038,7 @@ package is accepted. katie-other -Other warning and error emails from katie (such as an +Other warning and error emails from dak (such as an override disparity for the section and/or the priority field). @@ -1568,22 +1570,26 @@ For more information please visit the following links:
-Goodies for Developers +Goodies for Debian Developers and Debian Maintainers
LWN Subscriptions Since October of 2002, HP has sponsored a subscription to LWN for all -interested Debian developers. Details on how to get access to this benefit are +interested Debian Developers and Debian Maintainers. +Details on how to get access to this benefit are in .
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-Gandi.net Hosting Discount - -As of November 2008, Gandi.net offers a discount rate on their VPS -hosting for Debian Developers. See -. +
+Valve games on Steam + +Since January 2014, Valve has sponsored free subscribtions to all past and present +Valve games on the Steam game distribution service for all interested Debian Developers +and Debian Maintainers. +Since Steam and Valve games are not Free Software, please avoid using your Debian +development machines for using Steam and playing games from Steam. +See .