+ * 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