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- add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
- add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
- add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
- add link to debian-mentors FAQ.
- add verbose information about the package description. Closes: #214792
- add hint about -v<version> to experimental. Closes: #232930
+ - update information about yada. Closes: #217956
+ - urgency is sticky. Closes: #261914
* Matt Zimmerman
- Security uploads get urgency=high
- Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
* Matt Zimmerman
- Security uploads get urgency=high
- Be even more explicit about not uploading security updates
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<title>Debian Developer's Reference
<author>Developer's Reference Team &email-devel-ref;
<title>Debian Developer's Reference
<author>Developer's Reference Team &email-devel-ref;
- <author>Adam Di Carlo, editor
+ <author>Andreas Barth
+ <author>Adam Di Carlo
<author>Raphaël Hertzog
<author>Christian Schwarz
<author>Ian Jackson
<author>Raphaël Hertzog
<author>Christian Schwarz
<author>Ian Jackson
<copyright>
<copyrightsummary>
<copyright>
<copyrightsummary>
+copyright © 2004 Andreas Barth</copyrightsummary>
+ <copyrightsummary>
copyright © 1998—2003 Adam Di Carlo</copyrightsummary>
<copyrightsummary>
copyright © 2002—2003 Raphaël Hertzog</copyrightsummary>
copyright © 1998—2003 Adam Di Carlo</copyrightsummary>
<copyrightsummary>
copyright © 2002—2003 Raphaël Hertzog</copyrightsummary>
The package must have been available in <em>unstable</em> for several days;
the precise number depends on the upload's urgency field. It
is 10 days for low urgency, 5 days for medium urgency and 2 days for high
The package must have been available in <em>unstable</em> for several days;
the precise number depends on the upload's urgency field. It
is 10 days for low urgency, 5 days for medium urgency and 2 days for high
-urgency. Those delays may be doubled during a freeze;
+urgency; please note that the urgency is sticky, means that the highest
+urgency uploaded since the last testing transition is taken into account.
+Those delays may be doubled during a freeze, or testing transition may be
+switched off at all;
<item>
It must have less release-critical bugs than the version available
in <em>testing</em>;
<item>
It must have less release-critical bugs than the version available
in <em>testing</em>;
<package>yada</package> is another packaging helper tool. It uses a
<file>debian/packages</file> file to auto-generate
<file>debian/rules</file> and other necessary files in the
<package>yada</package> is another packaging helper tool. It uses a
<file>debian/packages</file> file to auto-generate
<file>debian/rules</file> and other necessary files in the
-<file>debian/</file> subdirectory.
- <p>
-Note that <package>yada</package> is called "essentially unmaintained"
-by it's own maintainer, Charles Briscoe-Smith. As such, it can be
-considered deprecated.
+<file>debian/</file> subdirectory. The <file>debian/packages</file> file
+contains instruction to build packages and there is no need to create any
+<file>Makefile</file> files. There is possibility to
+use macro engine similar to the one used in SPECS files from RPM
+source packages.</p>
+ <p>
+For more informations see
+<tt><url id="http://yada.alioth.debian.org/" name="YADA site"></tt>.</p>
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