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git-svn-id: svn://anonscm.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference@2598 313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ca2816e1f6475baafb8b751aee73b9be51e9a86d..2b06efe3cc2a82d5ee4a8742a7800930b850392e 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ developers-reference (3.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
     - 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

diff --git a/developers-reference.sgml b/developers-reference.sgml
index 91442bc1c697acfdb8cec0c3504d5d45bacfe5aa..1311438405553150700f2b8226a1f83f3f2d23c3 100644 (file)
--- a/developers-reference.sgml
+++ b/developers-reference.sgml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   <!ENTITY % commondata  SYSTEM "common.ent" > %commondata;
 
   <!-- CVS revision of this document -->
-  <!ENTITY cvs-rev "$Revision: 1.233 $">
+  <!ENTITY cvs-rev "$Revision: 1.234 $">
 
   <!-- if you are translating this document, please notate the CVS
        revision of the original developer's reference in cvs-en-rev -->
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
       <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
@@ -29,6 +30,8 @@
 
       <copyright>
        <copyrightsummary>
+copyright &copy; 2004 Andreas Barth</copyrightsummary>
+       <copyrightsummary>
 copyright &copy; 1998&mdash;2003 Adam Di Carlo</copyrightsummary>
        <copyrightsummary>
 copyright &copy; 2002&mdash;2003 Raphaël Hertzog</copyrightsummary>
@@ -966,7 +969,10 @@ the following:
 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>;
@@ -4618,11 +4624,14 @@ and make the package entirely functional and Policy-compliant.
 <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>
         </sect1>
 
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