improved README.contrib (#500371)

git-svn-id: svn://anonscm.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference@5794 313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d

diff --git a/README-contrib b/README-contrib
index e312c0c89a2f1021bf59f906f9ae15cac7899d66..bd72459b4524bee259c7714720a5ac107d146120 100644 (file)
--- a/README-contrib
+++ b/README-contrib
@@ -51,13 +51,19 @@ SVN access for other reasons.
 
 If you're interested in ongoing maintenance, once you've shown that
 you've mastered the style of the manual with a couple accepted
 
 If you're interested in ongoing maintenance, once you've shown that
 you've mastered the style of the manual with a couple accepted

-patches, you can be given SVN access. If you have already
+patches, you can be given SVN access. If you already have

 access to the SVN server for other reasons, do not use it unless
 authorized to do so.
 
 access to the SVN server for other reasons, do not use it unless
 authorized to do so.
 

-Instructions on how to get the SVN version of this software, including
-how to get SVN access, can be found at
-<URL:http://svn.debian.org/>.
+This manual is a part of the Debian Documentation Project (DDP).
+Information about SVN access for DDP can be found at
+<http://www.debian.org/doc/cvs>.
+
+If you just want to check out the current SVN version of this
+manual to create patches against, you can use the following
+command to do so:
+
+svn co svn://svn.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference

 
 
 * Translators
 
 
 * Translators

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9839c6f86bbf109853b81eea23abee8d4afd04b7..f3023436034bf0cc5a5a050f28411f54dec2121d 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -28,8 +28,11 @@ developers-reference (3.4.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
     Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
     Closes: #492661.
   * Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
     Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
     Closes: #492661.

+  * Improved README.contrib. Mention command to checkout the SVN
+    version. Thanks to Christine Spang for the patch.
+    Closes: #500371.

 
 

- -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>  Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:15:35 +0100
+ -- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>  Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:20:12 +0100

 
 developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
 
 
 developers-reference (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low