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aph [Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:03:09 +0000 (21:03 +0000)]
start next version
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aph [Fri, 4 Apr 2003 19:28:05 +0000 (19:28 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Fri, 4 Apr 2003 19:27:15 +0000 (19:27 +0000)]
3.3.1 ready for release
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aph [Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:13:24 +0000 (20:13 +0000)]
Josip's recent changes
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aph [Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:05:19 +0000 (20:05 +0000)]
some of my recent changes
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aph [Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:04:30 +0000 (20:04 +0000)]
Sec "Multiple binary packages": fix awkward wording about vim source
package; closes: #187143; some notes and FIXMES which need to be dealt with
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aph [Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:52:35 +0000 (19:52 +0000)]
fix doc-check URL; closes: #187144
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joy [Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:38:12 +0000 (13:38 +0000)]
fixed up the section on reporting bugs
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joy [Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:16:25 +0000 (13:16 +0000)]
improved the general bugs section
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joy [Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:18:50 +0000 (19:18 +0000)]
added an id for linking to the description of experimental, and sources.list lines for it
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joy [Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:53:40 +0000 (16:53 +0000)]
more noticeable separated
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aph [Sat, 1 Mar 2003 19:10:23 +0000 (19:10 +0000)]
the synopsis formula changed to either
<package-name> is a <synopsis>
or
<package-name> is <synopsis>
or
<package-name> are <synopsis>
closes: #182956
the synopsis itself should not start with an article
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aph [Sat, 1 Mar 2003 18:58:13 +0000 (18:58 +0000)]
try to comply with our own recommendations on package synopsis;
improve the package descriptions
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joy [Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:17:14 +0000 (22:17 +0000)]
fixed package descriptions, closes: #182614
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aph [Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:59:35 +0000 (19:59 +0000)]
start next version
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aph [Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:50:04 +0000 (18:50 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:29:31 +0000 (18:29 +0000)]
prepare 3.3 for release
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joy [Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:12:53 +0000 (18:12 +0000)]
two little updates
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aph [Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:54:49 +0000 (18:54 +0000)]
recent changes, date burn the changelog entry -- I think we are ready
for release
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aph [Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:54:04 +0000 (18:54 +0000)]
primary author is developers-reference@packages.debian.org; remove
emails from other authors to prevent spam
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aph [Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:44:57 +0000 (18:44 +0000)]
bpp-debian-maint-scripts - move down to where debconf is, no content
changes at all
bpp-debian-control - more suggestions from IRC
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aph [Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:59:42 +0000 (17:59 +0000)]
clean is cleaner
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aph [Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:58:20 +0000 (17:58 +0000)]
some changes to bpp-debian-control from Sebastian Rittau
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aph [Sun, 23 Feb 2003 08:53:48 +0000 (08:53 +0000)]
*** empty log message ***
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aph [Sun, 23 Feb 2003 08:49:06 +0000 (08:49 +0000)]
rework "Best practices for debian/control" based on contributions from
Colin Walters, Branden Robinson, and discussions on bugs 139957 and
108416
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joy [Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:16:10 +0000 (22:16 +0000)]
another typo fix and a clarification of my sentence
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joy [Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:12:16 +0000 (22:12 +0000)]
removed the extra copy of life, universe and everything ;) and tidied up another paragraph
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aph [Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:05:13 +0000 (21:05 +0000)]
Sec bpp-archindepdata: editorial changes
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aph [Sat, 22 Feb 2003 20:59:51 +0000 (20:59 +0000)]
bpp-archindepdata: eliminate leading space, no change in content at all
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aph [Sat, 22 Feb 2003 20:57:22 +0000 (20:57 +0000)]
move bpp-debian-changelog to be right after bpp-debian-control section
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aph [Sat, 22 Feb 2003 20:54:02 +0000 (20:54 +0000)]
proper escaping of single quotes in the pkg description/TOC requires
newest debhelper
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aph [Sat, 22 Feb 2003 20:51:20 +0000 (20:51 +0000)]
s|bugs.debian.org|&bugs-host;|
s|<email>control@bugs.debian.org</email>|&email-bts-control;|
<sect1>When bugs are closed by new uploads -- minor editorial changes
<sect>Best practices for debian/changelog -- substantial editing,
although mostly editorial, few content changes
in "Tools", debdiff and dpkg-depcheck link to their package, devscripts
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joy [Sat, 22 Feb 2003 19:15:33 +0000 (19:15 +0000)]
tidied up the db.d.o stuff
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joy [Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:54:47 +0000 (18:54 +0000)]
tidied up the vacation section
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joy [Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:36:31 +0000 (18:36 +0000)]
rephrased and expanded the voting section a little bit
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joy [Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:14:49 +0000 (18:14 +0000)]
moved the remaining sections that aren't just about uploads up one level
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joy [Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:50:30 +0000 (10:50 +0000)]
dpkg-parsechangelog is noisy when you make a syntax error, but we don't need that noisiness here
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joy [Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:48:31 +0000 (10:48 +0000)]
plug bpp-debian-changelog a little bit
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aph [Sun, 16 Feb 2003 01:48:32 +0000 (01:48 +0000)]
minor typographical changes
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joy [Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:03:51 +0000 (12:03 +0000)]
added a link to the policy, and explained the current practice in the synopsis section. this is a compromise as it doesn't expressly conflict with Manoj's or jaq's POV :) closes: #174161
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joy [Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:29:49 +0000 (11:29 +0000)]
debdiff and dpkg-depcheck, closes: #172897
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joy [Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:02:58 +0000 (15:02 +0000)]
better phrased
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joy [Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:52:49 +0000 (14:52 +0000)]
added best practices for debian/changelog, based on a patch from Daniel Kobras, closes: #166388
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joy [Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:40:31 +0000 (10:40 +0000)]
another sentence to clarify it further
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joy [Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:42:51 +0000 (14:42 +0000)]
added a section describing how to handle large amounts of architecture-independent data bundled with programs
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aph [Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:21:23 +0000 (20:21 +0000)]
use of tocsubstvars, minor cosmetics and notes
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aph [Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:45:18 +0000 (19:45 +0000)]
recent changes
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aph [Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:41:40 +0000 (19:41 +0000)]
script to make the manual TOC into a substvar for debian/control
description use
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joy [Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:01:48 +0000 (11:01 +0000)]
:)
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aph [Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:19:12 +0000 (09:19 +0000)]
multiple packages, use the english TOC for all until we can use UTF8
data here
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aph [Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:18:29 +0000 (09:18 +0000)]
top-level makefile deletes target on error
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aph [Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:16:40 +0000 (09:16 +0000)]
convert to debhelper (compat mode 4); maintainer scripts no longer
needed
split -ja and -fr versions out into separate packages
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joy [Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:16:22 +0000 (01:16 +0000)]
removing old tags from translations. hope it isn't a major screwup for .ja
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joy [Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:13:42 +0000 (01:13 +0000)]
file-bts-mailing (server-request) doesn't really provide more information on override files, and file-bts-info (Developer) now has a maintincorrect anchor in it, so use that
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joy [Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:04:05 +0000 (01:04 +0000)]
oh, look, i fixed that.
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joy [Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:02:37 +0000 (01:02 +0000)]
update
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joy [Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:59:53 +0000 (00:59 +0000)]
the ordering of sections and their content in the packages chapter was SNAFU; this should fix most of that. (note to translators: the bottom, larger part of this diff is because of moving sections around, no content changes)
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joy [Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:42:27 +0000 (22:42 +0000)]
alleviating some of the confusion with sections and subsections, prompted by Florian Hinzmann's mail on -policy; fixing some weird sections (the package uploads chapter needs more work...)
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joy [Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:17:07 +0000 (22:17 +0000)]
a better explanation for the which(1) situation
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joy [Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:09:53 +0000 (22:09 +0000)]
irc alias was updated to freenode; mention oftc
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joy [Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:05:39 +0000 (22:05 +0000)]
slightly rearranged the db.d.o section
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joy [Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:44:29 +0000 (21:44 +0000)]
hmm, www.d.o wasn't in the entity
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joy [Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:42:11 +0000 (21:42 +0000)]
describe/plug the testing web page better
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joy [Sun, 19 Jan 2003 20:57:41 +0000 (20:57 +0000)]
split translations into different doc-base files
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hertzog [Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:25:22 +0000 (16:25 +0000)]
- Updated the PTS doc with the "ddtp" keyword.
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joy [Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:55:11 +0000 (17:55 +0000)]
oops
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joy [Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:26:13 +0000 (13:26 +0000)]
updated sect1 multiple-patches to have a better title/introduction and to mention dpatch (prompted by Joerg Jaspert)
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aph [Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:21:40 +0000 (09:21 +0000)]
commented out changes only: remove todo items
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aph [Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:10:32 +0000 (09:10 +0000)]
update copyright year
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fbothamy [Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:57:25 +0000 (23:57 +0000)]
Update french version to latest version.
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fbothamy [Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:54:47 +0000 (23:54 +0000)]
Synchronize with 1.153 and proofread by P. Batailler.
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joy [Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:03:42 +0000 (19:03 +0000)]
noted that debian-devel (not -private! boo!) can be contacted to ask about a missing maintainer; rephrased the stuff about conflicts and mentioned the ways of resolving such issues
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joy [Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:53:34 +0000 (18:53 +0000)]
replaced the mia-qa section with what Martin Michlmayr wrote, plus proofreading by myself
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joy [Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:36:28 +0000 (18:36 +0000)]
moved the contacting maintainers section above the one about being unable to contact maintainers (mmmh, logic)
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joy [Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:08:50 +0000 (20:08 +0000)]
replaced ASCII with plain text, since not all plain text is ASCII
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aph [Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:47:07 +0000 (18:47 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:45:44 +0000 (18:45 +0000)]
prepare 3.2.2
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aph [Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:44:37 +0000 (18:44 +0000)]
Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on policy
list
Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations" for
best practices for documentation
Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums; new
Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for debview,
debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now covers all
of the established, general Debian maintainer tool packages
spell-checking pass
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aph [Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:42:28 +0000 (18:42 +0000)]
ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
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aph [Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:41:08 +0000 (18:41 +0000)]
remove some todo items which are done
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:26:08 +0000 (19:26 +0000)]
Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
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joy [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 13:14:39 +0000 (13:14 +0000)]
update
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joy [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 13:09:36 +0000 (13:09 +0000)]
merged url-debian-mirror{s,ing}, the ftplist page is deprecated and the mirror page lists all
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joy [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 13:08:07 +0000 (13:08 +0000)]
slightly rewrote the mirrors section and moved it below the description of the archive (seems more logical)
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:05:15 +0000 (08:05 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:04:05 +0000 (08:04 +0000)]
prepare 3.2.1
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:00:16 +0000 (08:00 +0000)]
use the debiandoc2* tools for PS and PDF generation
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 07:23:44 +0000 (07:23 +0000)]
stop shipping SGML source, what's the point, this is a binary pkg, the
SGML doesn't have the proper build depends, you can't build it in
those dirs anyway -- much better to do 'apt-get source developers-reference'
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 07:16:25 +0000 (07:16 +0000)]
eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now with
the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably that can
be fixed by DDP folks
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 07:15:41 +0000 (07:15 +0000)]
- Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
descriptions" moved under there
- Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
- Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
- Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
the document where these tools are discussed
- Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
- Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
- README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
and translators
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aph [Mon, 9 Dec 2002 07:08:16 +0000 (07:08 +0000)]
readme for contributores, including translators
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aph [Sun, 8 Dec 2002 22:54:24 +0000 (22:54 +0000)]
Internationalized documentation had the wrong sectional capitalization
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 07:28:43 +0000 (07:28 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 07:27:53 +0000 (07:27 +0000)]
all my recent changes, and call it version 3.2
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 07:26:22 +0000 (07:26 +0000)]
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
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:53:30 +0000 (06:53 +0000)]
validation suffix rule now requires version.ent
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:49:33 +0000 (06:49 +0000)]
remove debget from tools section, add notes on more tools to document
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:35:50 +0000 (06:35 +0000)]
don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX, hardcode /usr/sbin/install-docs
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:34:47 +0000 (06:34 +0000)]
why even have a case stmt -- strip it down more
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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:26:40 +0000 (06:26 +0000)]
produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
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