chiark / gitweb /
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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aph [Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:21:51 +0000 (06:21 +0000)]
move configure stuff under configure case; don't make usr/doc symlink
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 20:45:59 +0000 (20:45 +0000)]
- Sec "Common situations" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
- Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
- Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:22:54 +0000 (10:22 +0000)]
damn cvs keywords, inhibit
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:10:06 +0000 (10:10 +0000)]
- 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 Situations"
- Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
- Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:00:59 +0000 (10:00 +0000)]
retab, no content changes
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:59:51 +0000 (09:59 +0000)]
adapt script to local context, strip out useless -V option too
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:56:32 +0000 (09:56 +0000)]
doc-check reference for best-practices, doc translations
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:50:24 +0000 (09:50 +0000)]
expand the doc-base abstract and authors
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aph [Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:49:33 +0000 (09:49 +0000)]
translation status checking tool, based on documentation/doc-check
from boot-floppies source, rev 1.12
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aph [Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:21:14 +0000 (23:21 +0000)]
fix typo, closes: #171781
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aph [Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:19:55 +0000 (21:19 +0000)]
typo fix, thanks Alfie Costa
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joy [Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:36:52 +0000 (16:36 +0000)]
update
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joy [Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:30:47 +0000 (16:30 +0000)]
added spaces between © and the first year (wonder if that was intentional?); merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian section and adjusted links; added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
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aph [Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:17:31 +0000 (02:17 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:16:33 +0000 (02:16 +0000)]
prepare 3.1.2
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aph [Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:14:44 +0000 (02:14 +0000)]
Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
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aph [Thu, 28 Nov 2002 00:40:59 +0000 (00:40 +0000)]
doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
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aph [Thu, 28 Nov 2002 00:40:24 +0000 (00:40 +0000)]
debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
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joy [Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:53:37 +0000 (19:53 +0000)]
updated PUBLISHDIR
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aph [Wed, 13 Nov 2002 04:23:00 +0000 (04:23 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Wed, 13 Nov 2002 04:18:40 +0000 (04:18 +0000)]
finalize version 3.1.1
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aph [Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:38:44 +0000 (20:38 +0000)]
fix some bad URLs, notably the testing FAQ -- checkbot reports all is well now
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aph [Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:40:59 +0000 (18:40 +0000)]
fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
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aph [Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:37:50 +0000 (18:37 +0000)]
don't use caps or fullstops in changelog entries -- a bug I fixed
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aph [Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:33:43 +0000 (18:33 +0000)]
fix bad debian emacs policy, closes: #168357
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mdz [Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:07:34 +0000 (16:07 +0000)]
Security updates
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joy [Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:09:20 +0000 (21:09 +0000)]
the version of dpkg-dev that supports this feature is no longer new, so skip that; also rephrased the sentence better while i was at it
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joy [Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:01:56 +0000 (21:01 +0000)]
update
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joy [Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:00:16 +0000 (21:00 +0000)]
fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs. this should probably address the issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing stuff.
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hertzog [Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:58:32 +0000 (14:58 +0000)]
- Added myself as co-author.
- Fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance". Closes: #161488
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joy [Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:01:37 +0000 (11:01 +0000)]
update for my last change
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joy [Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:50:28 +0000 (10:50 +0000)]
updated IRC stuff based on patch from SynrG, closes: #161403
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aph [Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:32:14 +0000 (16:32 +0000)]
tagging improvements and editorial improvements in config-wise-debconf
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aph [Wed, 11 Sep 2002 02:02:56 +0000 (02:02 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Wed, 11 Sep 2002 01:58:38 +0000 (01:58 +0000)]
my changes
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aph [Wed, 11 Sep 2002 01:56:05 +0000 (01:56 +0000)]
spell checking, tag fixes, editorial review -- no new content
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hertzog [Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:08:25 +0000 (10:08 +0000)]
- Also mentions sending patchs in the BSP section.
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hertzog [Mon, 9 Sep 2002 09:46:18 +0000 (09:46 +0000)]
- Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
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hertzog [Sun, 8 Sep 2002 18:42:13 +0000 (18:42 +0000)]
- Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
closes: #150392
- Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
"Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
- Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
- Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
- Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
closes: #158650
- Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
descriptions". closes: #158609
- Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
- Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
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joy [Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:44:27 +0000 (10:44 +0000)]
updated the when-to-do-source-NMUs section a little bit, prompted by Elie Rosenblum's complaint on -devel
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mdz [Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:47:50 +0000 (15:47 +0000)]
Update security instructions to specify that uploads should not be made
to the security queue without approval
Misc fixes and cleanups to security section
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hertzog [Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:36:06 +0000 (15:36 +0000)]
* Applied patch from Matt Zimmerman for handling security related bugs.
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joy [Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:37:21 +0000 (19:37 +0000)]
renamed the testing scripts section to a more generic testing distribution, and added missing <em>s around some references to it (which were potentially confusing without that)
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joy [Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:22:49 +0000 (19:22 +0000)]
HTTP is not just usually, it's always
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joy [Sat, 17 Aug 2002 17:31:55 +0000 (17:31 +0000)]
oopsie, that URL was pointing to the wrong place :)
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joy [Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:26:03 +0000 (15:26 +0000)]
update
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joy [Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:39:39 +0000 (14:39 +0000)]
changed needlessly FTP URIs to HTTP; added debian-project
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joy [Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:23:41 +0000 (14:23 +0000)]
rewrote the mailing lists section to have logical subsections; expanded on the meanings of the core mailing lists
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joy [Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:34:12 +0000 (11:34 +0000)]
update
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joy [Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:30:54 +0000 (11:30 +0000)]
following Ryan Murray's advice, removed servers' real names and used only service names.
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joy [Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:58:01 +0000 (11:58 +0000)]
updated
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joy [Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:57:26 +0000 (11:57 +0000)]
updated (people.d.o->gluck), expanded (non-US) and mostly rewrote the Debian servers section
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joy [Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:52:20 +0000 (10:52 +0000)]
added some of my June 20th changes to the changelog
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hertzog [Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:28:54 +0000 (19:28 +0000)]
* Applied several patches.
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joy [Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:59:21 +0000 (20:59 +0000)]
language fixes in a paragraph
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joy [Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:34:58 +0000 (20:34 +0000)]
linguistic fixes from David Kimdon; other proofreading by myself, mostly changing he -> they
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hertzog [Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:58:49 +0000 (19:58 +0000)]
* New changelog entry.
* Fixed some entities (missing ";" in "—").
* Applied patch from Peter Palfrader. closes: #150427
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joy [Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:16:06 +0000 (19:16 +0000)]
removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
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hertzog [Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:30:22 +0000 (00:30 +0000)]
* Sec "Writing useful descriptions". Added a sentence about the
capitalization of the first letter.
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aph [Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:27:30 +0000 (06:27 +0000)]
update for next release
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aph [Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:26:22 +0000 (06:26 +0000)]
my changes; standardize Raphael's changelog entries
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aph [Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:19:25 +0000 (06:19 +0000)]
populate Sec "Collaborative maintenance"
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aph [Fri, 14 Jun 2002 05:15:40 +0000 (05:15 +0000)]
spelling fixes and some awkward wordings fixed
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aph [Fri, 14 Jun 2002 04:29:39 +0000 (04:29 +0000)]
more notes to myself, many probably obsolete
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hertzog [Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:31:48 +0000 (07:31 +0000)]
- Integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
Denis Barbier. Thanks Denis !
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hertzog [Sat, 8 Jun 2002 20:29:29 +0000 (20:29 +0000)]
- Completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
"Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
"The wise use of debconf". All those are quite simplistic, they
can be improved ...
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hertzog [Fri, 24 May 2002 00:17:13 +0000 (00:17 +0000)]
- Completed Sec "Voting"
- Completed Sec "Documentation"
- Added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter.
- Added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the
being kind to porter too.
- Extended the explanation about devscripts.
- Completed Sec "Helper scripts"
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hertzog [Thu, 23 May 2002 20:03:26 +0000 (20:03 +0000)]
- Completed Sec Bug housekeeping. closes: #39519
- Stubbed sections for all ideas for "Best Packaging Practices". We have
to either fill them or comment them out. I've put some notes about
the content of each of those sections to help the writers.
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hertzog [Sun, 12 May 2002 08:36:22 +0000 (08:36 +0000)]
- Fixed the URL in Sec "Bug Reporting"
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osamu [Sun, 12 May 2002 03:33:32 +0000 (03:33 +0000)]
Sorry, this bugs broke DDP site build process.
I saw simple typos (missing ";") and <ftppath>-tags which does not exist
in English. This was good iontension but used in conflict with the
current common.ent.
I hopefully used 8-bit clean editor (vimand mcedit in LC_ALL=C). I do
not have LANG=ja_JP in my system :( Shame on me.
Now DDP site shall build :)
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aph [Sat, 11 May 2002 20:11:03 +0000 (20:11 +0000)]
entity'ize debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
work-around with <...>
fix some awkward working from recent updates
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hertzog [Fri, 10 May 2002 20:27:22 +0000 (20:27 +0000)]
* Sec "Writing useful descriptions": added a blurb about spell-checking.
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hertzog [Thu, 9 May 2002 22:24:33 +0000 (22:24 +0000)]
- Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
Francesco Paolo Lovergine. Heavily updated by myself.
- New Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
Francesco Paolo Lovergine. Slightly updated by myself.
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hertzog [Thu, 9 May 2002 17:43:53 +0000 (17:43 +0000)]
- Various spelling fixes.
- Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
login@debian.org.
- Update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
of a Debian archive.
- Updated the list of available architectures.
- Commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
of the package and nothing more.
- Added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
any pains to the ftpmasters.
- Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
the use of the delayed queue.
- New Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
be upset by a NMU.
- Stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance".
- Stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System".
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hertzog [Thu, 9 May 2002 09:45:27 +0000 (09:45 +0000)]
- Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
also speak of the DELAYED directory. closes: #135562, #136774
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hertzog [Wed, 8 May 2002 22:27:35 +0000 (22:27 +0000)]
- Explain to reassign/close bugs of removed packages. closes: #130255
- Updates the note about software subject to US patents. closes: #142798
- New Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
- New Section "Package's information" under Resources
Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility.
- Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
- Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
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aph [Wed, 8 May 2002 20:07:55 +0000 (20:07 +0000)]
standardizing some of Raphael's entries
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hertzog [Wed, 8 May 2002 15:34:10 +0000 (15:34 +0000)]
- Indicated that the list of subsections is defined in the policy.
Closes: #123586
- Removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'.
- Document the testing scripts. Closes: #129445
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hertzog [Wed, 8 May 2002 10:29:20 +0000 (10:29 +0000)]
- Added best packaging practices chapter.
- Added "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
chapter. Closes: #53109, #129848
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hertzog [Tue, 7 May 2002 22:39:48 +0000 (22:39 +0000)]
- Little typo: s/you/your/.
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aph [Tue, 7 May 2002 03:37:26 +0000 (03:37 +0000)]
trim the bad submit-bugs chapter; s/GPG/GnuPG/
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aph [Tue, 7 May 2002 03:10:20 +0000 (03:10 +0000)]
spell check and some awkward grammar
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aph [Tue, 7 May 2002 02:52:34 +0000 (02:52 +0000)]
cosmetics and Antoine's updates
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