1 developers-reference (3.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4 - French translation update to latest version
5 - Proofread by Philippe Batailler
9 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 2 Jan 2003 04:10:54 -0500
11 developers-reference (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
14 - slightly rewrote and updated links in the mirrors section
16 - Policy compliance checked and updated to 3.5.8, no changes needed
17 - TODO: remove some tasks which are done
18 - ship README-contrib and TODO in the doc dir
19 - Sec "Upstream home page": some revisions based on discussion on
21 - Sec "Documentation" added under Sec "Common packaging situations"
22 for best practices for documentation
23 - Add tools entries for autotools-dev, dpkg-repack, alien, debsums;
24 new Sec "Documentation and information", add entries there for
25 debview, debiandoc-sgml, debian-keyring; we believe this manual now
26 covers all of the established, general Debian maintainer tool
30 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:23 -0500
32 developers-reference (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
35 - Sec "Best practices for debian/control" added, Sec "Writing useful
36 descriptions" moved under there
37 - Sec "Upstream home page" added in debian/control section
38 - Sec "Miscellaneous advice" empty, removed
39 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": tools now categorized into
40 subgroups; do cross-linking from this section into other parts of
41 the document where these tools are discussed
42 - Sec "Overview of maintainer tools": add entries for sbuild,
43 build-essential, linda; improved entries for pbuilder, devscripts
44 - Sec "Tools for porters" renamed and readapted to "Porting
45 infrastructure and automation"; move tool discussion down to the
46 appendix; improve Sec "buildd" a bit
47 - README-contrib added giving information for authors, contributors,
49 - eliminate the ByHand stuff, I'm pretty sure it's not needed now
50 with the DDP builder process, or if it is needed, it's a probably
51 that can be fixed by DDP folks
52 - stop shipping SGML source -- use 'apt-get source developers-reference'
53 after all, this is supposed to be a binary package, right?
54 - simply PS and PDF building rules
56 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:04:19 -0500
58 developers-reference (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
61 - merged a bit misplaced lintian-reports section within the lintian
62 section and adjusted links
63 - added the missing description of dh-make and adjusted links
65 - ChangeLog attribution updates
66 - fix typos, closes: #171781
67 - expand the doc-base abstract and authors
68 - Ch "Packaging Practices" rewritten intro
69 - Sec "Packaging tools and common cases" renamed to "Best Practices
70 for debian/rules", and write an intro
71 - Sec "Helper scripts" in practices section rewritten, giving
72 arguments for and against debhelper, mostly for :)
73 - Sec "Package with multiple patches" renamed to "Patching source
74 versus patching at build time" and rewritten
75 - Sec "Multiple binary packages" rewritten
76 - Sec "Handling debconf translations" moved under an
77 "Internationalization" section, and some edits
78 - Sec "Internationalized Documentation" added under Sec
79 "Internationalization"
80 - Sec "Specific packaging practices" renamed to "Common packaging situations"
81 - Sec "Packages using autoconf/automake" rewritten
82 - Sec "Configuration management" moved forward in practices chapter
83 - Sec "Other specific packages" renamed to "Specific types of
84 packages", add info for SGML/XML and Lisp packages
85 - Sec "Writing useful descriptions" heavily edited
86 - Sec "Best practices for maintainer scripts" added, special credit
87 here to Charles Briscoe-Smith for work dating back to 1998; include
88 a POSIX shell snippet showing how to check if a command is the PATH,
90 - Apdx "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove debget, it's
91 rather useless and broken
92 - normalize up-casing on sections, which should only up-case proper
93 names and the first word
94 - new 'translation-status' script to check status of translations,
95 adapted from doc-check in boot-floppies, source pkg only --
96 oh my, French translation is 54 CVS revisions behind, and Japanese
98 - postinst: don't set /usr/doc symlink, aesthetics
99 - prerm: don't use 'command -v', it's not POSIX
100 - rules: produce md5sums file; break out a 'test' target
102 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:28:06 -0500
104 developers-reference (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
107 - DDP publishing update
109 - doc-base file includes French and Japanese files
110 - debsign invocation was slightly wrong, closes: #170523
111 - Sec "Handling debconf translations", updates from Martin Quinson
112 for po-debconf with minimal editorial changes, closes: #169007
114 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:16:30 -0500
116 developers-reference (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
119 - updated IRC stuff, thanks to Ben Armstrong, closes: #161403
120 - fixed/updated/extended stuff about bugs, hoping to address the
121 issue of people abusing the changelog bug closing feature
123 - added myself as co-author
124 - fix a typo in Sec "Collaborative maintenance", closes: #161488
126 - updated security information, merging in Joey's stuff from the
127 Security Team FAQ and various updates and clarifications
129 - fix some bad URLs, closes: #168357
130 - fix a grammar typo, closes: #166098
132 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:15:03 -0500
134 developers-reference (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
137 - Corrected several errors with —
138 - Applied patch from Peter Palfrader, correcting
139 the URL for the Debian Voting Information page. closes: #150427
140 - Applied patch from Matej Vela, dpkg-buildpackage does no more
141 require -sa for version -0.1. closes: #150861
142 - Applied the reformulations proposed by David Kimdon. closes: #150572
143 - Applied the patch of Matt Zimmerman. Thanks Matt! closes: #145287
144 - Added the explanation about how to replace an .orig.tar.gz.
146 - Mostly deleted the paragraph about security upload in the
147 section explaining source NMU. Just added a link to point to
148 "Handling security-related bugs". closes: #159935
149 - Added a link to the Technical Committee web page (in the "Bug
150 housekeeping" section). closes: #151365
151 - Explain uploads to testing-proposed-updates, mentions briefly
152 stable-security and testing-security. closes: #149666
153 Removed the comment about uploads to frozen.
154 - Documented the "Developer's packages overview" web portal.
156 - Added a reference to debian-l10n-english in "Writing useful
157 descriptions". closes: #158609
158 - Added a Best Packaging Practice section for "Packages using
159 autoconf/automake". closes: #158045
160 - Documented associated features to db.debian.org like SSH key
161 replication and *.debian.net DNS entry. closes: #155389
162 - Added a section about "Bug Squashing Parties".
164 - removed obsolete, needless dupload variables
165 - applied linguistic fixes from David Kimdon, closes: #150572
166 - random proofreading, mostly changing he -> they
167 - added people.d.o and non-us.d.o to the Debian servers section, and
168 mostly rewrote it to exclude real machine names and be better organized
169 - updated the mailing lists section
171 - debian/changelog: remove obsolete Emacs variables
172 - editorial review of the changes above, minor tagging changes,
175 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:41 -0400
177 developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
180 - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer
181 - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer
183 - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating
185 Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines"
186 Ch "The Debian Archive"
188 - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters
190 Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)"
191 Ch "Porting and Being Ported"
192 Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages"
193 Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs")
194 Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out)
196 - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute
197 to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates
198 Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to
199 Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers"
200 Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs"
201 Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort"
202 Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers"
204 - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources
205 - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers
208 - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide
209 - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors",
210 we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages"
211 - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case
212 - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039
213 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections
214 - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc.
215 - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and
216 directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right,
217 work-around with <...>
218 - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir
219 - update copyright date
220 - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule
221 - spell check and grammar corrections
225 - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example;
227 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple
228 recompile"; closes: #102626
229 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560
230 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new
231 Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that
232 chapter; closes: #53109, #129848
233 - indicate that the list of subsections is defined in the policy;
235 - removed some cruft in `Announcing package uploads'
236 - document the testing scripts; closes: #129445
237 - explain how to reassign/close bugs of removed packages;
239 - updates the note about software subject to US patents;
241 - new Section "Contacting other maintainers" under "Beyond packaging"
242 Document the package@packages.debian.org alias; closes: #114553
243 - new Section "Package's information" under Resources
244 Document http://packages.debian.org/<package>,
245 http://bugs.debian.org/<package> and the madison utility
246 - Sec "Reporting bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/from:email@isp.com
247 - Sec "Handling bugs": added http://bugs.debian.org/login@debian.org
248 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and
249 also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774
251 - Sec "Developer Database": added a sentence about finger
253 - update the total number of packages and the example directory tree
255 - updated the list of available architectures.
256 - commented out the "Subsections" section since it will RSN have nothing
257 to with the Debian archive. It's just a generic information field
258 of the package and nothing more.
259 - added more incentive to use experimental since it doesn't cause
260 any pain to the ftpmasters.
261 - Sec "When to do a source NMU": updated the NMU "protocol" and suggest
262 the use of the delayed queue.
263 - new Section "Acknowledging the NMUs" to explain the need to integrate
264 the changes introduced by NMUs. Insists on the fact that one shouldn't
266 - stubbed in new Section "Collaborative maintenance"
267 - stubbed in new Section "The Package Tracking System"
268 - Sec "The Package Tracking System": filled with content from
269 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, heavily updated by myself
270 - new Section "Managing sponsored packages" contributed by
271 Francesco Paolo Lovergine, slightly updated by myself
272 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519
274 - new Sec "Documentation"
275 - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter
276 - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. Mention it in the section
277 "Being kind to porter" too
278 - extended Sec "devscripts" with info about "bts" and "uscan"
279 - completed Sec "Helper scripts"
280 - completed Sec "Package with multiple patches",
281 "Multiple binary packages", "Libraries", "Other specific packages",
282 "The wise use of debconf" -- all those are quite simplistic, they
284 - integrated Sec "Handling debconf translations" contributed by
285 Denis Barbier -- thanks, Denis!
288 - update French translation
290 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400
292 developers-reference (2.11) unstable; urgency=low
295 - some grammar corrections
296 - update French translation
298 - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
299 anymore; closes: #135559
300 - also talk about dput a tiny bit
302 - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
304 - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
305 that would be welcome)
306 - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
307 - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
308 - dput: new section, closes: #129378
309 - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
310 - dpkg-dev-el: new section
311 - other minor wording changes
312 - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
313 - Ch "Package uploads":
314 - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
315 - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
316 - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
317 - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
318 - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
319 - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
320 * old bugs closed out, closes: #110573
322 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:34:08 -0700
324 developers-reference (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
326 * from Martin Michlmayr
327 - update the "Applying to Become a New Maintainer" section, with
328 review by Raphael Hertzog, closes: #133965
329 - bugs closed in NMUs should uses 'closes' changelog entries,
331 - developers are not required to subscribe to debian-private
333 - some suggestions on places to use the proper term, Debian GNU/Linux,
335 - fix some typos, closes: #133956
337 - frozen doesn't exist anymore, just testing; note, however, that
338 there is a way to upload to 'woody-proposed-updates' -- if I can
339 find some description of that, I'll document it; closes: #133948
342 - isolate a few more language-independent bits
344 - change /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and typo in debian/copyright,
347 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:46:46 -0500
349 developers-reference (2.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
352 - created a new subsection about uploading to stable, and elaborated
354 - removed a stray sentence about stable from the paragraph about
355 security uploads (which apply to all distributions equally)
356 - replaced the nonexistent term "Security Manager" with "security officer"
357 - uploading to stable and unstable is deprecated; updated the section
358 about the experimental distribution; other fixes in the section
359 talking about uploading to distributions
360 - better organize some subsections in the section about package uploads
361 - replaced some bogus <ftppath>s with <tt>s
362 - noted how there is an upload queue on pandora, too
364 - French translation updated
366 - normalize '--' as — for prettier output
367 - integrate changes from James Troup, part of #102626
368 - typo fix thanks to Mark Hodge
370 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:03:01 -0400
372 developers-reference (2.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
375 - a few more strong words about sponsoring
376 - started a new chapter about the relationship between old and new
379 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:53:47 -0400
381 developers-reference (2.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
384 * fix a typo in a link
385 * dpkg-buildpackage -m<addr> flag was changed for -e<addr> when NMU'ing;
386 update documentation accordingly
388 * Matt Zimmerman fixes up some wording in the section talking about
389 forwarding bugs upstream
391 * provide proper l10n for SGML date entities; now we have &date-<LANG>
392 entities which should be used
393 * debian/rules: fixes for new debiandoc-sgml
394 * debian/control: depend on debiandoc-sgml 1.1.48 or better
396 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:43:42 -0400
398 developers-reference (2.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
400 * fix a typo, thanks to Antoine Hulin
401 * French version: completely up-to-date now
402 * Makefile: add a 'validate' target
403 * prepare and ship "upstream" ChangeLog; move the debian changelog to
405 * all versions: change the email address to use when orphaning
408 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 03:32:08 -0400
410 developers-reference (2.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
412 * expunge references to the Debian Packaging Manual, which is now in the
414 * Japanese version: also comment out some references packaging manual;
415 this translation needs updating
416 * deny request to shut down non-maintainer bug maintenance bug closure
417 practices (closes: Bug#88623)
418 * add some advice about U.S. citizens uploading to non-US
420 * debian/control: Build-Depends should have been Build-Depends-Indep
421 * French version: First complete translation of the Debian developer's
422 reference guide. Much work done by Antoine Hulin. Reviewed by Nicolas
424 * Portuguese version: work is started by Carlos Laviola, nothing
425 included yet, however
427 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:25:51 -0400
429 developers-reference (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
431 * debian/control: remove reference to obsolete packaging-manual package
433 * debian/control: fill in the description a bit more
434 * doc-base: index.html corrected to be index.en.html
436 * Makefile: clean is cleaner
438 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:47:06 -0500
440 developers-reference (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
442 * build and provide French and Japanese versions
443 * devolve build logic from debian/rules to top-level Makefile
444 * developers-reference.jp.sgml: minor changes so it will build (is out
446 * debian/rules: stop making useless /usr/share/developers-reference dir
448 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:02:02 -0500
450 developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
453 - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
454 - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
455 - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
456 most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
457 software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
458 mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
459 month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
460 the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
461 updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
462 URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
463 - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
464 important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
466 - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
467 sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
468 - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
469 required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
470 it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
472 - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
474 * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual
475 * update copyright notice for 2001
476 * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
477 * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
478 * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
480 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:10:21 -0500
482 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
484 * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon
486 * spelling corrections, awkward grammar suggestions from Andreas Krueger
488 * debian/rules: remove some obsolete source-depends stuff
490 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:22:21 -0500
492 developers-reference (2.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Almost all changes for this release are from Josip Rodin
495 <joy@debian.org>. Thanks, Josip!
497 * debian/control, postinst, prerm, rules: Policy 3.2.1 (closes:
498 Bug#68929, Bug#70384)
499 * fixed bug closing example (closes: Bug#71198)
500 * update the perl regexp from current /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian
501 * updated keyring/keyserver information (closes: Bug#67783)
502 * updated new-maintainer stuff (closes: Bug#67841)
503 * updated for master -> ftp-master move (closes: Bug#68369)
504 * noted www.d.o is the right host for web pages, but all other machines
505 could be used if necessary
506 * reorder mentions of scp to come before FTP, as it is more secure;
507 mention the rsync dupload method
508 * reorder mentions of pandora <-> non-us, canonical name non-us is
510 * other small corrections
511 * fixed orphaning/adopting instructions with regard to the new WNPP
512 * common.ent: fix urls for cvs.d.o, wnpp, Debian machines page,
513 lists-archives, www.d.o BTS
514 * common.ent: changed link for machines from devel/maintainer_contacts
516 * Makefile: remove unnecessary subshell
518 * Adam's change: update debian/copyright for new Policy, and put my name
519 in there a bit with updated years; update doc-base file for FHS
521 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2000 03:25:21 -0400
523 developers-reference (2.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
525 * I believe this should go into frozen because (a) it's only
526 documentation, so it can't introduce RC bugs, and (b) it fixes an
527 error which prevented it from building properly; however, whatever
528 ftpmaster feels is best is fine
530 * include common.ent as well as version.ent
531 (closes: Bug#52582, Bug#48926)
532 * debian/rules: fix build error caused by newer debiandoc-sgml; remove
533 constitution.en.html, since that is now located in the doc-debian
534 package (closes: Bug#54778, Bug#42014); don't compress .pdf file
536 * All changes below from Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
538 * Sec. "Uploading to master" and "Uploading to pandora":
539 explained dinstall -n (closes: Bug#45079)
540 * Sec. "Picking a distribution": added reference to the debian-release
541 team (closes: Bug#52906)
542 * Sec. "Announcing package uploads": rewrote it to take care of the fact
543 that dinstall is doing it automatically (closes: Bug#43877)
544 * Sec. "Mailing lists": added a paragraph about debian-email
546 * Changed the "Maintaining Your Debian Information" into "Debian
547 Developer's Duties" (closes: Bug#28908)
548 - added a section about the LDAP database
549 - added a section about the "on vacation" message
550 - added a section about the coordination with upstream developers
552 - added a section about managing Release Critical bugs
553 - added a section about Quality Assurance effort
555 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:24:33 -0400
557 developers-reference (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": we are transitioning away
560 from non-free PGP -- remove allusions to non-free software such as
561 PGPv2 or v5 insofar as possible; recommend use of DSS keys rather than
563 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": remove PGP-centric stuff
564 * Sec. "When bugs are closed by new uploads": describe how to close bugs
565 via a magic changelog entry (closes: Bug#43690)
566 * Sec. "Generating the changes file": refer to Sec. "When bugs are
567 closed by new uploads" for closing bugs via a changelog entry
568 * developers-reference.sgml: re-enable RCS variables in CVS sources
569 * debian/control,rules: dynamically generate the TOC in the package
570 description from developers-reference.sgml
572 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:15:59 -0400
574 developers-reference (2.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
576 * developers-reference.sgml: separated out language-independant elements
577 into common.ent (not content changes); misc minor grammar changes
579 * doc-base: change section for *constitution* to Debian (not 'debian')
581 * Sec. "Stable, unstable, and sometimes frozen": mention how old stable
582 releases are available at archive.debian.org
583 * Sec. "Uploading to pandora (non-us)" added, remove stale
584 information about the old anonymous ftp area (closes Bug#39541);
585 Sec. "Other Upload Queues" added about that upload queues, added
586 samosa and master.debian.org.jp (closes Bug#37804)
587 * Sec. "Yada": mention that yada might not be as robust as other package
588 producing systems, at request of the author; Sec. "equivs" added
589 * Sec. "Moving packages": at the request of Guy Maor, clarify that this
590 procedure is for moving packages in sections (i.e., free, contrib)
592 * Sec. "Registering as a Debian developer": talk about RSA keys rather
593 than PGP keys, since I think GPG can create/handle them now; mention
594 that the official pkg maintainer address much match an ID on your key;
595 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key": beef up the warnings a bit; point
597 * Sec. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": clean up and
598 clarify section; mention that all developers are expected to be
599 subscribed to debian-private and debian-devel-announce
600 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": remove list of machines; point to
601 http://www.debian.org/devel/machines instead
602 * Sec. "Release code names": potato is 2.2
603 * Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads": talk about recompile only
604 uploads and version numbers for this (i.e., foo_2.4-1.0.1), from a
605 suggestion from James Troup
606 * Sec. "buildd": mention andrea, and buildd.debian.org
607 * Sec. "Removing packages": correct apt-cache usage
608 * debain/rules: update standards to 3.0.1 -- since I'm not moving
609 /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc yet, no changes were required except in the
612 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:45 -0400
614 developers-reference (2.6.8) unstable; urgency=low
616 * when applying as a new user, the login name can be *eight* characters,
617 not seven (thanks to Rafael Caetano dos Santos)
619 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 21:50:04 -0400
621 developers-reference (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
623 * SGML'ish: normalize SGML elements, refill paragraphs (closes Bug#37987)
624 * doc-base: change section to Debian -- hmm, this looks like a doc-base
625 bug, really, but hey, who am I to refile bugs to another one of my own
626 packages? (closes Bug#37392)
627 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": new section for yada (um,
628 someone who uses this should check my description), correct build ->
629 debuild in the devscripts section (closes Bug#38053)
631 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 1999 01:41:45 -0400
633 developers-reference (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Sec. "The master server": note that problems on Debian ftp can be sent
636 to ftpmaster@debian.org also
637 * Secs. "Uploads via chiark" and "Uploads via erlangen": remove
638 'cron-driven' (thanks Roman Hodek)
639 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": typos corrected, note that binary-arch
640 and binary-indep targets should work independantly (thanks Roman
642 * Sec. "buildd": remove erroneous reference to debbuild, reorganize the
643 section and correct typos (thank again Roman -- boy, this is the all
645 * debian/rules: re-enable letter-sized PDFs
647 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 01:17:29 -0400
649 developers-reference (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Sec. "Architectures": correction on supported architecture in Linux
653 * Sec. "Experimental": other reasons to use or not use the experiment
654 archive "section", from comments by Guy Maor
655 * Sec. "Being Kind to Porters": replace x86 with i386 (closes Bug#36485)
656 * debian/rules: date printing protected from local l10n (closes Bug#36891)
657 * Ch. "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines": renamed chapter; add
659 * Sec. "Debian Servers": new, for talking about the standard servers,
660 with intro; demoted server sections under that
661 * Sec. "The FTP servers": was empty, removed
662 * Sec. "The master server": fill in more info and cross-refs on how to
664 * Sec. "The CVS server": add some more detail which should be included
665 when requesting cvs areas; mention the cvsweb URL
666 * Sec. "Other Debian Machines": new section, list the machines for which
667 a normal developer may have access.
669 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 03:32:21 -0400
671 developers-reference (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
673 * debian/rules: hack 'byhand' file entries to include debian version
674 number in it, so subsequent uploads of the package into Incoming don't
675 step all over each other
677 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:04:04 -0400
679 developers-reference (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=low
681 * correction from James Troup -- <keyring-maint> is indeed the correct
682 address for PGP key updates
684 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:28:58 -0400
686 developers-reference (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is not replacing anything after all
689 * developers-reference.sgml: use public declaration
690 * BTW, if any maintainers of translated versions of this document would
691 like to talk to me about folding your version into the
692 developers-reference CVS area, please get in touch with me
694 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:42:29 -0400
696 developers-reference (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
698 * include Debian constitution (closes Bug#30694)
699 * Sec. "fakeroot": libtricks is replacing fakeroot, not libtool
700 * Sec. "Maintaining Your Public Key" -- give email addresses as
701 {pgp,gpg}-update@debian.org, at James Troup's request (note to Jameas,
702 if you see this: /usr/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz talks about
703 <keyring-maint> instead)
704 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" -- add Sec. "debget"
705 * developers-reference.sgml: minor typo correction from Tril
707 * doc-base stuff: add abstract to developers-reference, new file for
709 * debian/rules: minor cleanup and consistency; build PDF, not PS file;
710 ship PDF file;.text file now has .txt extension
711 * debian/control: set priority to optional, matching archive
713 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:17:06 -0500
715 developers-reference (2.6.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
717 * would be nice to sneak this into slink; it's just documentation!
718 * Ch. "Porting and Being Ported": porter information broken out into it's
719 own chapter, Sec. "Guidelines for Porter Uploads" and "When to do a
720 source NMU if you are a porter" moved to this chapter; porter tool
721 descriptions such as 'quinn-diff' moved to this section. Sec. "Being
722 Kind to Porters" added, with tips for how to avoid making problems for
724 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)": update for the new chapter, and
725 tighten up the language a bit
726 * Sec. "Monitoring bugs": add a little cron job to get an 'index maint'
727 of outstanding bugs (closes Bug#31259), loosen language a tiny bit
728 w.r.t. non-maintainers or submitters closing bugs (closes Bug#30394)
729 * Sec. "Scope of This Document": point out that this file is not
731 * Ch. "Handling Bugs": renamed from "Handling Bug Reports", incorporate
732 some suggestions from James Troup, namely, don't mail from your root
733 account, don't close bugs via control@bugs.debian.org; break out new
734 sections, "Submitting Bugs" and "Responding to Bugs"
735 * Ch. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": remove attribution for
736 package maintainers, since I can't keep up; add entries for fakeroot
738 * Ch. "Maintaining Your Debian Information": new chapter, quite small
739 right now; it mentions keyring-maint@debian.org for key modification,
740 warns against putting private keys on multi-user machines, and talks
741 about how to depart Debian gracefully
742 * typo correction from Christian Hudon (closes Bug#32052)
743 * menu file removed, obsoleted by doc-base file
744 * parameterize some often-changing values with SGML entities, update
745 number of available packages
746 * use new way of notating multiple copyrights
747 * change <tt> elements to <file> where appropriate
749 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:53:55 -0500
751 developers-reference (2.5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
753 * add version.ent to docdir, needed to reconstruct from SGML
756 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:42:50 -0500
758 developers-reference (2.5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
760 * not officially released
761 * more spelling corrections
762 * s/ppc/powerpc/ (thanks, James Troup)
764 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:40 -0500
766 developers-reference (2.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
768 * not officially released
769 * Sec. "Removing a package from Incoming": tiny section added
770 * some PGP-centricity removed
771 * Sec. "Adopting a package": point out that hijacking packages is not ok
772 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": change 'NMU' to
773 'source NMU', 'port' to 'binary NMU', shorten the window for porters a
774 tad; fix spelling; stress that non-maintainer patches must be
775 non-disruptive and that aesthetic issues are not suitable for fixing
776 by non-maintainers; other fixes as suggested by interested parties
778 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:01:27 -0500
780 developers-reference (2.5.0.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
782 * not officially released
783 * maintainer name change (but it's still me)
784 * Ch. "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters": new chapter
785 discussing NMUs and porters; Section "Interim Releases" integrated out
786 of existance. New TOC for this section is:
787 * 6 Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and Porters
788 + 6.1 Who can do a port or an NMU
789 + 6.2 When to do a port or an NMU
790 o 6.2.1 When to do an NMU if you are a porter
791 + 6.3 How to do an NMU
792 o 6.3.1 NMU version numbering
793 o 6.3.2 NMUs must create a changelog entry
794 o 6.3.3 NMUs must send patches, if any, to the BTS
795 o 6.3.4 Building the NMU
796 + 6.4 Guidelines for Porters
798 * Sec. "Maintainer changes": renamed to "Adopting a package" and moved
799 to Chapter "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning
801 * Sec. "Reporting lots of bugs at once": more forcefully deprecate this
803 * Sec. "Adopting a package": mention that the BTS maintainer update can
804 take a couple of weeks
805 * Sec. "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools": give credit where credit
806 is due and attribute current maintainers; add `apt'; add `quinn-diff';
807 add mention of as yet unreleased 'buildd' package, since I'm so
808 excited about it and can't wait
809 * Sec. "Removing packages": talk about how apt-cache can be used to look
810 at reverse depends, a good step to take prior to removing a package
812 * show *full* TOC, including sect2
813 * of course the obligatory typo, grammar, and spelling corrections
815 * Makefile: small changes to accomodate DDP autobuild
816 * debian/dirs: obsolete, removed
817 * debian/rules: use changelog date for SGML timestamping, not current date
819 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:27:53 -0500
821 developers-reference (2.5.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
823 * move to 3-level version number:
824 top-level version number probably won't change for a while, it is the
825 "major", the second-level number means significant content changes,
826 and the third-level change means corrections and minor improvements.
827 Since this version has significant content changes, we are now 2.5.0.
828 Since I'm going to put porter instructions in the next major rev, that
831 * use new <package> tag where appropriate (Ardo, you rock)
832 * replace 'm86k' with 'm68k'
833 * rename 'Whirlwind Tour of ...' section to 'Overview of ...' (suggested
835 * typos and "red-pen" corrections, fix cosmetic problems in PostScript
837 * remove the one case I use an URL fragment identifier, since
838 debiandoc-sgml doesn't like it (bug filed against debiandoc-sgml)
839 * debian/rules: cosmetic cleanups, loosen check for root
840 * debian/rules: build PostScript version during build, since it's nice
841 to have all my debiandoc2* scripts together
842 * debian/control: policy compliant to 2.5.0
844 * advise against uploading when a package has lintian problems of
846 * "Mailing Lists and Servers":
847 - "The master server": mention how master is the home of the BTS;
848 mention how users need to take care with their accounts on master
849 - "The WWW servers": fill in www.debian.org, first pass, and discuss
850 how to put up your own web pages on va or master
851 - "The CVS server": new section added
852 - "Mirrors of Debian servers": new section added; point to info about
854 * "Applying to Become a Maintainer": do not advise resending initial
855 application; instead, simply mail a followup asking new maintainers
856 whether they go the initial application (closes Bug #28739); mention
857 that calls usually come in the evening; mention that if you use PGP
858 v5, you need to generate an RSA key (right?); clarify our intentions
860 * "Release code names": Debian 2.2 is 'potato'
861 * "Distribution directories": give concrete examples, hopefully making
862 it clearer where to look in Debian archives for specific stuff;
863 mention that old distributions are moved to archive servers (is there
864 a canonical location?)
865 * "The override file": new section, added under "Notification that a new
866 package has been installed"; fill it out quite a bit
867 * "Uploading to *": reiterate thrice not to upload export
868 controlled-software to master, or the European queues on erlangen and
870 * "Picking a distribution": section broken out from "Generating the
872 * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
873 (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
874 * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run
875 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
877 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:43 -0500
879 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Fix instructions for new maintainers, incorporating the actual text
882 sent to prospective new maintainers. Improve this text a bit for
883 readability, coverage, and organization. Significant changes were
884 patched back to the new-maintainers group, if they care to use
885 them. (closes Bug#26948)
886 * Add an introductory "Scope" chapter which helps delineate what should
887 and should not be included in this Reference.
888 * Add a new chapter, "Whirlwind Tour of Debian Maintainer Tools". Let
889 me know what useful tools I forgot -- remember, Debian-specific
890 maintainer tools only!
891 * Add discussion of the "experimental" distribution, culled from an email
892 from Guy Maor on debian-devel.
893 * Incorporated suggestions from Branden Robinson (closes Bug#27211).
894 * Point to doc-debian's mailing list instructions where relevant.
895 * Made references to online documentation into URLs where possible.
896 * Little corrections here and there.
897 * add a Makefile for use in the DDP manual hierarchy
898 * debian/rules: comment out my 'source-depends' hack; it's just slowing
901 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:42:43 -0400
903 developers-reference (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
905 * fill in Section "The master server" a bit; other servers to follow
906 * in Section "Distribution directories", mention that distributions
907 are always in 'dists' subdir of the Debian archive; talk about
909 * in Section "Release code names", talk about 'sid' a bit
910 * in Section "Interim releases", talk about how non-maintainers should
911 use the BTS, and bug severity "fixed" (closes Bug#17524)
912 * in Section "Generating the changes file", talk about how to set the
913 distribution in the debian/changelog file (i.e., "frozen unstable")
914 * add a new Section "Checking the package prior to upload" to Section
915 "Uploading a package", mentioning lintian and other tests one should
916 do prior to uploading
917 * add new Section "Notification that a new package has been installed"
918 in Section "Uploading a package", talking about dinstall and the
920 * add new Sections "Moving packages", "Removing packages", "Replacing or
921 renaming packages", and "Orphaning a package" (closes Bug#26650)
922 * add new Section "Bugs in your packages", talking about maintainer
923 duties with respect to bugs
924 * add new Section "Lintian reports" under "Handling bugs reports",
925 talking about how maintainers should check their packages with lintian
926 every now and then, alternatively pointing them to the lintian web
928 * clarify, a bit, the use of "section" and "subsection", bringing it
929 into line with the usage in the Policy Manual and Packaging Manual
930 * grammar and markup changes throughout
931 * debian/rules: added a crude source-depends rule, which renders more
932 explicit what is used to build this package
934 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0400
936 developers-reference (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
939 * version number and date are automatically populated now
940 * changed doc-base section to "debian"
941 * debian/rules: better abstraction and organization
942 * reformat SGML like I happen to like it
943 * utilize the new URL tag
944 * build PostScript on letter size, I hear thats better for A4 and US
947 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:52:35 -0400
949 developers-reference (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
951 * non-maintainer release
952 * rebuilt since HTML versions of Chapters 1 and 2 were truncated
953 (important bug, no number yet, bugs.debian.org isn't working;
954 regardless, this should go in hamm because a broken developers
955 reference won't win us many friends in hamm, and after all, it's just
956 text, it can't hurt you.)
957 * no content changes, except that the version number in the SGML file
958 reflect this packages version number
959 * debian/rule: clean is cleaner now
961 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:35:39 -0400
963 developers-reference (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
967 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:56:36 +0200
969 developers-reference (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
971 * New version numbering scheme:
973 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
974 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
975 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
978 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
979 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
980 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
981 differ between the manuals.
983 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
984 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
985 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
986 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
988 * Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
989 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
991 * No changes to the Developer's Reference
993 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:54:43 +0200
995 developers-reference (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
999 - Changed section 1.2 Registering as a Debian developer:
1000 + signatures from formal certification service are _NOT_ accepted
1002 + images of ID documents have to be PGP or RSA signed
1003 (as requested by James Troup)
1005 - Use current date instead of <date> in manual
1007 * Updated FSF's address (reported by Lintian)
1009 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:52:15 +0100
1011 developers-reference (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Changes to the Developer's Reference:
1015 - Renamed chapter 4 into `Package uploads'
1017 - New section 4.2.5 Uploading to the non-us server
1019 - Changed section 4.4 Interim releases:
1020 + non-maintainer releases should not close bugs
1021 + normal maintainer must at least read the patch provided with
1022 the non-maintainer release
1024 - New chapter 5 Handling bug reports:
1025 + when reporting more then 10 bugs on the same topic, a message
1026 has to be sent to debian-devel and the `maintonly' address
1029 - Lots of typos fixed
1031 * Compressed SGML source code
1033 * Added support for doc-base to register the Developer's Reference
1034 to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp
1036 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1038 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:34 +0100
1040 developers-reference (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Put lost sections from Policy Manual 2.1.3.3 back in:
1043 - Generating the changes file (for uploads)
1044 - Announcing package uploads
1045 * New section about Debian Mentors
1046 * debian/rules: Don't use debstd anymore
1047 * debian/rules: Compress changelog file (fixes:#15441)
1048 * Fixed link to WNPP list (fixes:#16201)
1049 * Added menu entry (fixes:#15708)
1051 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:33 +0100
1053 developers-reference (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * New chapter about `The Debian Archive' describing the structure
1056 of our FTP server and the development process
1057 * Added note that new maintainers have to read the Social Contract
1058 and have to know where to find the Policy and Packaging Manuals
1059 * PGP key ring is not distributed via dpkg but in doc/ of the FTP
1061 * Added note that cross posting between Debian lists is depreciated
1062 * New list of advantages why new packages should be discussed on
1063 debian-devel before they are uploaded
1064 * Added section about how packages are uploaded
1065 * Added note that the Security Managers may do interim releases without
1066 contacting the maintainer
1067 * Removed chapter about bug tracking system (will be included in
1068 a new manual released soon)
1069 * Some minor changes
1070 * Include SGML source in package
1071 * Don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version
1072 * Upgraded to Standards 2.3.0.1
1074 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:53:26 +0100
1076 developers-reference (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1080 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:19:49 +0200