-Prospective Packages (WNPP)"> list. Checking the WNPP ensures that no
-one is already working on packaging that software, and that effort is
-not duplicated. Assuming no one else is already working on your
-prospective package, you must then send a short email to
-&email-debian-devel; describing your plan to create a new package.
-You should set the subject of the email to ``intent to package
-<var>foo</var>'', substituting the name of the new package for
-<var>foo</var>.
- <p>
-There are a number of reasons why we ask maintainers to follow these
-steps:
+Prospective Packages (WNPP)"> list. Checking the WNPP list ensures that
+no one is already working on packaging that software, and that effort is
+not duplicated. Read the <url id="&url-wnpp;" name="WNPP web pages"> for
+more information.
+ <p>
+Assuming no one else is already working on your prospective package,
+you must then submit a short bug (<ref id="submit-bug">) against the
+pseudo package <tt>wnpp</tt> and send a copy to &email-debian-devel;
+describing your plan to create a new package, including, but not
+limiting yourself to, a description of the package, the license of the
+prospective package and the current URL where it can be downloaded
+from. You should set the subject of the bug to ``ITP: <var>foo</var>
+-- <var>short description</var>'', substituting the name of the new
+package for <var>foo</var>. The severity of the bug report must be
+set to <em>wishlist</em>. Please include a <tt>Closes:
+bug#<var>nnnnn</var></tt> entry on the changelog of the new package in
+order for the bug report to be automatically closed once the new
+package is installed on the archive (<ref id="upload-bugfix">).
+ <p>
+There are a number of reasons why we ask maintainers to announce their
+intentions: