SRM changes; #414291

[developers-reference.git] / developers-reference.sgml

diff --git a/developers-reference.sgml b/developers-reference.sgml
index 939f1b60bee971004191461a5afd8989fa613ca9..903282b620db2a5964d7db1b874b662364b8b3ba 100644 (file)
--- a/developers-reference.sgml
+++ b/developers-reference.sgml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <!ENTITY % dynamicdata  SYSTEM "dynamic.ent" > %dynamicdata;
 
   <!-- CVS revision of this document -->
-  <!ENTITY cvs-rev "$Revision: 1.315 $">
+  <!ENTITY cvs-rev "$Revision: 1.316 $">
 
   <!-- if you are translating this document, please notate the CVS
        revision of the original developer's reference in cvs-en-rev -->
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 
       <copyright>
        <copyrightsummary>
-copyright &copy; 2004&mdash;2006 Andreas Barth</copyrightsummary>
+copyright &copy; 2004&mdash;2007 Andreas Barth</copyrightsummary>
        <copyrightsummary>
 copyright &copy; 1998&mdash;2003 Adam Di Carlo</copyrightsummary>
        <copyrightsummary>
@@ -1820,9 +1820,11 @@ at the same time.
        <sect1 id="upload-stable">
           <heading>Special case: uploads to the <em>stable</em> distribution</heading>
          <p>
-Uploading to <em>stable</em> means that the package will be placed into the
-<file>stable-proposed-updates</file> directory of the Debian archive for further
-testing before it is actually included in <em>stable</em>.
+Uploading to <em>stable</em> means that the package will transfered to the
+<em>p-u-new</em>-queue for review by the stable release managers, and
+if approved will be installed in
+<file>stable-proposed-updates</file> directory of the Debian archive.
+From there, it will be included in <em>stable</em> with the next point release.
          <p>
 Extra care should be taken when uploading to <em>stable</em>. Basically, a
 package should only be uploaded to stable if one of the following happens:
@@ -1851,7 +1853,7 @@ packages (by messing with <tt>Provides</tt> or shlibs files), possibly making
 those other packages uninstallable, is strongly discouraged.
          <p>
 The Release Team (which can be reached at &email-debian-release;) will
-regularly evaluate the uploads in <em>stable-proposed-updates</em> and decide if
+regularly evaluate the uploads To <em>stable-proposed-updates</em> and decide if
 your package can be included in <em>stable</em>. Please be clear (and
 verbose, if necessary) in your changelog entries for uploads to
 <em>stable</em>, because otherwise the package won't be considered for