* clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"

  * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)

git-svn-id: svn://anonscm.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference@1085 313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 56b42aaadb3ea6ea5b6e7b775aaae5569c84f5db..57ab440835b72e52638d27a0a58fd494114f6b94 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,35 @@
+developers-reference (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Josip Rodin:
+    - fix typographic errors reported by David Martinez (closes: Bug#80740)
+    - common.ent: upped the numbers a little bit, updated lintian reports URL
+    - updated regarding va->klecker move, and www->people move, changed
+      most mentions of dinstall to a generic term "archive maintenance
+      software", removed full path to it because it is in PATH now,
+      mentioned "dak" and "katie" (somewhat vaguely), changed week to
+      month regarding FTP archive waiting time since that\'s more often
+      the case, and changed weeks to hours regarding Maintainers file
+      updates since that\'s also more often the case now, updated some
+      URLs to entities, s/debian-doc/doc-debian/
+    - replaced evil latin1-only quotation marks, replaced mentions of
+      important severity (in RCB context) with serious severity, some
+      details fixed
+    - common.ent (1.10): fixed email-debian-user alias; updated
+      sample-dist-dirtree (with more to come)
+    - described testing; described package pools (this particular part
+      required quite a bit of changes, and it might be a bit rough, but
+      it's a start); described the frozen test cycles et al; some other
+      smaller fixes
+    - another update WRT sid/unstable/testing, from Colin Watson
+      (closes: Bug#80896)
+  * debian/control: add Recommends for debian-policy, packaging-manual 
+  * update copyright notice for 2001
+  * fix for WNPP bug filing severities from David Schleef
+  * clarify the status of the Developers's reference as "normative"
+  * add a reference to debconf (closes: Bug#82413)
+
+ -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>  Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:08:46 -0500
+
 developers-reference (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * update WNPP instructions, based on patch from Marcelo E. Magallon 

diff --git a/developers-reference.sgml b/developers-reference.sgml
index 0b954d4337f700fec23f826cb271f46d5622a5f9..a16315578dc105b9cd3d3bad14584e972940013c 100644 (file)
--- a/developers-reference.sgml
+++ b/developers-reference.sgml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <!-- common, language independant entities -->
   <!entity % commondata  SYSTEM "common.ent" > %commondata;
   <!-- CVS revision of this document -->
-  <!entity cvs-rev "$Revision: 1.49 $">
+  <!entity cvs-rev "$Revision: 1.50 $">
 
   <!-- if you are translating this document, please notate the RCS
        revision of the developers reference here -->
@@ -84,8 +84,9 @@ be found in the <url id="&url-debian-policy;" name="Debian Policy
 Manual">.
       <p>
 Furthermore, this document is <em>not an expression of formal
-policy</em>.  It contains documentation for the Debian system, and
-generally agreed-upon best practices.
+policy</em>.  It contains documentation for the Debian system and
+generally agreed-upon best practices.  Thus, it is what is called a
+``normative'' document.
 
 
     <chapt id="new-maintainer">Applying to Become a Maintainer
@@ -1965,6 +1966,21 @@ of Debian policy as well as some checks for common errors.  The use of
 id="upload-checking"> and <ref id="lintian-reports">.
 
 
+      <sect id="debconf">
+        <heading><package>debconf</package></heading>
+        <p>
+<package>debconf</package> provides a consistent interface to
+configuring packages interactively.  It is user interface
+intedependant, allowing end-users to configure packages with a
+text-only interface, an HTML interface, or a dialog interface.  New
+interfaces can be added modularly.
+        <p>
+Many feel that this system should be used for all packages requiring
+interactive configuration.  <package>debconf</package> is not
+currently required by Debian Policy, however, that may change in the
+future.
+
+
       <sect id="debhelper">
        <heading><package>debhelper</package>
        <p>