-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:18:19 -0400 Source: developers-reference Binary: developers-reference Architecture: source all Version: 3.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Changed-By: Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Description: developers-reference - Debian Developer's Reference Closes: 39519 53109 102626 110310 114553 123586 129445 129848 130255 135560 135562 136774 142798 145039 Changes: developers-reference (3.0) unstable; urgency=low . * Adam Di Carlo: - welcome Manoj Srivastava as a co-maintainer - welcome Raphael Hertzog as a co-maintainer . - new Chapter "Resource for Debian Developers", incorporating the former chapters Ch "Mailing Lists, Servers, and Other Machines" Ch "The Debian Archive" . - new Chapter "Managing Packages", incorporating former chapters Ch "Package uploads" Ch "Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)" Ch "Porting and Being Ported" Ch "Moving, Removing, Renaming, Adopting, and Orphaning Packages" Ch "Handling Bugs" (retitled "Handling package bugs") Sec "Bug housekeeping" (new section, some parts stubbed out) . - new Chapter "Beyond Packaging" recommends ways to contribute to Debian beyond issues of package maintenance; incoporates Ch "Interaction with Prospective Developers", retitled to Sec "Interacting with Prospective Debian Developers" Sec "Submitting Bugs", renamed to "Reporting Bugs" Sec "QA" moved here from old Sec "Quality Assurance effort" Sec "Dealing with unreachable maintainers" . - Sec "The Developers Database" added under Resources - new Sec "Collaborative Maintenance" concerning multiple maintainers for one package . - Sec "Getting started": add link to New Maintainers' Guide - Sec "Debian Mentors" renamed to "Debian Mentors and Sponsors", we add some info on sponsoring; also in Sec "Sponsoring packages" - Section's first word capitalized, rest are normal case - purge a reference to the Packaging Manual; closes: #145039 - misc. cross-referencing with new or moved sections - change some literal quotes to ‘, ”, etc. - tagging improvements: replace <tt> with <file> for files and directories; since <tt><var> and <example><var> doesn't look right, work-around with <...> - entity'ize master.debian.org, us-upload-dir, non-us-upload-dir - update copyright date - some simplifications on the TeX suffix rule - spell check and grammar corrections - s/GPG/GnuPG/ . * Raphael Hertzog: - changed -e by -m in the dpkg-buildpackage command line example; closes: #110310 - clarify wording between "porter upload", "binary-only NMU", "simple recompile"; closes: #102626 - extended "removing a package"; closes: #135560 - Ch "Best Packaging Practices": new chapter, including new Sec "Writing useful descriptions" as a first entry in that chapter; closes: #53109, #129848 - indicate 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 - explain how 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 - Sec "The Incoming system" in "Resources", describe how it works and also speak of the DELAYED directory; closes: #135562, #136774 - 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 pain 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" - 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 - new Sec "Bug housekeeping"; closes: #39519 - new Sec "Voting" - new Sec "Documentation" - added Sec "IRC channels" in the Resources chapter - added Sec "pbuilder" in the appendix. 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