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Modified Sun Apr 28 13:52:49 2013 UTC (3 weeks, 6 days ago) by hertzog
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Drop paragraph about vanilla debian/rules files which mainly points to a no-longer working link.

The rest of the sentence doesn't bring any value. People are always free
to use whatever works for them since the developers-reference is about
guidelines and not rules.

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Modified Mon Jun 25 19:00:50 2012 UTC (10 months, 4 weeks ago) by hertzog
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Reword various parts to be gender-neutral

Thanks to Per Andersson and Steve Langasek for the patch.

Closes: #678712

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Modified Tue Jan 10 07:33:56 2012 UTC (16 months, 2 weeks ago) by hertzog
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Update best practice about unfuzzying PO file translations to recommend msguntypot.

Thanks to David Prévot for the patch.

Acked-by: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
Closes: #655153

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Modified Sun Dec 4 06:46:36 2011 UTC (17 months, 3 weeks ago) by henrich
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fix typo (interrested -> interested)

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Modified Wed Oct 12 07:50:39 2011 UTC (19 months, 1 week ago) by hertzog
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Refresh some ftpmaster-related information. Closes: #643932 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.

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Modified Sat Sep 10 21:55:25 2011 UTC (20 months, 2 weeks ago) by taffit
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Fix typos spotted while updating the French translation

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Modified Tue Sep 6 07:26:22 2011 UTC (20 months, 2 weeks ago) by hertzog
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Document some best practices for meta-packages. Extend those for transitional packages. Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org> (thanks!). Closes: #569219

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Modified Thu Apr 21 08:23:15 2011 UTC (2 years, 1 month ago) by hertzog
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Many typos fixed by Chris Leick <c.leick@vollbio.de>. Closes: #623512

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Modified Sat Jun 5 14:08:56 2010 UTC (2 years, 11 months ago) by taffit-guest
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Minor changes: tags, typos, links and other cosmetic changes.

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Modified Mon May 31 23:40:18 2010 UTC (2 years, 11 months ago) by taffit-guest
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  * Apply updated patch from Nicolas François. Closes: #257150

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Modified Mon May 31 23:19:56 2010 UTC (2 years, 11 months ago) by taffit-guest
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Minor changes: tags, typos, updates and other cosmetic changes

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Modified Sun Jan 3 23:28:42 2010 UTC (3 years, 4 months ago) by hertzog
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Update several sections to take into account the new source formats “3.0 (quilt)” and “3.0 (native)”

* Update several sections to take into account the new source formats “3.0
  (quilt)” and “3.0 (native)”. Closes: #561952
* Drop reference to “dbs” in the section about including binary files.

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Modified Sun Jan 3 23:28:41 2010 UTC (3 years, 4 months ago) by hertzog
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Mention docbook, POD and reST as convenient formats to write new manual pages

Thanks to Charles Plessy and the debian-mentors list for the idea and the
patch. Closes: #557298

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Modified Mon Sep 7 20:40:45 2009 UTC (3 years, 8 months ago) by lucas
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Fixed working of the repackaged tarballs section to avoid giving the impression that it's a standard packages must comply with. Closes: #489135.

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Modified Thu Jun 25 21:11:06 2009 UTC (3 years, 11 months ago) by lucas
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s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section about repackaged upstream tarballs.

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Modified Thu Jun 25 19:59:44 2009 UTC (3 years, 11 months ago) by lucas
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fix section on patch systems. Closes #525668.

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Modified Wed Jun 24 15:37:12 2009 UTC (3 years, 11 months ago) by lucas
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fix #516436 (apply patch from Justin B Rye)

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Modified Thu Jan 22 23:40:41 2009 UTC (4 years, 4 months ago) by lucas
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Updated documentation on translation updates. (#474879)

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Modified Thu Jan 22 23:18:55 2009 UTC (4 years, 4 months ago) by lucas
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Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz. (#492661)

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Modified Thu Jan 22 22:53:29 2009 UTC (4 years, 4 months ago) by lucas
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fix typo and example about debug packages (#487664)

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Modified Tue Aug 12 21:46:14 2008 UTC (4 years, 9 months ago) by lucas
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typo

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Modified Sun Jun 1 15:47:07 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he
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Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223

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Modified Sun Jun 1 15:05:22 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he
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In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
release codenames in <literal>

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Modified Sun Jun 1 14:28:18 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he
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Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.

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Modified Wed May 28 18:46:18 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by lucas
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linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.

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Modified Sat Mar 1 20:37:29 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by rhertzog
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Put in place the new developers-reference and the new refcard.

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Modified Mon Feb 25 20:38:19 2008 UTC (5 years, 3 months ago) by hertzog
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* Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
  #445642

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Modified Mon Feb 25 20:33:57 2008 UTC (5 years, 3 months ago) by hertzog
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* Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.

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Modified Sun Jul 1 11:50:47 2007 UTC (5 years, 10 months ago) by debacle
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Fixed remaining entities.

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Modified Sat Jun 30 13:21:18 2007 UTC (5 years, 10 months ago) by debacle
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Fixed all examples, fixed many (not all, yet) entities.

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Modified Wed Jun 27 12:57:32 2007 UTC (5 years, 11 months ago) by debacle
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Re-applied comments from SGML source to the DocBook files.

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Added Tue Jun 26 17:46:56 2007 UTC (5 years, 11 months ago) by debacle
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First files for developers-reference in DocBook XML
plus translation file using po4a.


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