Log of /manuals/trunk/developers-reference/debian

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Revision 7029 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jan 3 23:28:40 2010 UTC (3 years, 4 months ago) by hertzog

Drop references to non-working upload queues, document ssh upload queue

Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #554077

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Revision 7027 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jan 3 23:28:38 2010 UTC (3 years, 4 months ago) by hertzog

The key protecting #debian-private is now stored on a file on master.debian.org

It's no more required to search into the debian-private archives. Thanks
to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> for the patch.  Closes: #548823

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Revision 7026 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jan 3 23:28:37 2010 UTC (3 years, 4 months ago) by hertzog

Include full URL to the README of the upload queue

Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #540974

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Revision 7025 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jan 3 23:28:36 2010 UTC (3 years, 4 months ago) by hertzog

Update guideline for override change to point to BTS instead of email

Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #540231

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Revision 7024 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jan 3 23:28:35 2010 UTC (3 years, 4 months ago) by hertzog

Use "3.0 (native)" source format with bzip2 compression

Created debian/source/{format,options} for this.

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Revision 7023 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jan 3 23:28:34 2010 UTC (3 years, 4 months ago) by hertzog

Add accent on my first name in debian/control.

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Revision 7022 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jan 3 23:28:33 2010 UTC (3 years, 4 months ago) by hertzog

Update description of the PTS "summary" keyword

Thanks to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #469154

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Revision 7004 - Directory Listing
Modified Tue Dec 22 13:52:19 2009 UTC (3 years, 4 months ago) by osamu

Marked bug number.

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Revision 6956 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Sep 17 19:35:37 2009 UTC (3 years, 8 months ago) by lucas

prepare changelog for next upload

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Revision 6954 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Sep 17 19:21:21 2009 UTC (3 years, 8 months ago) by lucas

also update list of authors

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Revision 6953 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Sep 17 18:56:57 2009 UTC (3 years, 8 months ago) by lucas

Update copyright notices.

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Revision 6933 - Directory Listing
Modified Sat Sep 12 15:23:36 2009 UTC (3 years, 8 months ago) by lucas

Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No changes needed.

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Revision 6931 - Directory Listing
Modified Sat Sep 12 15:18:35 2009 UTC (3 years, 8 months ago) by lucas

Change the maintainer address to debian-policy@, based on discussion on debian-devel@.

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Revision 6929 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Sep 7 21:00:40 2009 UTC (3 years, 8 months ago) by lucas

typo

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Revision 6928 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Sep 7 20:56:45 2009 UTC (3 years, 8 months ago) by lucas

Specify that bugs from removed packages must be closed in foo+rm. Closes #491839.

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Revision 6927 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Sep 7 20:40:45 2009 UTC (3 years, 8 months ago) by lucas

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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Revision 6877 - Directory Listing
Modified Sat Aug 22 10:30:03 2009 UTC (3 years, 8 months ago) by lucas

Added pointer to debian-project@ post about the wanna-build team.

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Revision 6816 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Jul 27 23:00:33 2009 UTC (3 years, 9 months ago) by lucas

Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No changes needed.

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Revision 6815 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Jul 27 22:49:01 2009 UTC (3 years, 9 months ago) by lucas

Bumped debhelper compat level to 5 (4 was deprecated)

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Revision 6810 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri Jul 24 14:20:23 2009 UTC (3 years, 9 months ago) by lucas

reduce length of title of l10n section. #534688

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Revision 6809 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri Jul 24 14:16:55 2009 UTC (3 years, 9 months ago) by lucas

add gandi.net discount. #538245

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Revision 6762 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jun 25 21:11:06 2009 UTC (3 years, 10 months ago) by lucas

s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section about repackaged upstream tarballs.

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Revision 6761 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jun 25 20:42:18 2009 UTC (3 years, 10 months ago) by lucas

Clarified NMU versioning to reflect existing practices. Closes: #532945

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Revision 6760 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jun 25 20:30:22 2009 UTC (3 years, 10 months ago) by lucas

added a note in the w-b sect about release team's w-b doc. Fixes 516375.

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Revision 6758 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jun 25 19:59:44 2009 UTC (3 years, 10 months ago) by lucas

fix section on patch systems. Closes #525668.

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Revision 6756 - Directory Listing
Modified Wed Jun 24 16:19:14 2009 UTC (3 years, 10 months ago) by lucas

fix 526410 (Applied patch from Charles Plessy about providing information to the ftpmasters)

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Revision 6755 - Directory Listing
Modified Wed Jun 24 16:03:48 2009 UTC (3 years, 10 months ago) by lucas

fix #523985 (apply patch from paul wise about hostile upstreams)

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Revision 6754 - Directory Listing
Modified Wed Jun 24 15:38:24 2009 UTC (3 years, 10 months ago) by lucas

fix #527008 (update list of codenames for releases)

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Revision 6753 - Directory Listing
Modified Wed Jun 24 15:37:12 2009 UTC (3 years, 10 months ago) by lucas

fix #516436 (apply patch from Justin B Rye)

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Revision 5804 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri Jan 23 09:37:02 2009 UTC (4 years, 3 months ago) by lucas

prepare changelog for next version

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Revision 5803 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri Jan 23 09:36:37 2009 UTC (4 years, 3 months ago) by lucas

3.4.1 uploaded to unstable

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Revision 5802 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri Jan 23 09:28:11 2009 UTC (4 years, 3 months ago) by lucas

remove leading spaces in doc-base abstracts

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Revision 5798 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jan 22 23:55:36 2009 UTC (4 years, 3 months ago) by lucas

Update instructions on handling of security issues. (#512620, #510783)

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Revision 5797 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jan 22 23:40:41 2009 UTC (4 years, 3 months ago) by lucas

Updated documentation on translation updates. (#474879)

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Revision 5796 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jan 22 23:30:43 2009 UTC (4 years, 3 months ago) by lucas

Document usertags (#367876)

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Revision 5794 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jan 22 23:30:40 2009 UTC (4 years, 3 months ago) by lucas

improved README.contrib (#500371)

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Revision 5793 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jan 22 23:18:55 2009 UTC (4 years, 3 months ago) by lucas

Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz. (#492661)

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Revision 5792 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jan 22 23:10:37 2009 UTC (4 years, 3 months ago) by lucas

update instructions on the delayed queue (#512529)

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Revision 5791 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jan 22 22:53:29 2009 UTC (4 years, 3 months ago) by lucas

fix typo and example about debug packages (#487664)

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Revision 5790 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jan 22 22:48:23 2009 UTC (4 years, 3 months ago) by lucas

mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated

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Revision 5354 - Directory Listing
Modified Tue Aug 26 08:57:39 2008 UTC (4 years, 8 months ago) by lucas

added a changelog entry for the NMU changes

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Revision 5248 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jun 26 14:49:33 2008 UTC (4 years, 10 months ago) by hertzog

Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
website.

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Revision 5238 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri Jun 13 13:46:40 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by lucas

added 'not released yet' entry in changelog

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Revision 5235 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri Jun 13 12:44:01 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by lucas

developers-reference 3.4.0 uploaded to unstable

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Revision 5233 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri Jun 13 09:29:29 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

* debian/control:
   + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
   + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!

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Revision 5232 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri Jun 13 07:41:51 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
Thomas. Closes: #485837

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Revision 5231 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri Jun 13 07:36:29 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969

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Revision 5230 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Jun 12 22:49:38 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Update description of the madison tool (by replacing it with a
description of the dak ls tool). Update the example while we're
at it.

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Revision 5229 - Directory Listing
Modified Tue Jun 10 22:27:52 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
#467102

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Revision 5223 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jun 8 11:20:06 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Clarify instructions for bug reassignment, emphasizing the
need to inform the maintainers you reassign the bug to. Also
hint to using cloned bugs to avoid re-reporting. Heavily based
on patch by Marc Haber - thanks for the work! Closes: #484806

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Revision 5221 - Directory Listing
Modified Sat Jun 7 12:11:03 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by lucas

build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies. #376582.

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Revision 5220 - Directory Listing
Modified Sat Jun 7 11:03:04 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216

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Revision 5219 - Directory Listing
Modified Sat Jun 7 10:47:12 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable 
distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
team before upload. Closes: #459343

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Revision 5204 - Directory Listing
Modified Tue Jun 3 09:30:24 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Found another duplicat of the post-sarge bug

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Revision 5203 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Jun 2 09:47:33 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Fix wording error in changelog, add bug number closed by release
bit updates

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Revision 5201 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Jun 2 09:34:15 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Update and rewrite the porting guidelines in chapter 5, bringing
the dev-ref up to the state of porting in the year 2008. Also
fixes several wording issues, such as possible misunderstandments
about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226

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Revision 5200 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jun 1 20:25:44 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Update several bits about release management/testing transitions.

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Revision 5199 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jun 1 15:47:07 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223

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Revision 5198 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jun 1 15:05:22 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
release codenames in <literal>

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Revision 5197 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jun 1 14:29:15 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
doesn't exist anymore.

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Revision 5196 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jun 1 14:28:18 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by he

Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.

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Revision 5194 - Directory Listing
Modified Fri May 30 07:01:34 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by lucas

README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred. (#278267)

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Revision 5186 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu May 29 10:37:52 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by lucas

Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package. (#483225)

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Revision 5185 - Directory Listing
Modified Wed May 28 20:03:39 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by lucas

fixed Vcs-*, added bug number (#483428)

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Revision 5184 - Directory Listing
Modified Wed May 28 19:54:39 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by lucas

debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.

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Revision 5183 - Directory Listing
Modified Wed May 28 19:11:49 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by lucas

collab maintenance: global part => first paragraph. Closes: #483231.

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Revision 5182 - Directory Listing
Modified Wed May 28 19:02:29 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by lucas

Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.

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Revision 5181 - Directory Listing
Modified Wed May 28 18:46:18 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by lucas

linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.

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Revision 5179 - Directory Listing
Modified Wed May 28 14:50:04 2008 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by lucas

Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. (#470754)

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Revision 4953 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Mar 2 10:30:59 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by hertzog

Start new changelog entry & update Vcs-* fields with new URLs.

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Revision 4952 - Directory Listing
Modified Sat Mar 1 20:37:29 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by rhertzog

Put in place the new developers-reference and the new refcard.

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Revision 4948 - Directory Listing
Modified Thu Feb 28 13:28:38 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by debacle
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

Add build-dependency on w3m.
Do not attempt to build Japanese PDF now.
Change changelog for upload.

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Revision 4946 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Feb 25 20:51:40 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by hertzog
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

* Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields pointing to the new SVN
  repository.

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Revision 4945 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Feb 25 20:38:19 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by hertzog
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

* Document the Homepage field. Thanks, Christian Perrier. Closes:
  #445642

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Revision 4944 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Feb 25 20:33:57 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by hertzog
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

* Remove XS- prefix for Vcs-* fields since dpkg now supports them.

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Revision 4942 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Feb 25 20:29:17 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by hertzog
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

* Mention Alioth as the main resource for VCS repositories and deprecate
  cvs.debian.org.

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Revision 4941 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Feb 25 20:21:33 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by hertzog
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

* Update information concerning the Package Tracking System.

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Revision 4939 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Feb 25 18:43:12 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by hertzog
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

* Update information concerning Alioth.

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Revision 4938 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Feb 25 18:36:45 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by hertzog
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

* Remove all stuff concerning non-US.

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Revision 4937 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Feb 25 18:32:59 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by hertzog
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

* Recommend the use of DSA's request tracker instead of mailing them.
* Remove reference to #debian-sf, #debian-bsd which don't exist anymore. Put
  a reference to #debian-dpkg instead.

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Revision 4936 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Feb 25 18:17:08 2008 UTC (5 years, 2 months ago) by hertzog
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

* Add a link to enrico's excellent Debian Community Guidelines.

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Revision 4934 - Directory Listing
Modified Mon Feb 11 11:33:56 2008 UTC (5 years, 3 months ago) by debacle
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

Use dblatex instead of fop, as long fop is in contrib.

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Revision 4912 - Directory Listing
Modified Sun Jul 1 23:43:58 2007 UTC (5 years, 10 months ago) by debacle
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

Now everything builds. Translators needed!

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Revision 4904 - Directory Listing
Modified Wed Jun 27 10:15:09 2007 UTC (5 years, 10 months ago) by debacle
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

More realistic dependencies, close bugs.

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Revision 4902 - Directory Listing
Added Tue Jun 26 17:46:56 2007 UTC (5 years, 10 months ago) by debacle
Original Path: developers-reference/trunk/debian

First files for developers-reference in DocBook XML
plus translation file using po4a.