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     <author>Josip Rodin <email/jrodin@jagor.srce.hr/
     </author>
+ <!--
+    <author>Translated by: [put your name here] <email/[put your e-mail here]/
+    </author>
+   -->
-    <version>version 0.96, 10. September 1999.</version>
+    <version>version 0.97, 27. September 1999.</version>
- <!--   Translated by: [put your name here] <email/[put your e-mail here]/-->
     <copyright>
     <copyrightsummary>Copyright &copy; 1998, 1999 Josip Rodin.</copyrightsummary>
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    some packages with <manref name="dpkg" section="8"> (ie. `dpkg -i package`,
    or through some of the front-ends like dselect or apt).
    This document has been written while the 2.1 'slink' distribution was the
-   officially stable release of Debian, thus the packages named here are
+   officially stable release of Debian, and the 2.2 'potato' was being
-   those from 2.1.
+   created, thus the packages named here are mostly those from 'potato'.
    <p>Following packages come with standard installation of Debian 2.1, so
    you probably have them (and additional packages they depend on) already.
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    package would be named johnledx or jle4x, or whatever you decide, as
    long as it's under some reasonable limit, like 15 characters.
-   <p>Also check for the exact version of the program (not the package!).
+   <p>Also check for the exact version of the program (to be included in the
-   If that piece of software is not numbered with versions like X.Y.Z, but
+   package version). If that piece of software is not numbered with versions
-   with release date, feel free to use date (if the date was 19th of
+   like X.Y.Z, but with some kind of date, feel free to use that date as the
-   December, 1998. use it US-like shortened, 19981219) as the version number.
+   version number, prepended with a "0.0." (just in case upstream people one
-   Some won't be numbered at all, in which case you should contact the
+   day decide to release a nice version like 1.0). So, if the release or
-   upstream maintainer to see if they've got some other revision-tracking
+   snapshot date was 19th of December, 1998, you can use the version string
-   method.
+   of 0.0.19981219. Some programs won't be numbered at all, in which case you
+   should contact the upstream maintainer to see if they've got some other
+   revision-tracking method.
    <sect id="dh_make">Running `dh_make'
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    # ----------------------------------------- Installation
    # You're going to have to be root to do this!
-   install:        gentoo-target
+   install:        gentoo
                    install ./gentoo $(BIN)
                    install icons $(ICONS)
                    install gentoorc-example $(HOME)/.gentoorc
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    <p>Whenever you make changes that are not specifically related to Debian
    package, be sure to send them to the upstream maintainer so they can be
-   included in the next program revision.
+   included in the next program revision. Note that you don't have to send
+   the debian/* files upstream, but you should do so with any other patches.
+   And try to be nice to upstream, by making your fixes not specific to
+   Debian or Linux (or even Unix!) prior to sending them.
    <sect id="nolibs">Differing libraries
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  Architecture: any
  Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
 Description: &lt;insert up to 60 chars description&gt;
-&lt;insert long description, indented with spaces&gt;
+ &lt;insert long description, indented with spaces&gt;
    </example>
    (I've added the line numbers.)
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  Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
 Suggests: file
 Description: A fully GUI configurable GTK+ file manager
-gentoo is a file manager for Linux written from scratch in pure C. It
+ gentoo is a file manager for Linux written from scratch in pure C. It
-uses the GTK+ toolkit for all of its interface needs. gentoo provides
+ uses the GTK+ toolkit for all of its interface needs. gentoo provides
-100% GUI configurability; no need to edit config files by hand and re-
+ 100% GUI configurability; no need to edit config files by hand and re-
-start the program. gentoo supports identifying the type of various
+ start the program. gentoo supports identifying the type of various
-files (using extension, regular expressions, or the 'file' command),
+ files (using extension, regular expressions, or the 'file' command),
-and can display files of different types with different colors and icons.
+ and can display files of different types with different colors and icons.
-.
+ .
-gentoo borrows some of its look and feel from the classic Amiga file
+ gentoo borrows some of its look and feel from the classic Amiga file
-manager "Directory OPUS" (written by Jonathan Potter).
+ manager "Directory OPUS" (written by Jonathan Potter).
    </example>
    (I've added the line numbers.)
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    <list>
    <item><manref name="dh_testdir" section="1"> check that you are in the
-   right directory (/usr/local/gentoo/gentoo-0.9.12/),
+   right directory (/usr/local/src/gentoo/gentoo-0.9.12/),
    <item><manref name="dh_testroot" section="1"> checks that you have root
    permissions,
    <item><manref name="dh_installdirs" section="1"> creates directories
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    <p>This will do everything for you, you'll just have to enter your
    PGP secret key, twice. After it's done, you will see four new files
-   in /usr/local/gentoo directory:
+   in /usr/local/src/gentoo directory:
    <p><list>
    <item><em>gentoo_0.9.12-1_i386.deb</em>

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