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10. By Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden> on 2011-07-31

[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Update the NMU rules to take into account the 0-day NMU rule
  instituted by the release managers. Closes: #625449

[ Lucas Nussbaum ]
* Update my email address.
* Encourage the use of RT to contact the security team.
  Patch from Thijs Kinkhorst. Closes: #610782
* Document the process of returning after retirement.
  Patch from Serafeim Zanikolas. Closes: #540249
* Add instructions how to mark a non-free package as auto-buildable.
  Patch from Moritz Muehlenhoff, ACKed by Andreas Barth.
  Closes: #602838

9. By David Prévot <email address hidden> on 2011-06-19

* Team upload.

[ Gerfried Fuchs ]
* Remove part about -v for package uploads from experimental to unstable,
  version tracking removed that requirement.

[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Rework section on "sponsoring packages" and include a basic
  checklist for the sponsor. Closes: #453313
* Update the "Debian Developer's Duties" chapter to be more explicit
  about duties of package maintainers. Closes: #548867
* Update references to merkel (which is decommissionned) where
  needed. Closes: #619990
  Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.
* Many typos fixed by Chris Leick <email address hidden>. Closes: #623512

[ Chris Leick ]
* Initial German translation.

[ David Prévot ]
* Activate German package. Closes: #623489
* Update French translation.
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. No changes needed.
* Add build-arch and build-indep targets.
* Explicitly refer to GPL-2 file in debian/copyright.

[ Hideki Yamane ]
* Update Japanese translation.

8. By Raphaël Hertzog on 2010-11-22

[ Lucas Nussbaum ]
* Document the new derivatives-bugs PTS keyword.
* Removed hp.debian.or.jp reference. Closes: 561597

[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Update description of the PTS "summary" keyword. Thanks to
  Simon McVittie <email address hidden> for the patch. Closes: #469154
* Add accent on my first name in debian/control.
* Use "3.0 (native)" source format with bzip2 compression.
  Created debian/source/{format,options} for this.
* Update guideline for override change to point to BTS
  instead of email. Thanks to Simon McVittie <email address hidden> for the
  patch. Closes: #540231
* Include full URL to the README of the upload queue. Thanks to Simon
  McVittie <email address hidden> for the patch. Closes: #540974
* 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 <email address hidden>
  for the patch. Closes: #548823
* Update information about upload queues. Thanks to Simon McVittie
  <email address hidden> for the patches:
  - point to official names {ftp,ssh}.upload.debian.org. Closes: #554054
  - drop references to non-working queues. Closes: #554077
* 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
* 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.
* Fix typo “transfered“ → “transferred”. Closes: #555685
* Fix typo “programms“ → “programs”. Closes: #560808
* Drop section about debmake, it has been removed of Debian since lenny.
* Update URL of the security tracker. Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso.
  Closes: #556229
* Update URL of Packages-arch-specific. Closes: #553974
* Update section about Alioth to mention FusionForge instead of GForge.
  Drop mention of separate cvs.debian.org it's managed by Alioth too.
  Closes: #564068
* Document new "buildd" keyword from the PTS.
* Update URL explaining the "Debian Maintainer" status, it's now at
  http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer. Closes: #564414
* Update number of source packages. Thanks Karl Goetz. Closes: #567235
* Update and simplify list of architectures. Thanks Karl Goetz.
  Closes: #567234
* Small typo fixes and clarifications/rewordings suggested by Karl Goetz.
  Closes: #567233
* Document the notion of "team upload": it looks like an NMU but it's not
  really one because the uploader is an implicit co-maintainer since he's
  part of the maintenance team. Thanks to Charles Plessy for the initial
  patch. Closes: #573110
* Update standards-version to 3.9.1 and add missing ${misc:Depends} in
  dependencies.
* Fix debian/tocsubstvars to cope with the new way dpkg-dev handles
  multi-lines substitution variables.

[ David Prévot ]
* Update outdated mentions, typos and tags. Closes: #578664
* French translation updated from the 2006 debiandoc version.
* Apply updated patch from Nicolas François. Closes: #257150
* dinstall run happens four times a day. Closes: #585161
* Activate Japanese package.
* Handle addendum if it exists.

7. By Lucas Nussbaum on 2009-09-17

* Fixed working of the repackaged tarballs section to avoid giving the
  impression that it's a standard packages must comply with. Closes:
  #489135.
* Specify that bugs from removed packages must be closed in foo+rm.
  Closes: #491839.
* Change the maintainer address to debian-policy@, based on discussion
  on debian-devel@.
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No changes needed.
* Update copyright notices and list of authors.

6. By Lucas Nussbaum on 2009-08-22

* Applied patch from Justin B Rye that improves the discussion on writing
  package descriptions. Closes: #516436.
* Lenny has been released, update the list of codenames. Closes: #527008.
* Applied patch from Paul Wise that adds a paragraph about hostile
  upstreams. Closes: #523985.
* Applied patch from Charles Plessy about providing information to the
  ftpmasters. Closes: #526410.
* In the section about patch systems, mention quilt (wasn not
  mentionned before) and describe it as the recommended patch system.
  also mention dpatch and cdbs' patch system. drop dbs. Closes: #525668.
* Added a note in the wanna-build section to mention
  http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt. Closes: #516375.
* Clarified NMU versioning to reflect existing practices. Closes: #532945.
* s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section
  about repackaged upstream tarballs.
* Mention the Gandi.net hosting discount in section 4.13.
  Applied patch from Tim Retout. Closes: #538245.
* Reduce length of title of L10N section so that it is no longer split.
  Applied patch from Justin B Rye. Closes: #534688.
* Bumped debhelper compat level to 5 (4 was deprecated)
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No changes needed.
* Added pointer to debian-project@ post about the wanna-build team.

5. By Lucas Nussbaum on 2009-01-23

[ Raphael Hertzog ]
* Create a publish target in the Makefile to reenable builds on the
  website.

[ Lucas Nussbaum ]
* Commited DEP1: rework the whole NMU section.
  The most important changes are:
  + NMUs are now explicitely allowed for all bugs, not just "serious bugs".
  + It is recommended to use the DELAYED queue, and some example delays are
    provided.
  Other fixes:
  + Describe the process of acknowleding NMUs in a way that works
    with the BTS's version-tracking. Closes: #480723.
  + No longer mention that only DDs can do NMU. Don't make any
    distinction. Closes: #464230.
  + Switch to +nmu for NMU versioning. Closes: #437392.
  + Mention nmudiff. Closes: #483227.
* Mention docbook-xml, and that debiandoc-sgml is deprecated. Thanks to
  W. Martin Borgert for the patch. Closes: #485689.
* Fixed typo and example in the blurb about debug packages.
  Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan for the patch.
  Closes: #487664.
* Update instructions on the delayed queue.
  Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
  Closes: #512529.
* Clarify wording about repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
  Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch.
  Closes: #492661.
* Improved README.contrib. Mention command to checkout the SVN
  version. Thanks to Christine Spang for the patch.
  Closes: #500371.
* Document usertags. Thanks to Chris Lamb for the patch.
  Closes: #367876.
* Updated documentation on translation updates.
  Thanks to Christian Perrier for the patch.
  Closes: #474879.
* Update instructions on handling of security issues.
  Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for the patch.
  Closes: #512620, #510783.

4. By Lucas Nussbaum on 2008-06-13

[ Lucas Nussbaum ]
* Update Vcs-* fields after DDP's SVN restructuring. Closes: #483428.
* Fix conditions for updates from unstable to testing. Closes: #470754.
* linda has been removed. Remove section A.2.2. Closes: #483242.
* Co-maintainers are listed in the Uploaders field. Closes: #483230.
* Collaborative Maintenance: the 'global part' of debian/control
  is the first paragraph, about the source package. Closes: #483231.
* debian-private archives are on master. Closes: #475531.
* Mention Debian Maintainers and the debian-maintainers package.
  Closes: #483225.
* README.contrib: document that short lines are preferred.
  Closes: #278267.
* build-rdeps allows to list reverse build-dependencies.
  Closes: #376582.

[ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ]
* Replace abused <emphasis> tags with <literal> tags.
* In the same spirit, wrap all uses of stable/testing/unstable and
  release codenames in <literal>
* Remove reference to upload queue on auric in section 5.6.5, auric
  doesn't exist anymore.
* Fix several typesetting errors and typos noticed by Sandro Tosi,
  thanks for the notes! Closes: #483223
* Update several bits about release management/testing transitions
  and release-critical bugs. Closes: #483237, #456494
* 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 misunderstandings
  about the need to rebuild uploads. Closes: #483226
* Update the instructions for uploads to the (old)stable
  distributions. Emphasize the importance of contacting the SRM
  team before upload. Closes: #459343
* Update instructions for package removal requests. Closes: #454216
* 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
* Clarify instructions for replacing/renaming binary packages,
  pointing out that using Provides is sometimes advisable. Closes:
  #467102
* 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.
* Update explanation of best practice for closing bugs, seems to
  have been forgotten when everything was upgraded to use
  debbugs version-tracking. Closes: #485969
* Clarify ITP instructions and emphasize our wish that people send
  ITPs, explaining a few of the reasons. Thanks for the note,
  Thomas. Closes: #485837
* debian/control:
   + Update Uploaders to include Lucas, Raphael and me.
   + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes needed!

3. By Andreas Barth <email address hidden> on 2006-11-11

* mia-history is replaced by mia-query. Thanks, Christoph Berg.
  Closes: #350792
* fix missing quite. Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #365994
* use gnugp instead of gpg. Thanks, Justin Pryzby, Jon Dowland.
  Closes: #376411
* better destinction between maintainer and developer. Thanks for
  the suggestion to Colin Tuckley. Closes: #380458
* irc.d.o points to oftc. Thanks, Christoph Biedl, Jon Dowland.
  Closes: #382721
* Bugs are now always closed thanks to version tracking.
  Closes: #339552, #353447, #376199
* Clarify what "a conflicts b" means in testing migration.
  Closes: #361311
* Packages in testing disappear if they're removed from unstable.
  Thanks, Frank Küster, Al Stone. Closes: #365993
* Document only the most recent changelog entry is used. Thanks
  to Kevin Glynn to the suggestion. Closes: #374738
* Add more tools for reverse depends. Close: #376582
* delayed-queue on gluck is uploaded more often now. Closes: #397907
* stop using capitals, minor fixes, language fixes.
  Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Colin Tuckley, Russ Allbery.
  Closes: #368046, #378929, #361744
* add CVE Ids to your changelog. Closes: #376961
* add reasoning why debconf questions shouldn't be longer than
  20 lines. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst, Christian Perrier, Russ Allbery.
  Closes: #382477
* section changing needs re-uploading orig.tar.gz.
  Thanks, Adam D. Barratt. Closes: #387154
* binary files in diffs could be en/decoded with perl.
  Thanks, Frank Küster. Closes: #397786
* Add pointer to new-reject-FAQ. Closes: #324967
* Hint to dd-list/whodepends. Closes: #353874
* Don't use too generic mail ids. Closes: #355725
* pts/summary is actually used. Thanks, Holger Levsen. Closes: #387108
* clarify that one should append the NMU-diff to a bug. Closes: #394033
* more detailed instructions on binary package removals.
  Closes: #356643

* Frédéric Bothamy
  - French translation updated to version 3.3.8

2. By Andreas Barth <email address hidden> on 2005-01-23

* Andreas Barth
  - closes: and NMUs/experimental uploads. Closes: #284714
  - madison is on merkel.
  - more gender-neutral. Closes: #290583, #290584, #263114
  - explain current incoming. Closes: #290019
  - remove broken sponsoring URL. Closes: #291698
  - add handling hints about orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Frank. Closes: #278524
  - duplicate bug reports should be merged. Closes: #285381
  - if you're on vacation, please check whether someone needs keysigning.
    Closes: #285458
  - freenode has developer cloacks. Closes: #285687
  - cleaned up uploaders / maintainer field
  - explain how dak detects NMUs. Closes: #292354
  - add "mass" to lots of bugs. Closes: #292946
  - sync NM rules with reality.
* Frédéric Bothamy
  - French translation updated to version 3.3.6

1. By Adam Di Carlo <email address hidden> on 2002-04-07

* Antoine Hulin:
  - some grammar corrections
  - update French translation
* Martin Michlmayr:
  - changes in upload situation, not possible to remove from Incoming
    anymore; closes: #135559
  - also talk about dput a tiny bit
* Adam Di Carlo:
  - Ch "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools":
    - improve the intro
    - Charles Briscoe-Smith deprecates yada (I think new maintainers of
      that would be welcome)
    - debconf-doc mentioned for debconf
    - debhelper: don't talk about debmake; mention how to get info on the dh-* pkgs
    - dput: new section, closes: #129378
    - debootstrap: new section, closes: #129377
    - dpkg-dev-el: new section
    - other minor wording changes
  - Sec "Mailing Lists": where to find private archives, closes: #96780
  - Ch "Package uploads":
    - new Sec "Adding an entry to debian/changelog"
    - rename Sec "Announcing new packages" to "New packages"
  - crypto is in main, non-US is for patent restrictions, so:
    - excise some text from "Registering as a Debian developer"
    - changes in Sec "Uploading to ftp-master"
    - changes in Sec "Uploading to non-US"
* old bugs closed out, closes: #110573