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13. By David Prévot <email address hidden> on 2012-08-19

* Team upload.

[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Clarify that removals from testing are possible. Closes: #678710
  Thanks to Per Andersson <email address hidden> for the patch.
* Reword various parts to be gender-neutral. Closes: #678712
  Thanks to Per Andersson and Steve Langasek for the patch.
* Recommend usage of gender-neutral formulations in README-contrib.
* Fix Vcs-Browser URL. Thanks to Charles Plessy who spotted it.
* Document the existence of "hints" that release managers can
  use to tweak the conditions of testing migration. Closes: #679562
  Thanks to Paul Gevers <email address hidden> for the patch.

[ Translation updates ]
* Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
* French by David Prévot.
* German by Chris Leick.

[ David Prévot ]
* Fix typo: Freenodes -> Freenode. Closes: #679735

12. By Raphaël Hertzog on 2012-06-25

[ David Prévot ]
* Move away po4a handling in its own directory with a single config file.
* Adapt Makefile and README-contrib to the current po4a tree.
* Upgrades to stable should be discussed using reportbug. Thanks to Don
  Armstrong <email address hidden> for the patch.
  Acked-by: Julien Cristau <email address hidden> . Closes: #670362
* Use UTF-8 locale to prepare the text version. Closes: #658839
* Delayed queue goes from 0 to 15-day. Closes: #631353

[ Osamu Aoki ]
* Make XeTeX backend to use xCJK package only for CJK and add tipa for
  build dependency. (See #666569). Closes: #666578

* Translation updates (complete)
  - French by David Prévot.
  - German by Chris Leick.

[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Update Standards-Version to 3.9.3 (no change required).
* Switch to xz compression for source.
* Clean up debian/rules by using dh (with compat level 8).
* Drop build-dependency on latex-cjk-xcjk since xeCJK.sty is provided
  by texlive-xetex directly.

11. By David Prévot <email address hidden> on 2012-01-17

* Team upload.

[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Document some best practices for meta-packages. Extend those for
  transitional packages. Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna
  <email address hidden> (thanks!). Closes: #569219
* Update license pointer to correctly point to GPL-2. Closes: #643929
  Thanks to Luca Falavigna.
* Update URL of Debian Mentors FAQ. Closes: #643930
  Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
* Refresh some release-specific information. Closes: #643931
  Based on a patch by Luca Falavigna.
* Refresh some ftpmaster-related information. Closes: #643932
  Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
* Update minimal GPG key length to match current requirements.
  Closes: #643933 Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
* Update login information for rt.debian.org. Closes: #643934
  Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
* Drop section about yada. Its usage is highly discouraged. Closes: #643935
  Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the patch.
* Update best practice about unfuzzying PO file translations to recommend
  msguntypot. Thanks to David Prévot for the patch.
  Acked-by Christian Perrier. Closes: #655153

[ David Prévot ]
* Add doc-base file for the German translation.
* Typo fix, thanks to Andreas Moog. Closes: #655096
* Use XeTeX backend, that fix quotes in examples. Closes: #629530
* Build the Japanese PDF, thanks to Osamu Aoki and the maint-guide build
  process.

* Translation updates (all completed)
  - Japanese by Hideki Yamane.
  - German by Chris Leick.
  - French by David Prévot.

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!