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18. By Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden> on 2014-08-29

[ Paul Wise ]
* Update links from http to https where possible

[ Lucas Nussbaum ]
* Drop section on goodies, point to wiki instead.
  Closes: #751489, #586186
* dpkg-buildpackage now uses fakeroot automatically. Closes: #750988
* Drop section on debsums as this functionality is now integrated in
  dpkg. Closes: #750990
* Mention other types of checksums besides MD5. Closes: #750994
* Mention rationale for including the description in ITPs. Closes:
  #494332
* Mention getting removed from e-mail aliases in retiring procedure.
  Closes: #736232
* Fix typos in german translation. Patch from Thomas Schumm (Thanks!).
  Closes: #686253
* Update DSA contact points. Closes: #713043
* Mention collab-maint in the VCS section. Closes: #496815

17. By Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden> on 2014-07-30

[ Andreas Rönnquist ]
* Fix typo in NMU section s/blocking/block/. Closes: #755515

[ Lucas Nussbaum ]
* Fix typo in Vcs-Git:. Closes: #756491
* resources: Mention that some of the goodies also apply to DMs.
  Thanks Philipp Kaluza for the patch. Closes: #581603
* Clarify type of changes accepted in NMUs. Thanks to Chris Knadle for the
  patch! Closes: #672198
* Add Steam subscriptions to the list of goodies. Thanks to Paul Wise
  for the patch. Closes: #736381
* Replace 'Debian GNU/Linux' with 'Debian' (except at one place). Thanks
  to 'victory' for the patch. Closes: #708665
* Add pointer to debian-experimental-changes@l.d.o, where uploads to
  experimental are sent. Thanks to Guo Yixuan for the patch! Closes: #671705
* Recommend git-bp instead of cvs-bp, and cowbuilder instead of pbuilder-uml.
  Thanks to Osamu Aoki and Andreas Rönnquist for the patch! Closes: #741269
* Update for jessie. Thanks Fabien Givors for the patch! Closes: #719888

16. By Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden> on 2014-07-08

[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Update preferred contact method for the security team. Closes: #738607
  Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso for the patch.

[ Charles Plessy ]
* Removed mention of Gandi's discontinued discount.

[ Lucas Nussbaum ]
* Move maintenance to Git & collab-maint. Update Vcs-*.
* Update Standards-Version to 3.9.5 (no change required).

15. By David Prévot <email address hidden> on 2013-08-07

* Team upload.

[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Update versioning advice for security uploads as well. Closes: #709218
  Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso for the patch.

14. By David Prévot <email address hidden> on 2013-05-16

* Team upload.

[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Add recommendations to re-introduce packages. Thanks to Paul Wise for the
  patch. Closes: #685039
* Drop paragraph about vanilla debian/rules files which mainly points to a
  no-longer working link.

[ Hideki Yamane ]
* Introduce epub support. Closes: #652044

[ Thijs Kinkhorst ]
* Update versioning advice for uploads to stable/testing. Closes: #685646
* Advise to use codename-security instead of stable-security.
  Closes: #708290

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

[ David Prévot ]
* debian/control:
  - Update Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no change required).
  - Use canonical URL for Vcs-Svn.

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.