developers-reference (13.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium * Start 13.8 development. d/changelog entries will be written on release using the git commit messages. -- Holger Levsen Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:50:34 +0200 developers-reference (13.7) unstable; urgency=medium [ Holger Wansing ] * Switch to the 'official' Debian-style html theme. (see MR!49) * Add language switcher in sidebar. * Add additional build-depends needed for our new theme. -- Holger Levsen Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:48:20 +0200 developers-reference (13.6) unstable; urgency=medium [ James Addison ] * source/_static/switchers.js: repair the language-selection functionality by migrating from jQuery to built-in browser DOM functions. (Closes: debian/developers-reference#48) -- Holger Levsen Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:10:06 +0200 developers-reference (13.5) unstable; urgency=medium [ Bastian Germann ] * best-pkging-practices: do not hint to use several Vcs fields for one pkg. [ Holger Levsen ] * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * Bump standards version to 4.7.0, no changes needed. -- Holger Levsen Sun, 07 Apr 2024 13:19:29 +0200 developers-reference (13.4) unstable; urgency=medium [ Kentaro Hayashi ] * (ja) beyond-pkging.po: update 7.5.1 translation. * (ja) beyond-pkging.po: update 7.5.2 translation. [ Dr. Tobias Quathamer ] * (de) pkgs.po: Update translation -- Holger Levsen Sat, 23 Dec 2023 14:43:52 +0100 developers-reference (13.3) unstable; urgency=medium * l10n: overhaul of i18n / l10n chapter. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #1042779 * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Sat, 05 Aug 2023 16:15:53 +0200 developers-reference (13.2) unstable; urgency=medium [ Jochen Sprickerhof ] * pkgs: add Policy pointer for stable version numbers. [ Holger Levsen ] * best-pkg-practices: use "libxml2" instead of "lyx" as example of using .install files. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. [ Kentaro Hayashi ] * Japanese translation: resolve all fuzzy strings. -- Holger Levsen Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:45:17 +0200 developers-reference (13.1) unstable; urgency=medium * Start 13.x series, hello trixie! * pkgs + resources: update references to older releases. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * Unfuzzy strings in German translation. -- Holger Levsen Sat, 17 Jun 2023 22:08:46 +0200 developers-reference (12.19) unstable; urgency=medium [ Holger Levsen ] * pkgs: explicitly state that $suite should be used in d/changelog for uploads to stable-updates. [ Carsten Schoenert ] * Updating German translation of non translated strings, proof reading and small fixups of typos etc, bringing the German translation back to 100% complete. -- Holger Levsen Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:07:29 +0200 developers-reference (12.18) unstable; urgency=medium [ Guillem Jover ] * developer-duties, new-maintainer, tools, resources: update OpenPGP information. * resources: fix grammar in Alioth entry. [ Holger Levsen ] * README.contributing: encourage merge requests. Drop reference to very old bug from docbook times. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Mon, 06 Mar 2023 19:06:57 +0100 developers-reference (12.17) unstable; urgency=medium [ Guillem Jover ] * tools: update documentation for dupload and dput. [ Holger Levsen ] * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Sun, 05 Mar 2023 21:12:10 +0100 developers-reference (12.16) unstable; urgency=medium [ Jelmer Vernooij ] * Recommend using Git in the Vcs-* section, and link to DEP-14. [ Holger Levsen ] * Makefile: improve status target to show translation stats, thanks to Paul Gevers showing me how it's done for the release notes. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:58:42 +0100 developers-reference (12.15) unstable; urgency=medium * Upload to unstable. -- Holger Levsen Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:11:33 +0100 developers-reference (12.14) experimental; urgency=medium * Build single page HTML manuals again. Closes: #658825. * Drop empty genindex.html pages and replaces links to it with ones to index.html. * pkgs: fix unexpected indentation warning. * *.rst: improve syntax highlighting for code and similar blocks. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * Drop existing d/*.lintian-overrides and reword placeholder 'Closes: #' entries in previous d/changelog entries. * d/changelog: clarify 12.13 entry. -- Holger Levsen Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:43:54 +0100 developers-reference (12.13) experimental; urgency=medium * d/tests: - add autopkgtest to validate XML and HTML files, thanks to Aurélien COUDERC who added some to src:desktop-base, which were then taken by Wolfgang Schweer to src:debian-edu, which I then took and modified to exclude a template and the (sphinx generated) search.html file. - add small README explaining how to run autopkgtests locally. -- Holger Levsen Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:03:00 +0100 developers-reference (12.12) unstable; urgency=medium * pkgs and ressources: explain the new non-free-firmware section (written under the assumption that bookworm is stable; currently stable does not have a non-free-firmware section). * tools: add a pointer to https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch where watch files are mentioned. Thanks to #660193 * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * d/*.lintian-overrides: override a false positive about 'Closes: #' regex entries in d/changelog. * Fix spelling of "resources" in older d/changelog entries. -- Holger Levsen Mon, 06 Feb 2023 20:14:34 +0100 developers-reference (12.11) unstable; urgency=medium [ Grzegorz Szymaszek ] * Update .po files after GTK rename in 12.10. * resources: fix "The testing distribution" link label. * Update .po files after the "The testing distribution" link label fix. -- Holger Levsen Wed, 11 Jan 2023 09:51:31 +0100 developers-reference (12.10) unstable; urgency=medium [ Grzegorz Szymaszek ] * best-pkging-practices: rename GTK+ to GTK as per https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2019-February/msg00000.html [ Holger Levsen ] * c/control: bump standards version to 4.6.2, no changes needed. * d/copyright and index.rst: bump my copyright years. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:43:06 +0100 developers-reference (12.9) unstable; urgency=medium * pkgs: fixup dcut syntax from last upload, thanks josch. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:07:18 +0100 developers-reference (12.8) unstable; urgency=medium [ Simon McVittie ] * pkgs: recommend source-only uploads when possible, and describe when they are not. Closes: #1015784 [ Akbarkhon Variskhanov ] * resources: fix minor typo. [ Holger Levsen ] * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Mon, 14 Nov 2022 13:46:52 +0100 developers-reference (12.7) unstable; urgency=medium [ Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues ] * pkgs.rst: document how to use dcut to cancel a DELAYED upload. [ Akbarkhon Variskhanov ] * pkgs.rst: improve `Closes: #` regex pattern. [ Holger Levsen ] * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Tue, 25 Oct 2022 14:55:20 +0200 developers-reference (12.6) unstable; urgency=medium * developer-duties: replace alioth with salsa. Closes: #1016752 * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Sat, 06 Aug 2022 17:32:03 +0200 developers-reference (12.5) unstable; urgency=medium [ Antoine Beaupré ] * best-pkging-practices: - debian-policy 4.1.4 deprecated get-orig-source, mention that and alternatives. - move urgency delays into the urgency section, keep backref, expand. [ Holger Levsen ] * README.contributing: explain how to update translations after updates of English sources. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * d/control: bump standards version to 4.6.1. -- Holger Levsen Fri, 03 Jun 2022 18:06:52 +0200 developers-reference (12.4) unstable; urgency=medium [ Enrico Zini ] * pkgs: remove requirement that security uploads have urgency=high. Closes: #1010559 [ Holger Levsen ] * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Wed, 04 May 2022 13:55:02 +0200 developers-reference (12.3) unstable; urgency=medium [ Stephan Lachnit ] * beyond-pkging: add section for granting upload permissions to DMs. [ Christoph Berg ] * resources.rst: add pointer to https://github.com/Debian [ Geoffroy Youri Berret ] * Use distro-info instead of hardcoding version numbers. Closes: #930565 [ Philippe SWARTVAGHER ] * fr/tools.po: fix formatting issues. Closes: #1005357 [ Holger Levsen ] * beyond-pkging: improve section for granting upload permissions to DMs. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Sat, 02 Apr 2022 15:01:11 +0200 developers-reference (12.2) unstable; urgency=medium [ xiao sheng wen ] * pkgs.rst: add one space between an URL and word. [ Holger Levsen ] * pkgs.rst and best-pkging-practices.rst: drop last two remaining examples mentioning dpatch and cdbs. * index.rst and d/copyright: update my copyright years. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:30:40 +0100 developers-reference (12.1) unstable; urgency=medium [ Kentaro Hayashi ] * best-pkging-practices and pkgs: Fix broken nested inline markup. [ Holger Levsen ] * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * d/control: add tex-gyre to Build-Depends-Indep to address ftbfs in sid. -- Holger Levsen Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:11:49 +0200 developers-reference (12.0) unstable; urgency=medium [ Thomas Goirand ] * pkgs: document contributing to backports with the help from backports FTP masters. Closes: #793633 [ Marco Villegas ] * best-pkging-practices: add a security related section. Closes: #337086 * Fix some typos. [ Geoffroy Youri Berret ] * Fix typos in README.contributing. [ Daniel Shahaf ] * Fix typo in d/control. [ Philip Hands ] * Fix typo. [ Holger Levsen ] * Embrace bookworm. Simplify versioning. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * Update standards version to 4.6.0, no changes needed. -- Holger Levsen Thu, 02 Sep 2021 01:44:56 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.21) unstable; urgency=medium * best-pkging-practices: replace 'atter' with 'other', with thanks to Jeremy Bicha. Closes: #991291 * pkgs: update releases used in examples for the time when bullseye is stable. * resources: update 'dak ls evince' example output. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:20:35 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.20) unstable; urgency=medium [ Judit Foglszinger ] * resources: Remove freenode and move reference to cloaks to Debian wiki. Closes: #990054. [ Holger Levsen ] * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * Fix typo in previous d/changelog entry. -- Holger Levsen Fri, 18 Jun 2021 23:50:52 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.19) unstable; urgency=medium [ Tobias Wiese ] * Add lost spaces to parts that include literals. Closes: #987930. Thanks to Simon Josefsson for the bug report. [ Jean-Pierre Giraud ] * (fr) update locales/fr/LC_MESSAGES. [ Holger Levsen ] * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Wed, 05 May 2021 19:56:16 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.18) unstable; urgency=medium * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Sun, 17 Jan 2021 23:29:13 +0100 developers-reference (11.0.17) unstable; urgency=medium [ Nicolas Boulenguez ] * README.contributing: update-po requires sphinx-intl. * best-pkging-practices: Long descriptions may reuse paragraphs. [ Holger Levsen ] * Update standards version to 4.5.1, no changes needed. * debian/copyright and index.rst: update my copyright years. -- Holger Levsen Sun, 17 Jan 2021 22:45:57 +0100 developers-reference (11.0.16) unstable; urgency=medium * resources: add link to https://db.debian.org/forward.html. Closes: #942857. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * d/rules: remove cruft. -- Holger Levsen Sat, 24 Oct 2020 14:02:30 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.15) unstable; urgency=medium [ Dmitry Shachnev ] * Use dh_sphinxdoc instead of dh_linktree, to simplify the packaging. -- Holger Levsen Sun, 05 Jul 2020 12:24:55 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.14) unstable; urgency=medium * debian: avoid code copies by using dh-linktree. Thanks to a snippet from src:debian-policy recommends (instead of depends) on sphinx packages are created. * d/copyright: switch to machine readable DEP5 format. -- Holger Levsen Sun, 05 Jul 2020 00:55:46 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.13) unstable; urgency=medium * pkgs: clarify intended audience of d/changelog. Closes: #878967. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * d/rules and control: use symlinks instead of embedding libjs-jquery and libjs-underscore and thus add recommends to those packages. Thanks, lintian. -- Holger Levsen Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:52:17 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium [ Tobias Wiese ] * beyond-pkging: fix dead link to policy. Closes: #962011. [ Holger Levsen ] * d/copyright and index.rst: update copyright notices. Closes: #960926. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * Bump to debhelper-compat 13. -- Holger Levsen Tue, 09 Jun 2020 02:10:56 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium [ Paul Wise ] * l10n.rst: replace ddtp2.debian.net with ddtp.debian.org. [ Jochen Sprickerhof ] * Fix build with Sphinx 2.4. Closes: #955094. * resources.rst: fix Freenode FAQ links. [ Judit Foglszinger ] * pkgs.rst: add footnote clarifying removability of packages from the upload queue. Closes: #956818. [ Kentaro Hayashi ] * (ja) tools.po: resolve fuzzy in debiandoc-sgml. [ Holger Levsen ] * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:44:02 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium [ Carsten Schoenert ] * (de) index.po: Update translation. * (de) best-pkging-practices.po: Update translation. * (de) beyond-pkging.po: Update translation. * (de) developer-duties.po: Update translation. * (de) l10n.po: Update translation. * (de) new-maintainer.po: Update translation. * (de) pkgs.po: Update translation. * (de) scope.po: Update translation. * (de) tools.po: Update translation. * (de) resources.po: Update translation. [ Kentaro Hayashi ] * (ja) best-pkging-practices.po: resolve fuzzy. * (ja) developer-duties.po: resolve fuzzy. * (ja) l10n.po: fix fuzzy against missing l10n tag. * (ja) new-maintainer.po: resolve fuzzy * (ja) pkgs.po: resolve fuzzy. * (ja) resources.po: fix wrong translation about "testing", resolve fuzzy. [ Holger Levsen ] * d/control: set Homepage: to https://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#devref -- Holger Levsen Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:47:53 +0100 developers-reference (11.0.9) unstable; urgency=medium * pkgs: add a suggestion to comment a "wontfix". Closes: #484804. * pkgs: add section explaining uploads to stable-updates. Closes: #896013. Thanks to Adam D. Barratt for review and improvements. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * d/control: bump standards version to 4.5.0, no changes needed. * d/changelog: - wrap long lines in changelog entries: 3.2, 2.11, thanks to lintian-brush. - fix misspelling of Close => Closes, thanks to lintian-brush. -- Holger Levsen Thu, 20 Feb 2020 02:02:08 +0100 developers-reference (11.0.8) unstable; urgency=medium [ Philipp Kern ] * pkgs: Change the email address of the non-free review team. [ Leo Singer ] * best-pkging-practices: Small typo fix. [ Holger Levsen ] * resources: correct misleading text about freezes. Closes: #945906 * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:56:00 +0100 developers-reference (11.0.7) unstable; urgency=medium * best-pkging-practices: recommend "command -v" instead of "which" (Closes: #904246) and simplify paragraph. * pkgs: RMs may encourage (not allow) less delayed NMUs. * l10n: minor update and language improvements. Closes: #623707 * tools: deprecate debiandoc-sgml further, mention python3-spinx as an alternative. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Fri, 29 Nov 2019 11:33:47 +0100 developers-reference (11.0.6) unstable; urgency=medium * pkgs.rst: point out that the tech-ctte prefers fresh bug reports with a summary. Closes: #484805. * best-pkging-practices.rst: improve paragraph about dummy transitional packages. Closes: #703612. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. * d/control: improve descriptions to include Debian Maintainers as audience of the package. * README.contributing: - drop sentences obsoleted by the fix for #754189. - add paragraph about 'Git commit messages and d/changelog entries'. - mention debcheckout as a means to get the git source. - re-order paragraphs. -- Holger Levsen Thu, 31 Oct 2019 20:13:16 +0100 developers-reference (11.0.5) unstable; urgency=medium * developer-duties.rst: add a reminder to retire from teams. Closes: #548116. Thanks to Judit Foglszinger for the wording. * pkgs.rst: add a note explaining that RMs should be asked before uploading to t-p-u. Closes: #541956 * best-pkging-practices.rst: - repacked tarballs may have any directory name inside, but it's best to reflect the tarball name. Closes: #470960 - repacked tarballs are best compressed with xz. * l10n.rst: explain to use both 'patch' and 'l10n' tags for l10n bugs. Closes: #483235. * tools.rst: mention many more packages: adequate, blhc, debian-policy, developers-reference, diffoscope, doc-debian, duck, how-can-i-help, i18nspector, libconfig-model-dpkg-perl, licensecheck, lintian-brush, maint-guide, packaging-tutorial, piuparts, reportbug & suspicious-source. Closes: #540248, #750993, #941274. * d/developers-reference.png: scale to 64x64 to avoid AppStream hint. * README.contributing: describe change handling for src:developers-reference. Closes: #754189. Thanks to Lucas Nussbaum. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:45:23 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.4) unstable; urgency=medium * pkgs.rst: - improve documentation for (old)stable updates. Closes: #931743. - suggest to think about the testing suite before uploading. Closes: #731666 - Thanks to Peter Green for the wording. - clarify to install and test on unstable. Closes: #550283. - mention piuparts can be used for tests before uploads. * Makefile: - add hint what commit msg to use when updating translations. - add new target to show the translation status. * README.contributing: explain new status target. * d/control: - drop Lucas Nussbaum from uploaders. Thanks for all your work, Lucas! - bump standards version to 4.4.1, no changes needed. * Update all .po files for changed strings in the English original. -- Holger Levsen Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:54:32 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium [ Judit Foglszinger ] * developer-duties.rst: describe new process for emeritus. Closes: #884857. [ Ansgar ] * Update most remaining links to use https:// instead of http:// * resources.rst: - use deb.d.o for experimental sources.list entry. - do not suggest that mirrors are FTP servers * best-pkging-practices.rst: update references to svn.d.o to use salsa.d.o instead. * pkgs.rst: update links to release team resources. * new-maintainer.rst: - drop footnote about version 4 OpenPGP keys. - new-maintainer.rst: replace some occurrences of GnuPG with OpenPGP. [ Osamu Aoki ] * Trim tailing whitespaces in several places. [ Thomas Vincent ] * Small typo fix in French translation. -- Holger Levsen Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:29:14 +0100 developers-reference (11.0.2) unstable; urgency=medium [ Osamu Aoki ] * Fix missing opening pages. Closes: #934526. * Fix title of PDF for English. * Makefile: use UTC to fix reproducibility issues. * More flexible build script. * Run" make update-po". * deleted: debian/TODO.packaging. -- Holger Levsen Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:32:13 +0200 developers-reference (11.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium [ Holger Levsen ] * Increment version number to celebrate the switch to ReST and the beginning of the Debian 11 development cycle. [ Osamu Aoki ] * Reorganize upstream build script removing debian/* data dependency while addressing SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH issue inspired by Lars Kruse (many thanks!). * Also improve Debian packaging. * Add language menu. * Add pull-down language selection menu. * List appendixes in ToC. * Gnome desktop icon. -- Holger Levsen Sat, 10 Aug 2019 18:41:03 +0200 developers-reference (3.4.26) unstable; urgency=medium * Merge work by Osamu Aoki to migrate to Sphinx. Closes: #931548. After 22 years of the Debian Developers Reference being maintained as an SGML document, the sources are now maintained as ReStructuredText, while the translations remain .po files. Please note that this is work in progress and that there will be bugs. Please do file them, with or without patches. Big kudos and many thanks to Osamu Aoki for doing most of the work on this. Obviously also many thanks to everyone else involved, both upstream and in Debian! * Adjust build-depends and d/rules and README.contributing as needed. * Bump standards version to 4.4.0, no changes needed. * Update to debhelper-compat 12. -- Holger Levsen Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:23:41 -0300 # Older entries have been removed from this changelog. # To read the complete changelog use `apt changelog developers-reference-ja`.