[med-svn] r6994 - trunk/community/website/docs
Charles Plessy
plessy at alioth.debian.org
Sat Jun 11 01:49:53 UTC 2011
Author: plessy
Date: 2011-06-11 01:49:53 +0000 (Sat, 11 Jun 2011)
New Revision: 6994
Modified:
trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Link updates, indentation and markup changes, and correction of capitalisation.
All cosmetic.
Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2011-06-11 00:31:52 UTC (rev 6993)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2011-06-11 01:49:53 UTC (rev 6994)
@@ -536,14 +536,14 @@
<listitem>
<formalpara>
<title>Priority</title>
- <para>Should be <quote>optional</quote> unless forbidden by the Debian policy (see section 2.5). Packages of priority <quote>extra</quote> are excluded from some QA tests.</para>
+ <para>Should be <quote>optional</quote> unless forbidden by the Debian policy (<ulink url="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities">see §2.5</ulink>). Packages of priority <quote>extra</quote> are excluded from some QA tests.</para>
</formalpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<formalpara>
<title>Maintainer</title>
- <para>Maintainer should be Debian Med Packaging Team <email>debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org</email>. Please subscribe to this list if you list yourself in the <code>Uploaders:</code> field of one of Debian Med's packages. You can refer to the <ulink url="http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org">QA page</ulink> corresponding to this email to gather information about the packages.</para>
+ <para>Maintainer should be <code>Debian Med Packaging Team <email>debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org</email></code>. Please subscribe to this list if you list yourself in the <code>Uploaders:</code> field of one of Debian Med's packages. You can refer to the <ulink url="http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org">QA page</ulink> corresponding to this email to gather information about the packages.</para>
</formalpara>
</listitem>
@@ -596,23 +596,19 @@
<sect2 id="debian-copyright">
<title><filename>debian/copyright</filename></title>
- <para>We use the <ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat">proposed machine-readable format</ulink>
- for the <filename>debian/copyright</filename> file. The <computeroutput>Source</computeroutput> field does not
- need to contain the full URL to the particular version that is being packaged, since this can be determined by
- the <command>uscan</command> program with the <filename>debian/watch</filename> file. Please list yourself in the
- <computeroutput>Files: debian/*</computeroutput> section if you think that your contributions are not trivial and
- therefore subjected to copyright. Please chose a license that is compatible with the program you package. You can
- also use <quote>same as if it were in the public domain</quote> or <quote>same as the packaged program itself</quote>.
- </para>
<para>
+ We use the <ulink url="http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/">proposed machine-readable format</ulink> for the <filename>debian/copyright</filename> file. The <computeroutput>Source</computeroutput> field does not need to contain the full URL to the particular version that is being packaged, since this can be determined by the <command>uscan</command> program with the <filename>debian/watch</filename> file. Please list yourself in the <computeroutput>Files: debian/*</computeroutput> section if you think that your contributions are not trivial and therefore subjected to copyright. Please chose a license that is compatible with the program you package. You can also use <quote>same as if it were in the public domain</quote> or <quote>same as the packaged program itself</quote>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
To verify the correct syntax of the <filename>debian/copyright</filename> file you can use: <command>config-edit</command> <option>-application <replaceable>dpkg-copyright</replaceable></option> <option>-ui <replaceable>none</replaceable></option>.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="debian-changelog">
<title><filename>debian/changelog</filename></title>
- <para>Packages hosted in our Subversion repository, that have been modified but not uploaded must use <emphasis>UNRELEASED</emphasis> as a distribution name. This can be done automatically by declaring <emphasis>DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog</emphasis> in <filename>~/.devscripts</filename> and using <command>dch</command>.</para>
+ <para>Packages hosted in our Subversion repository, that have been modified but not uploaded must use <literal>UNRELEASED</literal> as a distribution name. This can be done automatically by declaring <literal><varname>DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC</varname>=<replaceable>changelog</replaceable></literal> in <filename>~/.devscripts</filename> and using <command>dch</command>.</para>
</sect2>
+
<sect2 id="debian-readme-source">
<title><filename>debian/README.source</filename></title>
<para>This file is recommended by the Policy (<ulink url="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource">§ 4.14</ulink>) from version 3.8.0 for documenting source package handling. Please follow the recommendation. For instance, this file is needed when we use a patch system, when the upstream sources are in another format than gzipped tar archive, when we repack the sources,…</para>
@@ -645,7 +641,7 @@
<sect3 id="vcs-svn">
<title>Source package stored in a Subversion repository</title>
<para>
- We use the <literal>MergeWithUpstream</literal> workflow, so please
+ We use the <literal>mergeWithUpstream</literal> workflow, so please
keep all the modifications in the <filename
class="directory">debian</filename> directory, and use the
<option>-o</option> option of <command>svn-buildpackage</command>, as
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