Bug#670362: Stable updates section outdated
Package: developers-reference
Severity: minor
Tag: patch
The attached patch updates the developers reference to direct people
to file a bug using reportbug instead of mailing debian-release.
Don Armstrong
--
It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong
-- Chris Torek
http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
From 107c53c58ae60600898d8bd2f3890115856765c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:25:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Upgrades to stable should be discussed using the
release.debian.org pseudopackage and reportbug. See
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/09/msg00005.html
for details
---
developers-reference/pkgs.dbk | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/developers-reference/pkgs.dbk b/developers-reference/pkgs.dbk
index 8964d61..b59d03f 100644
--- a/developers-reference/pkgs.dbk
+++ b/developers-reference/pkgs.dbk
@@ -311,8 +311,8 @@ point release.
</para>
<para>
To ensure that your upload will be accepted, you should discuss the changes
-with the stable release team before you upload. For that, send a mail to
-the &email-debian-release; mailing list, including the patch you want to
+with the stable release team before you upload. For that, file a bug against
+the release.debian.org pseudopackage using reportbug, including the patch you want to
apply to the package version currently in <literal>stable</literal>. Always
be verbose and detailed in your changelog entries for uploads to the
<literal>stable</literal> distribution.
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1.7.10
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