Bugs in package developers-reference (version 12.18) in unstable -- Debian Bug report logs

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (29 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; More information needed (3 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Will Not Fix (2 bugs)
Forwarded bugs -- Minor bugs (1 bug)

#101870 [w| |=] [developers-reference] dealing with having several versions of a program (alternatives etc)
Reported by: Warren Turkal <wturkal@cbu.edu>; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:04:21 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 424879; Found in version 3.8.8; Filed 21 years and 302 days ago; Modified 217 days ago;
#150607 [w| | ] [developers-reference] document best practices for web apps
Reported by: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 07:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 3.0; Filed 20 years and 303 days ago; Modified 4 years and 75 days ago;
#225020 [w| | ] [developers-reference] Describe in 6.7.5 best practice for splitting arch-indep package
Reported by: Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>; Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:33:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 3.3.3; Filed 19 years and 117 days ago; Modified 8 years ago;
#253511 [w| | ] [developers-reference] provide guideline to keep the package namespace sane
Reported by: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>; Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 21:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 18 years and 314 days ago; Modified 103 days ago;
#255819 [w| |=] [developers-reference] debian-policy: unclear about how packages should move dirs while allowing compat symlinks
Reported by: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>; Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 631857; Filed 18 years and 300 days ago; Modified 2 years and 160 days ago;
#258437 [w| |=] [developers-reference] developers-reference: wanna-build states & buildd problem resolution
Reported by: Drew Scott Daniels <ddaniels@UMAlumni.mb.ca>; Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 940144; Filed 18 years and 284 days ago; Modified 2 years and 160 days ago;
#301011 [w| | ] [developers-reference] more verbose instructions on new upstream package
Reported by: Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>; Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:48:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 3.3.5; Filed 18 years and 27 days ago; Modified 18 years and 27 days ago;
#315583 [w| | ] [developers-reference] explanation of Conflicts/Replaces/Provides
Reported by: Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org>; Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 17 years and 300 days ago; Modified 17 years and 299 days ago;
#323066 [w| |=] [developers-reference] Best practices for dummy/transition packages
Reported by: Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>; Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 486754; Found in version developers-reference/3.3.6; Filed 17 years and 248 days ago; Modified 2 years and 160 days ago;
#368841 [w| | ] [developers-reference] developers-reference: Explain that Debian isn't a democracy and how it works instead
Reported by: hertzog@debian.org; Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 16 years and 329 days ago; Modified 16 years and 329 days ago;
#399028 [w| | ] [developers-reference] developers-reference: best practices to create and delete system accounts
Reported by: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>; Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.3.7; Filed 16 years and 153 days ago; Modified 3 years and 193 days ago;
#436162 [w| | ] [developers-reference] developers-reference: Please document best practices for requesting translations and updates
Reported by: Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>; Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 22:03:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.3.8; Filed 15 years and 257 days ago; Modified 14 years and 86 days ago;
#465696 [w| | ] [developers-reference] developers-reference -- Please document more about the buildd and release processes
Reported by: Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>; Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:00:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.3.8; Filed 15 years and 64 days ago; Modified 15 years and 60 days ago;
#481024 [w| | ] [developers-reference] developers-reference: Document the new X-Debian: and X-Debian-Package: convention
Reported by: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 08:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.3.9; Filed 14 years and 340 days ago; Modified 14 years and 340 days ago;
#486368 [w| | ] [developers-reference] developers-reference: please add an example of how to rename a binary package
Reported by: Luca Capello <luca@pca.it>; Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.4.0; Filed 14 years and 307 days ago; Modified 14 years and 307 days ago;
#499167 [w| |=] [developers-reference] developers-reference: please explain deb/debian/ds suffixes in versions
Reported by: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:57:13 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 560287, 636236, 774843; Found in versions developers-reference/3.4.12, developers-reference/3.4.0; Filed 14 years and 214 days ago; Modified 2 years and 160 days ago;
#536889 [w| | ] [developers-reference] [developers-reference]: explicitly deprecate verb phrase synopses
Reported by: Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>; Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:21:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 13 years and 278 days ago; Modified 13 years and 272 days ago;
#542684 [w| | ] [developers-reference] developers-reference: Improve "Getting started" to talk about more than New Maintainer's Guide
Reported by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>; Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:30:13 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.4.1; Filed 13 years and 241 days ago; Modified 13 years and 241 days ago;
#544981 [w| | ] [developers-reference] Discourage native packages that are not tightly specific to Debian
Reported by: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:09:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 13 years and 226 days ago; Modified 6 years and 80 days ago;
#561494 [w| | ] [developers-reference] devref and policy should agree on where to document tarball repacking
Reported by: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>; Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:30:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.4.3; Filed 13 years and 122 days ago; Modified 4 years and 74 days ago;
#589478 [w| |☣] [developers-reference] document best practices for date-based and snapshot versions
Reported by: Josip Rodin <joy@debbugs.entuzijast.net>; Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:48:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 20 years and 27 days ago; Modified 3 years and 178 days ago;
#592317 [w| | ] [developers-reference] developers-reference: Document the communication channels and what's expected from DD in terms of communication/marketing
Reported by: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 08:00:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.4.3; Filed 12 years and 252 days ago; Modified 12 years and 245 days ago;
#620686 [w| | ] [developers-reference] document how to deal with technically negligent developers
Reported by: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>; Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 13:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.4.4; Filed 12 years and 15 days ago; Modified 4 years and 74 days ago;
#680174 [w| | ] [developers-reference] Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian
Reported by: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>; Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 09:45:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.4.8; Filed 10 years and 287 days ago; Modified 8 years and 261 days ago;
#742552 [w| | ] [developers-reference] developers-reference should encourage verification of upstream cryptographic signatures
Reported by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>; Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 04:27:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 9 years and 120 days ago; Modified 4 years and 74 days ago;
#757274 [w| | ] [developers-reference] devref: please point upstream to PTS subscription UI when forwarding bugs
Reported by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 20:06:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.4.13; Filed 8 years and 254 days ago; Modified 4 years and 74 days ago;
#774846 [w| | ] [developers-reference] developers-reference: please document how to upload to stable/stable-proposed-updates
Reported by: Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>; Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 11:12:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.4.12; Filed 8 years and 99 days ago; Modified 8 years and 72 days ago;
#829611 [w| | ] [developers-reference] Add transitions instructions to developers-reference
Reported by: henrich@debian.org; Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 17:30:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 6 years and 286 days ago; Modified 66 days ago;
#830562 [w| | ] [developers-reference] developers-reference: Document expectations & best practices for including AppArmor policy in packages
Reported by: intrigeri@debian.org; Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 12:21:02 UTC; Owned by: intrigeri@debian.org; Severity: wishlist; Found in version developers-reference/3.4.18; Filed 6 years and 281 days ago; Modified 4 years and 74 days ago;

#299927 [w|M|=☣] [developers-reference] developers-reference: Please add info about tagging packages with debtags
Reported by: Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>; Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:18:07 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Merged with 339557; Filed 18 years and 33 days ago; Modified 66 days ago;
#801065 [w|M| ] [developers-reference] turn #904558 into advice - how postinst should deal with failures
Reported by: Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org>; Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 20:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version developers-reference/3.4.16; Filed 7 years and 194 days ago; Modified 51 days ago;
#1033162 [w|M| ] [developers-reference] Document proper strict depends like main-dev (= ${source:Version})) but NMU, backport and piupart safe
Reported by: Bastien Roucariès <rouca@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 16:42:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version developers-reference/12.18; Filed 28 days ago; Modified 28 days ago;

#172138 [w|☹| ] [developers-reference] document best practices for init scripts
Reported by: Adam DiCarlo <adam@onshored.com>; Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 17:03:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Found in version 3.2; Filed 20 years and 134 days ago; Modified 4 years and 75 days ago;
#318637 [w|☹| ] [developers-reference] Recommend that -dev documents be symlinks
Reported by: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>; Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:48:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Filed 17 years and 277 days ago; Modified 3 years and 193 days ago;

#944330 [m| |↝☣] [python3-sphinx] No way to disable line breaks at hyphens for text output
Reported by: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 00:57:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Forwarded to https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/6867; Filed 3 years and 159 days ago; Modified 3 years and 60 days ago;

Status
- 34 Outstanding
- 1 Forwarded
Severity
- 1 Minor bugs
- 34 Wishlist items
Classification
- 29 Unclassified
- 3 More information needed
- 2 Will Not Fix

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Debian Bug report logs: Bugs in package developers-reference (version 12.18) in unstable

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (29 bugs)

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; More information needed (3 bugs)

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Will Not Fix (2 bugs)

Forwarded bugs -- Minor bugs (1 bug)

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