I might be nitpicking, but I believe it should be written like "Git", and not like "GIT" - I don't have any strong backup to strengthen my case other than that in "official" places only is written like git or Git, but pretty much never like GIT. - and, also, it isn't an abbreviation, right?
(And also, in the developers reference its never written like GIT.) Osamus patch, with the above mentioned change attached. -- Andreas Rönnquist gus...@gusnan.se
diff --git a/developers-reference/tools.dbk b/developers-reference/tools.dbk index 70514dc..22af3a3 100644 --- a/developers-reference/tools.dbk +++ b/developers-reference/tools.dbk @@ -212,17 +212,17 @@ packages. The following packages help with the package building process, general driving <command>dpkg-buildpackage</command> as well as handling supporting tasks. </para> -<section id="cvs-buildpackage"> -<title><systemitem role="package">cvs-buildpackage</systemitem></title> +<section id="git-buildpackage"> +<title><systemitem role="package">git-buildpackage</systemitem></title> <para> -<systemitem role="package">cvs-buildpackage</systemitem> provides the -capability to inject or import Debian source packages into a CVS repository, -build a Debian package from the CVS repository, and helps in integrating +<systemitem role="package">git-buildpackage</systemitem> provides the +capability to inject or import Debian source packages into a Git repository, +build a Debian package from the Git repository, and helps in integrating upstream changes into the repository. </para> <para> -These utilities provide an infrastructure to facilitate the use of CVS by -Debian maintainers. This allows one to keep separate CVS branches of a package +These utilities provide an infrastructure to facilitate the use of Git by +Debian maintainers. This allows one to keep separate Git branches of a package for <literal>stable</literal>, <literal>unstable</literal> and possibly <literal>experimental</literal> distributions, along with the other benefits of a version control system. @@ -254,9 +254,8 @@ package's build-dependencies are correct, and to be sure that unnecessary and wrong build dependencies will not exist in the resulting package. </para> <para> -A related package is <systemitem role="package">pbuilder-uml</systemitem>, -which goes even further by doing the build within a User Mode Linux -environment. +A related package is <systemitem role="package">cowbuilder</systemitem>, +which speeds up the build process using COW filesystem on any standard Linux filesystem. </para> </section>