1 2006-10-02 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
3 * policy.sgml (Build-Depends):
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5 Fix spelling error in "dependency"
7 2006-06-20 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
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12 Text Documentation --> Plain text documentation, since
13 the meaning appeared unclear.
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27 2006-06-19 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
29 * upgrading-checklist.html (issue):
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33 * policy.sgml (INSTALL_DIR):
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37 Clarify the fact that most fields can have multi line
38 values in control files, apart from the Uploaders field.
39 Since the packaging system can handle multi line fields
40 anyway, it does not make sense to prohibit them in
42 Mention the need to have a copyright file in the source
43 package section as well.
45 2006-05-03 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
47 * policy.sgml (INSTALL_DIR):
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49 Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the
50 standard directive that shared libraries must be
51 compiled with -fPIC, and static libraries without,
52 added the protocol to be followed when doing so.
54 2006-04-26 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
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58 Added an informative footnote to document the fact that
59 while dpkg does handle changes to file
60 ownership/permissions on upgrade, ownership or
61 permissions on directories already on the system are not
63 (Version): Disambiguate the overloaded use of section for main,
64 contrib, non-free as well as for admin, lib,devel,
65 etc. Various fixes based on a 1999 nit picking message
68 2006-04-25 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
70 * policy-process.sgml:
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74 * upgrading-checklist.html (issue):
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76 Document the fact that cgi executable location is
77 changing, and that web servers need to provide script
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81 mentioned the change to FHS 2.3
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84 When scripts are installed into into a directory in the
85 system PATH, the script name should not include
86 aextension that denotes the scripting language currently
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91 [PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin. Since
92 most web servers do include this, it seems like it is
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96 Changed the default version we refer to in
97 policy to version 2.3, and added in specific
98 exceptions t the new version of the FHS.
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101 Mention that all fileds, except the Uploaders, are
102 supposed to be a single logical line, which may be
103 spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by
104 space is elided). Also mention that anything parsing
105 the control file must allow for a multi-line uploaders
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109 When scripts are installed into into a directory in the
110 system PATH, the script name should not include an
111 extensionthat denotes the scripting language currently
112 used to implement it.
113 No longer specify the full list of common license
114 files,since the list gets out dated with newer
115 versions of license files.
116 Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing legal
117 architecture strings, since that's what is used
118 by everyone anyway. The version in policy was
119 wrong, but that s=does not seem to have
120 hindered anyone, which indicates that this
121 policy directive was uneeded. Now the
122 dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative,
123 which it is, and the format is in an
124 informative foot note.
125 Make use of invoke-rc.d mandatory when calling initscripts.
126 Changed various X related paths to reflect the move over
127 to Xorg, and away from /usr/X11R6.
129 2005-12-26 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
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133 Mention config files, with a proper reference in the
134 maintainer scripts area
136 2005-12-24 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
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144 Policy does not describe the current tasksel/tasks
145 situation very well. After correctiong the errors, and
146 eliminating obsolete paragraphs, therewas nothing that a
147 general maintainer needs to do about tasksel task
148 selection, it makes no sense to have this section in
150 One of the examples listed in B.1 is not correct and
151 does not work. Three problems. One is that 'xof' does
152 not write to stdout, 'xOf' does. Another is
153 that filenames in debs start with "./" and so
154 the listed file will not be matched. Third is
155 that f needs a filename and "-" is usually the
156 tradition, but hyphen problems with fonts
157 probably caused it to be dropped. That last
158 probably needs a special crosscheck to make sure
159 it makes it through the formatting.
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163 Fixed up the description, and summary, of the maintainer
164 scripts call sequence.
165 remove obsolete footnote statements about UTF-8
166 Erase mention of obsolete non-US section
168 srivasta@debian.org--etch/debian-policy--devel--3.6--patch-6
169 The format field of .dsc is now mandatory
171 2005-06-18 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
173 * virtual-package-names-list.txt (Format):
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175 Added x-session-manager
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178 Added the section on Scheme and interpreters, which
179 includes: scheme-r4rs scheme-r5rs scheme-ieee-11878-1900
180 scheme-srfi-0 scheme-srfi-7 scheme-srfi-55
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183 Added x-display-manager
185 * upgrading-checklist.html (issue):
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187 Fixed a type (missing /)
189 2005-06-16 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
191 * upgrading-checklist.html (issue):
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193 Document the fact that HTTP servers are recommended to
194 provide an /image alias for packages to share images
197 * policy.sgml (http):
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199 The proposal states that /usr/share/images/<package> and
200 can be referred to as
201 http://localhost/images/<package>/<filename. This allows
202 a simple solution to making images in packages
203 accessible to the HTTP server without having to resort
206 Various spelling errors were also corrected in a spell
209 Provide the URL for the down-loadable version of policy
210 documents in various formats, instead of just providing
213 * virtual-package-names-list.txt (Format):
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215 Removed aspell-dictionary, as requested by the package
216 maintainers, as it is no longer in use.