1 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
3 * Policy: Document the FreeDesktop menu entries and media type declarations.
4 The Debian menu is optionally supported.
5 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com>
7 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (for the menu entries)
8 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
12 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:11:24 +0900
14 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
17 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
21 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
22 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
27 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
28 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
32 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
33 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
34 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
35 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
39 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
40 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
41 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
44 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
45 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
49 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
50 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
52 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
54 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
55 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
56 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
60 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
61 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
65 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
66 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
68 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
70 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
71 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
72 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
75 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
76 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
77 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
80 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
81 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
82 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
83 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
85 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
86 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
87 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
88 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
89 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
90 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
91 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
92 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
93 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
94 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
95 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
96 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
98 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
99 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
100 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
101 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
103 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
105 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
107 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
108 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
109 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
111 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
112 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
113 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
114 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
119 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
120 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
124 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
125 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
129 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
130 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
131 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
132 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
136 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
137 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
141 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
142 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
144 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
147 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
148 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
149 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
152 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
153 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
158 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
160 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
163 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
164 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
165 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
166 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
168 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
169 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
170 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
171 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
172 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
173 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
174 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
175 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
176 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
177 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
178 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
179 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
180 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
181 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
182 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
183 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
184 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
186 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
187 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
188 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
189 good to know which version one is looking at.
190 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
191 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
192 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
193 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
194 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
195 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
196 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
198 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
199 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
200 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
201 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
202 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
204 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
205 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
206 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
208 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
209 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
210 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
211 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
213 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
215 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
219 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
220 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
221 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
222 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
223 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
224 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
225 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
226 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
227 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
228 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
233 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
234 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
239 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
240 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
241 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
244 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
246 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
247 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
251 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
252 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
255 Closes: #620870, #532120
256 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
257 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
262 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
263 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
264 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
268 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
269 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
270 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
271 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
272 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
274 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
275 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
276 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
277 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
278 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
279 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
280 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
281 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
282 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
283 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
284 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
285 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
286 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
287 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
288 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
289 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
291 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
293 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
294 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
295 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
296 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
297 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
298 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
299 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
300 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
301 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
302 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
305 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
307 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
308 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
309 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
310 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
315 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
316 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
318 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
319 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
320 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
321 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
324 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
326 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
330 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
331 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
332 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
335 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
336 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
337 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
339 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
340 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
346 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
347 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
348 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
351 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
352 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
357 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
358 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
359 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
360 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
363 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
364 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
365 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
368 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
369 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
374 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
376 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
379 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
382 Closes: #459868, #581011
383 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
384 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
386 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
388 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
389 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
391 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
393 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
394 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
396 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
398 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
399 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
403 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
404 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
407 Closes: #501930, #593909
408 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
409 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
413 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
414 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
415 machine. (Closes: #591857)
416 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
417 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
418 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
419 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
420 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
421 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
422 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
423 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
424 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
425 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
427 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
428 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
429 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
430 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
431 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
432 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
433 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
434 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
435 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
436 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
437 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
438 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
439 than the version in oldstable.
440 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
441 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
442 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
443 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
444 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
445 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
446 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
447 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
448 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
449 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
450 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
451 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
452 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
453 package. (Closes: #609160)
455 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
457 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
460 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
465 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
466 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
470 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
471 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
475 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
476 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
478 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
480 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
481 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
485 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
486 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
490 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
491 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
495 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
496 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
498 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
500 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
501 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
502 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
503 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
505 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
506 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
511 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
512 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
517 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
518 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
522 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
523 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
527 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
528 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
532 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
533 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
534 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
537 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
538 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
542 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
543 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
547 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
549 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
550 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
551 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
552 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
553 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
554 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
555 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
556 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
557 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
559 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
560 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
561 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
562 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
563 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
564 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
566 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
568 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
574 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
577 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
578 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
579 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
580 and distribution license' (three times).
581 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
582 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
587 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
589 Proposed by Santiago Vila
590 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
597 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
598 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
602 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
603 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
604 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
606 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
607 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
609 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
610 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
614 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
615 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
616 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
618 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
620 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
621 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
624 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
626 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
627 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
630 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
632 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
633 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
634 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
637 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
638 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
643 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
644 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
648 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
649 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
653 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
654 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
655 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
659 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
660 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
661 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
664 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
665 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
670 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
671 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
672 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
675 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
676 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
677 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
678 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
679 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
680 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
681 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
682 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
683 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
684 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
685 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
686 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
687 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
688 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
689 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
690 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
691 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
692 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
693 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
694 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
695 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
696 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
697 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
698 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
699 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
700 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
701 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
702 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
703 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
704 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
705 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
706 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
708 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
710 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
712 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
716 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
718 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
719 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
723 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
726 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
727 Wording: Steve Langasek.
728 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
729 Seconded: Julien Cristau
730 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
733 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
734 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
735 Seconded: Russ Allbery
736 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
739 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
740 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
741 Seconded: Russ Allbery
743 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
744 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
745 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
746 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
747 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
748 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
749 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
750 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
753 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
754 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
755 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
756 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
757 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
758 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
759 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
760 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
761 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
762 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
763 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
764 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
765 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
766 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
767 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
770 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
771 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
772 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
773 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
774 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
776 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
779 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
780 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
781 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
782 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
783 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
784 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
787 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
789 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
792 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
793 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
796 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
797 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
798 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
799 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
801 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
802 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
803 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
804 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
806 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
807 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
808 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
809 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
810 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
811 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
813 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
814 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
815 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
816 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
817 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
819 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
820 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
821 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
822 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
824 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
825 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
826 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
827 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
829 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
830 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
831 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
832 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
834 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
835 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
836 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
837 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
839 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
840 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
841 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
842 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
844 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
845 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
846 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
847 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
848 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
849 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
850 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
851 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
852 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
853 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
854 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
855 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
856 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
857 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
858 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
860 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
861 Source field descriptions.
862 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
863 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
864 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
865 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
866 description says otherwise.
868 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
870 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
874 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
875 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
876 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
877 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
878 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
880 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
881 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
882 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
883 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
885 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
886 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
888 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
890 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
891 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
893 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
895 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
896 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
897 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
898 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
902 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
903 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
904 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
905 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
906 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
908 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
909 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
910 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
911 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
913 * Add myself to Uploaders.
916 * Add myself to Uploaders.
917 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
919 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
920 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
921 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
923 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
925 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
928 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
929 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
930 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
932 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
933 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
934 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
935 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
937 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
938 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
939 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
940 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
942 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
943 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
944 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
945 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
947 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
948 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
949 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
950 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
952 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
953 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
954 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
955 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
957 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
958 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
959 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
960 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
962 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
963 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
964 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
965 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
967 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
968 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
969 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
970 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
972 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
973 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
974 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
975 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
977 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
978 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
979 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
980 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
981 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
983 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
984 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
985 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
986 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
987 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
988 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
989 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
990 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
991 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
992 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
993 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
994 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
995 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
996 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
997 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
998 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
999 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1000 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1001 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1002 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1003 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1004 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1005 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1006 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1007 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1008 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1009 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1010 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1011 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1012 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1014 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1015 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1016 links was completed long ago.
1017 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1019 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1021 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1024 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1026 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1028 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1031 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1032 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1033 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1034 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1035 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1036 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1037 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1038 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1039 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1041 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1043 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1045 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1046 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1047 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1048 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1049 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1050 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1051 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1053 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1054 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1055 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1056 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1058 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1059 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1060 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1061 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1062 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1063 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1064 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1065 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1066 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1067 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1068 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1069 Closes: #186700, #458910
1070 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1071 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1072 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1074 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1075 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1076 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1077 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1078 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1079 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1080 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1081 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1083 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1084 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1086 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1087 * Add an md5sums control file.
1088 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1089 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1090 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1091 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1092 currently part of policy.
1093 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1094 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1095 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1098 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1100 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1103 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1104 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1105 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1106 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1107 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1108 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1109 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1110 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1111 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1112 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1113 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1114 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1115 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1116 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1117 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1119 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1121 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1122 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1123 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1125 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1126 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1127 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1128 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1129 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1130 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1131 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1132 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1133 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1134 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1135 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1136 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1137 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1138 debconf specification.
1139 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1140 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1142 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1144 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1147 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1149 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1150 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1152 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1154 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1155 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1156 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1157 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1158 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1160 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1161 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1162 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1163 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1164 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1165 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1166 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1167 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1168 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1169 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1170 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1171 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1172 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1174 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1175 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1179 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1180 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1181 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1182 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1183 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1184 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1185 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1186 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1188 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1190 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1193 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1194 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1195 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1196 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1197 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1198 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1200 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1201 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1202 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1203 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1204 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1205 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1206 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1207 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1208 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1209 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1211 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1212 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1213 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1214 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1215 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1216 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1218 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1220 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1223 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1224 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1225 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1227 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1228 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1230 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1232 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1235 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1236 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1237 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1238 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1239 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1240 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1241 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1242 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1243 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1245 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1246 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1247 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1248 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1249 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1250 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1252 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1253 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1254 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1255 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1258 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1260 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1263 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1265 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1266 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1267 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1268 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1269 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1270 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1271 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1272 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1273 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1274 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1275 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1276 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1277 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1278 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1279 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1280 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1281 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1282 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1283 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1284 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1285 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1286 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1287 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1288 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1289 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1291 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1292 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1293 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1294 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1296 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1297 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1298 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1299 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1300 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1301 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1302 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1303 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1304 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1305 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1306 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1308 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1309 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1311 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1312 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1313 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1314 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1315 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1316 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1317 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1318 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1319 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1320 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1321 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1323 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1325 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1329 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1330 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1331 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1332 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1333 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1334 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1335 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1336 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1337 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1338 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1339 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1340 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1342 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1343 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1344 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1345 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1346 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1347 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1348 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1349 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1350 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1351 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1352 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1353 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1354 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1355 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1356 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1357 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1358 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1359 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1360 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1363 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1365 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1368 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1369 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1370 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1372 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1373 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1374 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1375 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1377 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1379 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1383 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1384 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1385 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1386 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1387 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1388 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1389 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1390 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1391 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1393 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1394 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1395 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1397 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1398 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1399 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1400 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1401 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1402 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1403 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1405 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1406 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1407 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1408 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1410 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1411 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1412 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1413 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1414 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1415 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1416 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1417 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1419 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1420 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1421 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1422 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1423 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1424 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1425 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1426 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1427 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1428 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1429 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1430 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1431 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1432 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1433 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1434 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1435 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1437 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1439 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1443 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1444 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1445 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1446 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1447 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1448 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1449 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1450 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1452 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1453 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1454 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1455 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1456 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1457 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1458 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1459 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1460 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1461 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1462 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1463 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1464 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1465 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1466 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1467 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1468 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1470 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1471 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1472 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1475 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1476 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1477 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1479 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1480 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1481 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1482 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1483 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1484 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1486 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1487 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1489 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1490 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1491 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1492 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1493 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1494 Closes: #185943, #237049
1496 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1498 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1504 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1505 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1506 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1507 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1508 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1509 running. closes: Bug#187250
1510 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1511 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1512 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1513 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1514 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1515 user closes: Bug#176506
1517 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1519 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1523 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1524 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1525 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1526 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1527 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1528 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1529 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1530 deb-building toolchain.
1531 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1532 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1533 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1534 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1535 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1536 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1537 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1538 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1539 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1540 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1541 sections about changelog files.
1543 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1544 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1545 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1546 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1547 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1548 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1550 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1551 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1552 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1553 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1554 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1555 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1556 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1557 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1558 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1559 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1560 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1561 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1562 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1563 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1564 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1565 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1566 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1567 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1568 for the restructuring
1570 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1572 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1577 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1578 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1579 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1580 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1581 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1582 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1584 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1585 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1586 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1587 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1588 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1589 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1590 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1592 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1593 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1594 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1595 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1597 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1599 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1603 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1604 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1605 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1606 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1607 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1609 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1610 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1611 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1612 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1614 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1615 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1616 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1617 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1618 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1619 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1620 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1621 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1622 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1623 offtopic stuff, too.
1624 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1625 script should start it, closes: #60979
1626 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1627 "should", closes: #170019
1628 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1629 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1630 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1631 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1632 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1633 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1634 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1635 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1638 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1640 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1644 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1645 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1646 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1647 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1648 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1649 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1650 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1651 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1653 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1654 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1655 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1656 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1657 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1658 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1659 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1660 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1661 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1663 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1664 file, closes: Bug#65764
1666 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1668 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1671 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1672 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1673 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1674 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1675 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1676 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1677 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1678 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1679 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1680 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1681 details. closes: Bug#133030
1682 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1683 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1684 parts of Bug#161455.
1686 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1688 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1691 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1692 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1693 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1694 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1695 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1696 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1697 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1698 not. closes: Bug#139820
1699 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1700 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1701 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1702 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1703 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1704 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1705 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1706 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1707 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1708 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1710 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1712 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1713 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1714 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1715 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1716 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1717 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1718 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1719 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1720 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1721 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1722 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1723 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1724 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1725 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1726 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1727 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1728 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1729 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1730 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1731 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1733 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1734 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1735 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1736 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1737 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1738 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1739 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1741 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1742 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1743 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1744 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1745 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1746 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1747 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1748 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1749 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1751 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1753 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1756 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1757 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1758 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1759 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1760 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1761 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1762 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1763 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1764 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1765 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1766 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1767 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1768 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1769 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1770 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1771 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1772 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1773 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1774 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1775 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1776 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1777 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1779 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1781 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1784 medium, high, emergency.
1785 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1786 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1787 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1788 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1789 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1792 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1793 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1794 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1796 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1797 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1798 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1799 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1800 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1801 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1802 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1805 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1807 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1810 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1811 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1812 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1814 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1815 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1816 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1817 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1818 debian/rules to do this
1819 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1820 patches are incorporated upstream
1821 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1822 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1823 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1824 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1825 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1826 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1828 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1829 system closes: Bug#91249
1830 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1831 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1832 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1833 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1834 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1835 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1836 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1837 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1838 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1839 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1840 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1841 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1842 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1844 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1846 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1849 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1850 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1851 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1853 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1854 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1855 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1857 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1860 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1862 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1865 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1866 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1867 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1868 package for the time being
1869 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1870 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1871 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1872 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1873 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1874 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1875 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1876 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1877 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1878 Build-Depends arch syntax
1879 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1881 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1882 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1884 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1885 from policy maintenance duties.
1886 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1887 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1889 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1891 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1895 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1897 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1900 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1901 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1902 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1903 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1904 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1905 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1906 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1907 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1908 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1909 minor version number for this
1910 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1911 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1912 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1913 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1914 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1915 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1916 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1917 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1918 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1920 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1922 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1925 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1926 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1927 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1928 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1930 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1932 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1933 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1934 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1935 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1936 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1937 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1938 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1939 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1940 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1941 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1942 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1943 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1944 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1945 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1946 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1947 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1950 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1952 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1955 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1957 * Document the Enhances relationship
1958 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1959 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1960 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1961 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1962 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1963 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1965 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1967 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1968 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1969 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1970 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1972 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1973 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1974 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1975 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1976 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1978 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1980 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1983 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1984 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1986 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1987 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1988 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1989 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1990 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1991 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1992 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1993 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1994 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1996 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1998 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2000 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2003 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2004 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2005 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2006 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2007 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2008 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2009 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2010 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2011 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2012 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2013 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2014 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2015 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2016 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2017 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2018 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2019 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2020 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2021 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2022 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2023 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2025 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2026 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2028 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2030 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2033 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2034 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2035 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2036 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2037 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2038 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2039 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2040 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2041 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2042 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2043 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2044 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2045 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2046 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2047 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2048 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2049 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2050 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2051 list closes: Bug#53756
2052 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2053 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2054 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2055 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2056 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2057 policy closes: Bug#53760
2058 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2059 policy closes: Bug#53761
2060 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2061 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2062 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2063 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2064 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2065 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2066 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2067 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2068 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2069 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2070 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2072 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2073 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2074 to install with older fileutils.
2075 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2076 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2077 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2078 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2080 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2081 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2083 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2085 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2088 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2090 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2092 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2095 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2097 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2100 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2103 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2105 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2107 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2109 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2112 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2114 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2116 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2119 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2120 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2121 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2122 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2123 directoried (closes: #41547)
2124 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2125 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2126 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2127 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2128 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2129 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2130 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2131 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2132 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2133 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2134 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2136 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2137 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2138 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2139 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2140 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2141 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2142 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2144 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2145 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2146 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2147 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2149 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2151 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2153 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2154 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2156 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2158 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2161 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2163 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2165 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2168 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2170 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2171 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2172 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2173 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2174 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2175 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2176 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2177 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2178 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2179 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2180 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2181 this closes: Bug#38612
2182 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2183 before. closes: Bug#40864
2185 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2187 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2190 officially uploaded.
2191 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2193 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2194 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2195 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2197 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2198 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2199 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2200 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2201 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2202 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2204 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2205 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2206 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2208 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2210 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2211 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2212 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2213 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2214 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2216 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2218 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2221 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2222 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2223 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2224 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2225 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2226 there). closes: Bug#34233
2227 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2228 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2229 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2230 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2231 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2233 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2235 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2238 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2239 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2240 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2243 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2244 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2245 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2246 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2247 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2250 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2251 number. closes: BUG#25911
2253 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2254 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2255 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2256 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2257 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2258 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2260 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2261 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2262 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2265 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2266 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2267 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2269 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2270 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2271 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2272 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2274 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2275 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2276 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2278 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2280 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2281 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2282 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2283 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2284 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2285 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2286 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2287 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2290 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2292 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2293 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2296 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2298 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2302 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2304 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2307 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2308 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2309 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2310 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2311 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2312 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2313 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2315 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2316 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2318 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2320 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2322 * non-maintainer release
2323 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2324 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2326 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2327 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2328 * no content changes
2329 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2331 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2333 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2337 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2339 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2343 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2344 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2345 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2347 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2348 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2350 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2351 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2352 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2353 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2355 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2356 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2357 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2358 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2359 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2360 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2361 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2363 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2364 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2365 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2368 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2369 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2370 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2372 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2373 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2374 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2376 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2377 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2379 * New version numbering scheme:
2381 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2382 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2383 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2386 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2387 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2388 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2389 differ between the manuals.
2391 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2392 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2393 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2394 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2396 * Packaging changes:
2398 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2399 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2401 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2403 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2405 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2409 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2410 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2411 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2413 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2414 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2417 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2418 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2419 file extension as the referenced file
2421 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2422 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2424 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2425 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2426 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2427 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2430 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2431 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2432 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2434 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2435 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2436 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2437 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2440 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2441 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2444 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2445 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2446 reasonable default configuration
2448 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2449 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2450 by all news servers and clients
2452 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2453 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2454 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2455 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2456 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2458 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2459 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2462 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2464 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2465 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2467 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2470 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2471 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2473 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2474 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2476 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2478 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2480 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2483 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2484 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2485 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2487 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2489 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2490 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2491 * Don't use debstd anymore
2493 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2495 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2498 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2499 contrib/non-free policy
2500 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2501 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2502 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2503 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2504 - new section about `Daemons'
2505 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2506 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2507 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2508 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2509 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2510 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2511 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2512 * SGML source code included in package
2513 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2515 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2517 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2520 - completely reworked structure
2521 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2522 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2523 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2524 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2525 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2526 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2527 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2528 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2529 - mention "orphaned packages"
2530 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2531 distributions' policy
2532 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2533 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2534 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2535 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2536 - added section about arch spec strings
2537 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2538 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2539 - added section about "menus"
2540 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2541 the new documentation policy soon
2542 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2543 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2545 - added section about editors and pagers
2546 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2547 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2548 - added section about device files
2549 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2550 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2551 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2553 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2554 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2555 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2556 - Added new section about obsolete names
2557 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2558 * Fixed package's description
2560 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2562 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2566 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2568 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2571 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2572 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2573 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2575 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2577 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2580 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2581 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2583 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2584 and upload it "byhand" too.
2586 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2588 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2592 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2593 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2594 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2595 functionality must not have the same name.
2596 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2597 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2598 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2599 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2600 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2601 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2602 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2604 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2605 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2606 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2607 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2608 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2609 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2610 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2611 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2614 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2616 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2618 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2620 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2621 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2622 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2623 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2624 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2627 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2629 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2631 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2633 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2634 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2635 description of deb file format.
2636 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2637 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2639 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2641 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2642 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2644 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2646 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2648 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2649 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2650 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2651 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2652 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2653 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2654 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2655 packages in section on Procedure
2656 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2657 a package maintainer
2658 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2659 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2660 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2662 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2663 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2664 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2665 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2666 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2667 on various shlib files
2668 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2669 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2670 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2672 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2674 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2676 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2677 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2678 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2680 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2681 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2682 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2683 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2684 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2686 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2688 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2690 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2692 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2694 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2695 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2696 compatibility go in contrib.
2698 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2699 instructions in policy manual.
2700 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2703 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2705 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2707 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2708 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2709 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2710 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2712 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2713 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2716 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2718 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2720 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2721 * More detail about changelog format names.
2723 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2724 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2728 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2730 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2732 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2734 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2736 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2738 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2740 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2742 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2743 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2744 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2746 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2748 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2750 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2752 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2754 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2758 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100