1 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
4 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
5 * Fix use of metasyntactic variable in [11.5.1] Web servers and applications
6 Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
7 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
8 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
9 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
10 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
13 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:08:18 +0100
15 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
18 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
22 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
23 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
28 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
29 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
33 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
34 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
35 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
36 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
40 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
41 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
42 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
45 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
46 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
50 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
51 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
53 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
55 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
56 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
57 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
61 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
62 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
66 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
67 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
69 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
71 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
72 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
73 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
76 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
77 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
78 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
81 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
82 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
83 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
84 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
86 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
87 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
88 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
89 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
90 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
91 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
92 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
93 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
94 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
95 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
96 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
97 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
99 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
100 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
101 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
102 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
104 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
106 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
108 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
109 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
110 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
112 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
113 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
114 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
115 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
120 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
121 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
126 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
130 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
131 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
132 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
133 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
137 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
138 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
142 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
143 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
144 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
145 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
148 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
149 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
150 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
153 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
154 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
159 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
161 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
164 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
165 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
166 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
167 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
169 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
170 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
171 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
172 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
173 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
174 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
175 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
176 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
177 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
178 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
179 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
180 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
181 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
182 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
183 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
184 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
185 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
187 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
188 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
189 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
190 good to know which version one is looking at.
191 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
192 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
193 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
194 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
195 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
196 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
197 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
199 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
200 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
201 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
202 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
203 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
205 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
206 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
207 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
209 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
210 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
211 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
212 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
214 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
216 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
220 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
221 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
222 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
223 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
224 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
225 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
226 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
227 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
228 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
229 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
234 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
235 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
240 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
241 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
242 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
245 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
247 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
248 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
252 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
253 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
256 Closes: #620870, #532120
257 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
258 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
263 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
264 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
265 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
269 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
270 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
271 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
272 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
273 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
275 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
276 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
277 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
278 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
279 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
280 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
281 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
282 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
283 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
284 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
285 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
286 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
287 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
288 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
289 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
290 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
292 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
294 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
295 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
296 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
297 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
298 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
299 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
300 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
301 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
302 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
303 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
306 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
308 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
309 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
310 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
311 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
316 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
317 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
319 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
320 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
321 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
322 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
325 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
327 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
331 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
332 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
333 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
336 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
337 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
338 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
340 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
341 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
347 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
348 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
349 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
352 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
353 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
358 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
359 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
360 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
361 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
364 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
365 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
366 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
369 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
370 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
375 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
377 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
380 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
383 Closes: #459868, #581011
384 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
385 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
387 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
389 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
390 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
392 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
394 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
395 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
397 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
399 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
400 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
404 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
405 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
408 Closes: #501930, #593909
409 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
410 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
414 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
415 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
416 machine. (Closes: #591857)
417 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
418 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
419 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
420 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
421 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
422 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
423 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
424 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
425 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
426 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
428 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
429 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
430 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
431 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
432 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
433 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
434 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
435 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
436 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
437 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
438 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
439 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
440 than the version in oldstable.
441 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
442 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
443 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
444 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
445 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
446 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
447 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
448 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
449 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
450 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
451 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
452 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
453 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
454 package. (Closes: #609160)
456 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
458 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
461 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
462 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
466 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
467 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
471 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
472 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
476 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
477 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
478 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
481 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
482 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
486 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
487 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
491 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
492 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
496 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
497 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
499 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
501 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
502 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
504 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
506 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
507 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
512 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
513 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
516 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
518 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
519 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
523 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
524 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
528 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
529 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
533 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
534 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
538 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
539 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
543 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
544 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
548 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
550 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
551 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
552 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
553 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
554 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
555 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
556 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
557 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
558 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
560 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
561 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
562 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
563 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
564 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
565 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
567 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
569 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
575 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
578 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
579 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
580 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
581 and distribution license' (three times).
582 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
583 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
588 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
590 Proposed by Santiago Vila
591 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
598 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
599 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
603 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
604 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
605 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
606 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
608 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
610 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
611 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
615 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
616 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
618 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
619 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
621 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
622 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
625 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
627 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
628 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
631 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
633 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
634 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
635 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
638 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
639 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
644 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
645 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
647 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
649 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
650 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
654 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
655 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
656 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
660 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
661 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
662 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
665 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
666 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
669 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
671 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
672 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
674 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
676 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
677 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
678 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
679 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
680 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
681 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
682 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
683 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
684 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
685 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
686 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
687 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
688 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
689 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
690 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
691 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
692 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
693 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
694 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
695 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
696 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
697 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
698 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
699 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
700 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
701 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
702 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
703 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
704 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
705 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
706 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
707 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
709 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
711 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
713 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
717 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
719 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
720 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
724 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
727 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
728 Wording: Steve Langasek.
729 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
730 Seconded: Julien Cristau
731 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
734 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
735 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
736 Seconded: Russ Allbery
737 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
740 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
741 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
742 Seconded: Russ Allbery
744 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
745 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
746 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
747 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
748 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
749 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
750 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
751 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
754 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
755 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
756 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
757 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
758 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
759 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
760 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
762 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
763 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
764 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
765 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
766 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
767 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
768 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
769 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
771 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
772 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
773 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
774 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
775 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
777 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
780 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
781 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
782 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
784 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
785 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
788 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
790 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
793 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
795 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
797 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
798 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
799 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
800 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
802 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
803 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
804 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
805 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
807 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
808 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
809 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
810 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
811 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
812 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
814 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
815 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
816 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
817 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
818 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
820 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
821 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
822 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
823 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
825 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
826 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
827 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
828 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
830 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
831 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
832 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
833 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
835 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
836 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
837 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
838 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
840 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
841 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
842 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
843 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
845 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
846 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
847 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
848 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
849 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
850 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
851 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
852 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
853 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
854 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
855 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
856 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
857 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
858 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
859 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
861 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
862 Source field descriptions.
863 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
864 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
865 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
866 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
867 description says otherwise.
869 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
871 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
875 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
876 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
877 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
878 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
879 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
881 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
882 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
883 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
884 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
886 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
887 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
888 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
889 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
891 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
892 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
893 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
894 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
896 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
897 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
898 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
899 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
903 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
904 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
905 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
906 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
907 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
909 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
910 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
911 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
912 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
914 * Add myself to Uploaders.
917 * Add myself to Uploaders.
918 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
920 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
921 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
922 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
924 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
926 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
929 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
930 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
931 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
933 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
934 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
935 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
936 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
938 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
939 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
940 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
941 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
943 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
944 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
945 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
946 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
948 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
949 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
950 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
951 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
953 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
954 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
955 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
956 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
958 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
959 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
960 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
961 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
963 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
964 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
965 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
966 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
968 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
969 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
970 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
971 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
973 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
974 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
975 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
976 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
978 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
979 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
980 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
981 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
982 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
984 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
985 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
986 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
987 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
988 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
989 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
990 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
991 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
992 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
993 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
994 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
995 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
996 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
997 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
998 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
999 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1000 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1001 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1002 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1003 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1004 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1005 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1006 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1007 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1008 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1009 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1010 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1011 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1012 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1013 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1015 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1016 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1017 links was completed long ago.
1018 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1020 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1022 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1025 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1027 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1029 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1032 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1033 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1034 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1035 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1036 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1037 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1038 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1039 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1040 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1042 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1044 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1046 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1047 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1048 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1049 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1050 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1051 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1052 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1054 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1055 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1056 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1057 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1059 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1060 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1061 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1062 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1063 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1064 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1065 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1066 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1067 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1068 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1069 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1070 Closes: #186700, #458910
1071 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1072 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1073 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1075 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1076 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1077 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1078 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1079 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1080 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1081 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1082 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1084 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1085 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1087 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1088 * Add an md5sums control file.
1089 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1090 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1091 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1092 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1093 currently part of policy.
1094 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1095 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1096 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1099 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1101 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1104 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1105 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1106 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1107 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1108 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1109 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1110 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1111 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1112 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1114 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1115 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1116 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1117 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1118 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1120 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1122 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1123 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1124 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1126 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1127 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1128 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1129 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1130 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1131 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1132 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1133 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1134 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1135 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1136 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1137 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1138 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1139 debconf specification.
1140 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1141 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1143 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1145 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1148 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1149 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1150 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1151 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1153 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1155 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1156 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1157 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1158 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1159 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1161 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1162 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1163 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1164 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1165 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1166 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1167 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1168 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1169 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1170 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1171 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1172 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1173 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1174 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1175 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1176 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1178 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1180 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1181 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1182 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1183 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1184 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1185 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1186 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1187 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1189 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1191 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1194 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1195 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1196 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1197 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1198 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1199 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1201 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1202 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1203 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1204 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1205 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1206 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1207 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1208 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1209 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1210 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1212 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1213 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1214 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1215 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1216 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1217 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1219 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1221 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1224 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1225 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1226 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1228 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1229 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1231 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1233 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1236 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1237 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1238 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1239 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1240 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1241 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1242 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1243 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1244 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1246 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1247 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1248 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1249 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1250 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1251 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1252 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1253 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1254 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1255 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1256 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1259 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1261 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1264 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1266 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1267 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1268 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1269 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1270 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1271 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1272 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1273 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1274 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1275 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1276 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1277 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1278 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1279 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1280 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1281 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1282 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1284 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1285 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1286 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1287 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1288 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1289 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1290 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1292 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1293 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1294 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1295 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1296 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1297 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1298 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1299 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1300 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1301 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1302 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1303 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1304 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1305 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1306 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1307 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1309 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1310 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1312 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1313 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1314 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1315 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1316 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1317 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1318 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1319 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1320 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1321 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1322 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1324 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1326 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1330 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1331 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1332 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1334 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1335 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1336 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1337 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1338 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1339 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1340 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1341 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1343 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1344 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1345 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1346 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1347 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1348 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1349 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1350 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1351 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1352 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1353 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1354 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1355 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1356 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1357 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1358 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1359 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1360 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1361 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1364 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1366 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1369 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1370 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1371 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1373 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1374 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1375 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1376 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1378 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1380 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1384 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1385 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1386 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1387 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1388 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1389 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1390 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1391 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1392 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1394 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1395 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1396 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1398 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1399 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1400 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1401 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1402 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1403 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1404 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1406 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1407 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1408 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1409 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1411 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1412 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1413 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1414 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1415 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1416 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1417 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1418 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1420 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1421 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1422 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1423 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1424 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1425 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1426 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1427 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1428 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1429 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1430 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1431 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1432 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1433 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1434 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1435 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1436 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1438 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1440 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1444 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1445 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1446 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1447 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1448 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1449 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1450 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1451 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1453 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1454 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1455 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1456 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1457 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1458 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1459 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1460 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1461 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1462 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1463 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1464 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1465 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1466 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1467 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1468 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1469 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1471 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1472 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1473 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1476 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1477 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1478 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1480 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1481 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1482 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1483 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1484 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1485 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1487 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1488 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1490 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1491 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1492 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1493 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1494 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1495 Closes: #185943, #237049
1497 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1499 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1505 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1506 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1507 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1508 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1509 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1510 running. closes: Bug#187250
1511 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1512 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1513 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1514 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1515 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1516 user closes: Bug#176506
1518 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1520 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1524 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1525 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1526 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1527 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1528 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1529 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1530 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1531 deb-building toolchain.
1532 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1533 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1534 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1535 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1536 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1537 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1538 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1539 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1540 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1541 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1542 sections about changelog files.
1544 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1545 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1546 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1547 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1548 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1549 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1551 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1552 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1553 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1554 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1555 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1556 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1557 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1558 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1559 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1560 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1561 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1562 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1563 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1564 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1565 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1566 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1567 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1568 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1569 for the restructuring
1571 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1573 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1578 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1579 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1580 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1581 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1582 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1583 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1585 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1586 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1587 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1588 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1589 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1590 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1591 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1593 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1594 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1595 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1596 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1598 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1600 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1604 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1605 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1606 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1607 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1608 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1610 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1611 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1612 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1613 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1615 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1616 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1617 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1618 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1619 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1620 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1621 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1622 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1623 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1624 offtopic stuff, too.
1625 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1626 script should start it, closes: #60979
1627 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1628 "should", closes: #170019
1629 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1630 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1631 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1632 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1633 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1634 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1635 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1636 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1639 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1641 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1645 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1646 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1647 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1648 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1649 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1650 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1651 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1652 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1654 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1655 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1656 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1657 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1658 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1659 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1660 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1661 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1662 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1664 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1665 file, closes: Bug#65764
1667 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1669 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1672 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1673 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1674 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1675 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1676 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1677 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1678 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1679 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1680 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1681 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1682 details. closes: Bug#133030
1683 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1684 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1685 parts of Bug#161455.
1687 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1689 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1692 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1693 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1694 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1695 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1696 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1697 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1698 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1699 not. closes: Bug#139820
1700 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1701 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1702 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1703 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1704 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1705 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1706 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1707 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1708 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1709 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1711 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1713 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1714 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1715 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1716 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1717 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1718 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1719 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1720 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1721 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1722 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1723 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1724 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1725 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1726 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1727 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1728 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1729 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1730 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1731 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1732 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1734 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1735 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1736 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1737 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1738 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1739 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1740 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1742 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1743 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1744 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1745 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1746 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1747 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1748 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1749 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1750 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1752 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1754 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1757 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1758 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1759 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1760 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1761 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1762 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1763 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1764 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1765 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1766 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1767 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1768 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1769 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1770 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1771 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1772 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1773 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1774 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1775 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1776 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1777 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1778 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1780 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1782 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1785 medium, high, emergency.
1786 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1787 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1788 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1789 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1790 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1793 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1794 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1795 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1797 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1798 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1799 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1800 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1801 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1802 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1803 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1806 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1808 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1811 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1812 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1813 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1815 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1816 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1817 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1818 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1819 debian/rules to do this
1820 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1821 patches are incorporated upstream
1822 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1823 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1824 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1825 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1826 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1827 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1829 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1830 system closes: Bug#91249
1831 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1832 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1833 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1834 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1835 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1836 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1837 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1838 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1839 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1840 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1841 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1842 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1843 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1845 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1847 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1850 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1851 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1852 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1854 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1855 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1856 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1858 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1861 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1863 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1866 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1867 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1868 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1869 package for the time being
1870 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1871 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1872 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1873 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1874 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1875 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1876 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1877 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1878 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1879 Build-Depends arch syntax
1880 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1882 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1883 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1885 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1886 from policy maintenance duties.
1887 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1888 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1890 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1892 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1896 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1898 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1901 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1902 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1903 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1904 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1905 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1906 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1907 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1908 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1909 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1910 minor version number for this
1911 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1912 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1913 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1914 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1915 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1916 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1917 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1918 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1919 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1921 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1923 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1926 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1927 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1928 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1929 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1931 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1933 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1934 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1935 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1936 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1937 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1938 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1939 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1940 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1941 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1942 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1943 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1944 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1945 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1946 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1947 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1948 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1951 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1953 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1956 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1958 * Document the Enhances relationship
1959 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1960 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1961 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1962 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1963 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1964 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1966 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1968 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1969 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1970 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1971 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1973 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1974 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1975 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1976 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1977 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1979 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1981 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1984 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1985 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1987 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1988 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1989 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1990 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1991 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1992 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1993 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1994 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1995 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1997 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1999 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2001 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2004 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2005 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2006 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2007 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2008 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2009 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2010 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2011 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2012 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2013 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2014 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2015 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2016 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2017 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2018 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2019 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2020 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2021 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2022 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2023 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2024 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2026 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2027 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2029 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2031 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2034 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2035 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2036 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2037 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2038 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2039 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2040 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2041 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2042 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2043 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2044 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2045 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2046 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2047 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2048 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2049 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2050 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2051 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2052 list closes: Bug#53756
2053 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2054 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2055 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2056 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2057 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2058 policy closes: Bug#53760
2059 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2060 policy closes: Bug#53761
2061 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2062 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2063 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2064 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2065 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2066 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2067 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2068 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2069 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2070 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2071 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2073 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2074 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2075 to install with older fileutils.
2076 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2077 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2078 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2079 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2081 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2082 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2084 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2086 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2089 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2091 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2093 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2096 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2098 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2101 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2104 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2106 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2108 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2110 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2113 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2115 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2117 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2120 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2121 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2122 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2123 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2124 directoried (closes: #41547)
2125 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2126 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2127 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2128 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2129 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2130 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2131 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2132 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2133 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2134 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2135 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2137 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2138 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2139 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2140 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2141 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2142 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2143 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2145 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2146 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2147 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2148 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2150 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2152 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2154 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2155 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2157 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2159 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2162 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2164 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2166 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2169 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2171 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2172 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2173 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2174 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2175 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2176 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2177 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2178 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2179 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2180 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2181 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2182 this closes: Bug#38612
2183 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2184 before. closes: Bug#40864
2186 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2188 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2191 officially uploaded.
2192 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2194 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2195 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2196 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2198 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2199 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2200 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2201 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2202 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2203 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2205 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2206 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2207 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2209 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2211 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2212 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2213 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2214 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2215 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2217 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2219 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2222 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2223 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2224 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2225 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2226 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2227 there). closes: Bug#34233
2228 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2229 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2230 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2231 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2232 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2234 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2236 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2239 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2240 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2241 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2244 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2245 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2246 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2247 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2248 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2251 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2252 number. closes: BUG#25911
2254 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2255 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2256 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2257 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2258 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2259 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2261 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2262 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2263 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2266 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2267 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2268 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2270 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2271 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2272 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2273 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2275 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2276 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2277 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2279 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2281 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2282 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2283 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2284 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2285 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2286 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2287 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2288 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2291 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2293 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2294 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2297 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2299 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2303 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2305 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2308 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2309 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2310 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2311 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2312 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2313 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2314 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2316 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2317 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2319 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2321 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2323 * non-maintainer release
2324 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2325 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2327 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2328 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2329 * no content changes
2330 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2332 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2334 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2338 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2340 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2344 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2345 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2346 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2348 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2349 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2351 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2352 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2353 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2354 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2356 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2357 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2358 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2359 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2360 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2361 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2362 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2364 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2365 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2366 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2369 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2370 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2371 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2373 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2374 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2375 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2377 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2378 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2380 * New version numbering scheme:
2382 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2383 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2384 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2387 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2388 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2389 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2390 differ between the manuals.
2392 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2393 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2394 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2395 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2397 * Packaging changes:
2399 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2400 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2402 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2404 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2406 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2410 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2411 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2412 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2414 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2415 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2418 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2419 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2420 file extension as the referenced file
2422 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2423 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2425 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2426 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2427 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2428 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2431 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2432 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2433 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2435 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2436 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2437 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2438 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2441 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2442 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2445 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2446 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2447 reasonable default configuration
2449 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2450 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2451 by all news servers and clients
2453 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2454 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2455 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2456 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2457 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2459 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2460 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2463 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2465 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2466 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2468 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2471 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2472 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2474 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2475 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2477 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2479 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2481 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2484 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2485 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2486 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2488 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2490 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2491 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2492 * Don't use debstd anymore
2494 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2496 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2499 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2500 contrib/non-free policy
2501 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2502 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2503 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2504 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2505 - new section about `Daemons'
2506 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2507 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2508 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2509 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2510 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2511 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2512 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2513 * SGML source code included in package
2514 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2516 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2518 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2521 - completely reworked structure
2522 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2523 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2524 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2525 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2526 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2527 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2528 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2529 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2530 - mention "orphaned packages"
2531 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2532 distributions' policy
2533 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2534 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2535 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2536 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2537 - added section about arch spec strings
2538 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2539 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2540 - added section about "menus"
2541 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2542 the new documentation policy soon
2543 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2544 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2546 - added section about editors and pagers
2547 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2548 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2549 - added section about device files
2550 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2551 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2552 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2554 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2555 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2556 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2557 - Added new section about obsolete names
2558 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2559 * Fixed package's description
2561 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2563 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2567 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2569 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2572 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2573 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2574 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2576 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2578 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2581 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2582 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2584 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2585 and upload it "byhand" too.
2587 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2589 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2593 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2594 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2595 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2596 functionality must not have the same name.
2597 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2598 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2599 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2600 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2601 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2602 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2603 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2605 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2606 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2607 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2608 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2609 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2610 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2611 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2612 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2615 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2617 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2619 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2621 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2622 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2623 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2624 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2625 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2628 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2630 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2632 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2634 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2635 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2636 description of deb file format.
2637 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2638 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2640 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2642 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2643 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2645 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2647 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2649 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2650 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2651 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2652 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2653 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2654 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2655 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2656 packages in section on Procedure
2657 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2658 a package maintainer
2659 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2660 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2661 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2663 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2664 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2665 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2666 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2667 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2668 on various shlib files
2669 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2670 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2671 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2673 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2675 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2677 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2678 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2679 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2681 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2682 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2683 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2684 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2685 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2687 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2689 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2691 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2693 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2695 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2696 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2697 compatibility go in contrib.
2699 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2700 instructions in policy manual.
2701 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2704 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2706 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2708 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2709 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2710 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2711 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2713 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2714 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2717 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2719 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2721 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2722 * More detail about changelog format names.
2724 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2725 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2729 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2731 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2733 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2735 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2737 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2739 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2741 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2743 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2744 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2745 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2747 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2749 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2751 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2753 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2755 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2759 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100