1 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
4 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
5 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
6 * Fix use of metasyntactic variable in [11.5.1] Web servers and applications
7 Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
8 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
9 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
11 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
13 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
14 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
20 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
21 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
25 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
26 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
30 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
31 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
35 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
36 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
38 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
40 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
41 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
45 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
48 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
49 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
50 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
51 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
53 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Fri, 30 May 2014 11:55:39 +0200
58 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
61 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
65 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
66 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
71 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
72 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
76 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
77 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
79 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
83 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
84 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
85 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
88 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
89 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
93 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
94 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
96 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
98 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
99 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
100 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
104 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
105 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
109 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
110 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
112 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
114 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
115 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
116 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
119 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
120 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
121 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
124 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
125 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
126 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
127 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
129 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
130 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
131 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
132 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
133 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
134 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
135 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
136 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
137 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
138 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
139 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
140 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
142 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
143 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
144 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
145 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
147 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
149 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
151 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
152 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
153 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
155 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
156 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
157 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
158 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
163 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
164 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
168 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
169 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
173 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
174 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
175 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
176 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
180 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
181 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
185 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
186 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
188 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
191 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
192 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
193 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
196 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
197 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
202 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
204 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
207 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
208 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
209 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
210 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
212 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
213 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
214 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
215 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
216 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
217 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
218 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
219 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
220 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
221 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
222 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
223 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
224 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
225 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
226 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
227 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
228 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
230 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
231 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
232 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
233 good to know which version one is looking at.
234 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
235 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
236 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
237 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
238 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
239 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
240 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
242 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
243 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
244 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
245 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
246 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
248 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
249 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
250 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
252 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
253 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
254 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
255 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
257 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
259 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
263 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
264 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
265 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
266 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
267 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
268 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
269 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
270 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
271 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
272 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
277 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
278 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
283 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
284 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
285 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
288 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
290 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
291 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
295 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
296 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
299 Closes: #620870, #532120
300 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
301 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
306 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
307 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
308 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
312 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
313 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
314 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
315 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
316 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
318 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
319 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
320 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
321 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
322 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
323 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
324 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
325 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
326 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
327 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
328 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
329 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
330 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
331 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
332 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
333 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
335 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
337 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
338 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
339 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
340 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
341 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
342 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
343 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
344 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
345 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
346 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
349 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
351 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
352 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
353 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
354 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
359 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
360 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
362 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
363 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
364 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
365 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
368 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
370 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
374 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
375 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
376 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
379 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
380 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
381 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
383 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
384 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
390 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
391 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
392 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
395 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
396 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
401 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
402 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
403 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
404 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
407 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
408 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
409 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
412 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
413 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
418 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
420 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
423 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
426 Closes: #459868, #581011
427 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
428 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
430 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
432 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
433 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
435 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
437 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
438 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
440 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
442 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
443 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
447 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
448 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
451 Closes: #501930, #593909
452 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
453 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
457 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
458 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
459 machine. (Closes: #591857)
460 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
461 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
462 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
463 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
464 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
465 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
466 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
467 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
468 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
469 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
471 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
472 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
473 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
474 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
475 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
476 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
477 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
478 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
479 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
480 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
481 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
482 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
483 than the version in oldstable.
484 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
485 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
486 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
487 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
488 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
489 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
490 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
491 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
492 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
493 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
494 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
495 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
496 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
497 package. (Closes: #609160)
499 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
501 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
504 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
505 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
509 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
510 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
512 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
514 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
515 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
516 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
517 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
519 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
520 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
522 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
524 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
525 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
529 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
530 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
534 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
535 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
539 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
540 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
542 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
544 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
545 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
547 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
549 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
550 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
551 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
555 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
556 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
561 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
562 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
566 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
567 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
571 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
572 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
576 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
577 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
581 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
582 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
586 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
587 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
591 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
593 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
594 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
595 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
596 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
597 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
598 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
599 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
600 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
601 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
603 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
604 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
605 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
606 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
607 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
608 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
610 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
612 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
618 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
621 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
622 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
623 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
624 and distribution license' (three times).
625 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
626 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
627 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
631 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
633 Proposed by Santiago Vila
634 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
641 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
642 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
643 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
646 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
647 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
648 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
649 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
651 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
653 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
654 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
655 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
658 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
659 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
660 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
662 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
664 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
665 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
668 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
670 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
671 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
672 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
674 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
676 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
677 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
678 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
679 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
681 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
682 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
683 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
684 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
685 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
687 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
688 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
689 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
690 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
692 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
693 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
694 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
695 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
697 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
698 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
699 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
703 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
704 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
705 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
706 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
708 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
709 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
714 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
715 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
719 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
720 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
721 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
722 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
723 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
724 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
725 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
726 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
727 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
728 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
729 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
730 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
731 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
732 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
733 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
734 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
735 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
736 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
737 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
738 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
739 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
740 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
741 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
742 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
743 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
744 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
745 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
746 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
747 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
748 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
749 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
750 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
752 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
754 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
756 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
760 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
762 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
763 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
767 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
770 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
771 Wording: Steve Langasek.
772 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
773 Seconded: Julien Cristau
774 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
777 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
778 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
779 Seconded: Russ Allbery
780 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
783 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
784 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
785 Seconded: Russ Allbery
787 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
788 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
789 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
790 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
791 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
792 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
793 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
794 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
795 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
797 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
798 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
799 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
800 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
801 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
802 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
803 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
804 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
805 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
806 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
807 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
808 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
809 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
810 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
811 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
812 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
814 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
815 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
816 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
817 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
818 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
820 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
823 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
824 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
825 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
826 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
827 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
828 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
831 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
833 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
836 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
837 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
838 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
840 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
841 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
842 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
843 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
845 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
846 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
847 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
848 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
850 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
851 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
852 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
853 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
854 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
855 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
857 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
858 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
859 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
860 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
861 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
863 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
864 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
865 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
866 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
868 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
869 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
870 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
871 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
873 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
874 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
875 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
876 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
878 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
879 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
880 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
881 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
883 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
884 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
885 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
888 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
889 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
890 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
891 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
892 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
893 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
894 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
895 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
896 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
897 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
898 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
899 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
900 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
901 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
902 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
904 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
905 Source field descriptions.
906 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
907 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
908 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
909 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
910 description says otherwise.
912 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
914 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
918 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
919 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
920 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
921 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
922 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
924 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
925 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
926 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
927 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
929 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
930 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
931 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
932 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
934 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
935 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
936 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
937 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
939 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
940 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
941 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
942 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
946 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
947 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
948 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
949 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
950 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
952 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
953 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
954 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
955 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
957 * Add myself to Uploaders.
960 * Add myself to Uploaders.
961 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
963 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
964 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
965 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
967 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
969 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
972 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
973 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
974 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
976 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
977 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
978 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
979 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
981 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
982 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
983 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
984 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
986 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
987 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
988 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
989 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
991 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
992 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
993 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
994 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
996 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
997 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
998 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
999 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1001 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1002 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1003 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1004 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1006 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1007 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1008 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1009 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1011 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1012 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1013 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1014 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1016 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1017 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1018 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1019 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1021 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1022 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1023 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1024 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1025 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1027 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1028 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1029 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1030 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1031 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1032 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1033 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1034 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1035 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1036 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1037 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1038 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1039 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1040 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1041 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1042 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1043 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1044 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1045 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1046 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1047 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1048 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1049 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1050 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1051 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1052 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1053 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1054 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1055 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1056 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1058 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1059 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1060 links was completed long ago.
1061 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1063 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1065 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1068 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1070 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1072 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1075 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1076 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1077 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1078 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1079 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1080 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1081 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1082 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1083 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1085 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1087 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1089 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1090 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1091 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1092 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1093 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1094 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1095 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1097 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1098 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1099 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1100 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1102 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1103 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1104 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1105 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1106 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1107 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1108 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1109 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1110 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1111 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1112 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1113 Closes: #186700, #458910
1114 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1115 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1116 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1118 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1119 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1120 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1121 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1122 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1123 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1124 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1125 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1127 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1128 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1130 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1131 * Add an md5sums control file.
1132 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1133 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1134 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1135 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1136 currently part of policy.
1137 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1138 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1139 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1142 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1144 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1147 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1148 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1149 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1150 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1151 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1152 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1153 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1154 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1155 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1156 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1157 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1158 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1159 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1160 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1161 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1163 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1165 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1166 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1167 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1169 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1170 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1171 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1172 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1173 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1174 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1175 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1176 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1177 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1178 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1179 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1180 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1181 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1182 debconf specification.
1183 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1184 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1186 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1188 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1191 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1192 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1193 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1194 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1196 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1198 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1199 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1200 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1201 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1202 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1204 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1205 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1206 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1207 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1208 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1209 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1210 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1211 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1212 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1213 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1214 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1215 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1216 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1217 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1218 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1219 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1221 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1224 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1225 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1226 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1227 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1228 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1229 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1230 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1232 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1234 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1237 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1238 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1239 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1240 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1241 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1242 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1244 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1245 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1246 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1247 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1248 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1249 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1250 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1251 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1252 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1253 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1255 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1256 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1257 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1258 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1259 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1260 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1262 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1264 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1267 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1268 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1269 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1271 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1272 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1274 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1276 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1279 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1280 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1281 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1282 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1283 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1284 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1285 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1286 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1287 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1289 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1290 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1291 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1292 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1293 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1294 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1296 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1297 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1298 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1299 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1302 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1304 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1307 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1308 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1309 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1310 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1311 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1312 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1313 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1314 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1315 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1316 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1317 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1318 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1319 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1320 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1321 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1322 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1323 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1324 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1325 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1326 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1327 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1328 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1329 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1330 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1331 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1332 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1333 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1335 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1336 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1337 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1338 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1339 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1340 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1341 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1342 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1343 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1344 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1345 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1346 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1347 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1348 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1349 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1350 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1352 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1353 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1355 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1356 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1357 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1358 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1359 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1360 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1361 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1362 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1363 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1364 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1365 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1367 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1369 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1373 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1374 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1375 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1376 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1377 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1378 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1379 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1380 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1381 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1382 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1383 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1384 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1386 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1387 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1388 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1389 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1390 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1391 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1392 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1393 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1394 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1395 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1396 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1397 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1398 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1399 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1400 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1401 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1402 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1403 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1404 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1407 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1409 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1412 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1413 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1414 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1416 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1417 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1418 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1419 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1421 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1423 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1427 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1428 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1429 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1430 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1431 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1432 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1433 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1434 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1435 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1437 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1438 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1439 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1441 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1442 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1443 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1444 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1445 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1446 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1447 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1449 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1450 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1451 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1452 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1454 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1455 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1456 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1457 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1458 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1459 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1460 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1461 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1463 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1464 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1465 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1466 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1467 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1468 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1469 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1470 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1471 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1472 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1473 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1474 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1475 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1476 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1477 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1478 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1479 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1481 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1483 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1487 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1488 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1489 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1490 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1491 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1492 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1493 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1494 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1496 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1497 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1498 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1499 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1500 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1501 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1502 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1503 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1504 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1505 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1506 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1507 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1508 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1509 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1510 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1511 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1512 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1514 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1515 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1516 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1519 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1520 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1521 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1523 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1524 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1525 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1526 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1527 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1528 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1530 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1531 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1533 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1534 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1535 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1536 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1537 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1538 Closes: #185943, #237049
1540 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1542 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1548 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1549 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1550 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1551 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1552 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1553 running. closes: Bug#187250
1554 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1555 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1556 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1557 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1558 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1559 user closes: Bug#176506
1561 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1563 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1567 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1568 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1569 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1570 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1571 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1572 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1573 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1574 deb-building toolchain.
1575 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1576 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1577 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1578 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1579 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1580 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1581 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1582 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1583 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1584 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1585 sections about changelog files.
1587 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1588 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1589 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1590 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1591 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1592 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1594 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1595 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1596 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1597 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1598 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1599 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1600 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1601 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1602 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1603 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1604 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1605 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1606 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1607 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1608 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1609 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1610 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1611 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1612 for the restructuring
1614 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1616 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1621 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1622 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1623 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1624 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1625 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1626 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1628 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1629 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1630 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1631 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1632 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1633 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1634 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1636 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1637 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1638 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1639 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1641 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1643 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1647 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1648 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1649 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1650 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1651 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1653 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1654 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1655 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1656 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1658 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1659 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1660 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1661 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1662 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1663 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1664 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1665 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1666 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1667 offtopic stuff, too.
1668 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1669 script should start it, closes: #60979
1670 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1671 "should", closes: #170019
1672 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1673 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1674 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1675 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1676 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1677 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1678 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1679 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1682 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1684 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1688 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1689 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1690 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1691 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1692 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1693 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1694 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1695 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1697 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1698 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1699 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1700 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1701 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1702 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1703 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1704 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1705 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1707 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1708 file, closes: Bug#65764
1710 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1712 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1715 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1716 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1717 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1718 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1719 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1720 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1721 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1722 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1723 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1724 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1725 details. closes: Bug#133030
1726 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1727 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1728 parts of Bug#161455.
1730 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1732 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1735 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1736 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1737 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1738 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1739 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1740 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1741 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1742 not. closes: Bug#139820
1743 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1744 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1745 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1746 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1747 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1748 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1749 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1750 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1751 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1752 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1754 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1756 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1757 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1758 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1759 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1760 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1761 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1762 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1763 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1764 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1765 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1766 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1767 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1768 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1769 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1770 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1771 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1772 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1773 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1774 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1775 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1777 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1778 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1779 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1780 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1781 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1782 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1783 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1785 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1786 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1787 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1788 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1789 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1790 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1791 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1792 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1793 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1795 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1797 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1800 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1801 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1802 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1803 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1804 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1805 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1806 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1807 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1808 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1809 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1810 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1811 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1812 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1813 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1814 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1815 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1816 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1817 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1818 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1819 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1820 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1821 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1823 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1825 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1828 medium, high, emergency.
1829 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1830 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1831 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1832 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1833 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1836 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1837 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1838 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1840 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1841 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1842 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1843 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1844 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1845 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1846 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1849 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1851 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1854 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1855 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1856 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1858 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1859 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1860 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1861 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1862 debian/rules to do this
1863 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1864 patches are incorporated upstream
1865 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1866 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1867 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1868 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1869 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1870 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1872 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1873 system closes: Bug#91249
1874 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1875 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1876 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1877 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1878 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1879 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1880 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1881 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1882 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1883 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1884 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1885 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1886 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1888 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1890 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1893 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1894 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1895 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1897 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1898 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1899 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1901 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1904 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1906 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1909 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1910 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1911 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1912 package for the time being
1913 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1914 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1915 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1916 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1917 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1918 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1919 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1920 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1921 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1922 Build-Depends arch syntax
1923 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1925 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1926 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1928 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1929 from policy maintenance duties.
1930 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1931 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1933 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1935 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1939 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1941 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1944 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1945 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1946 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1947 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1948 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1949 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1950 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1951 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1952 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1953 minor version number for this
1954 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1955 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1956 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1957 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1958 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1959 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1960 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1961 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1962 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1964 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1966 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1969 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1970 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1971 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1972 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1974 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1976 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1977 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1978 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1979 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1980 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1981 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1982 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1983 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1984 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1985 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1986 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1987 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1988 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1989 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1990 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1991 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1994 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1996 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1999 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2001 * Document the Enhances relationship
2002 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2003 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2004 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2005 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2006 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2007 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2009 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2011 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2012 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2013 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2014 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2016 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2017 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2018 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2019 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2020 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2022 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2024 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2027 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2028 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2030 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2031 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2032 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2033 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2034 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2035 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2036 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2037 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2038 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2040 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2042 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2044 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2047 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2048 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2049 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2050 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2051 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2052 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2053 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2054 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2055 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2056 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2057 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2058 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2059 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2060 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2061 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2062 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2063 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2064 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2065 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2066 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2067 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2069 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2070 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2072 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2074 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2077 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2078 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2079 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2080 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2081 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2082 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2083 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2084 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2085 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2086 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2087 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2088 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2089 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2090 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2091 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2092 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2093 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2094 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2095 list closes: Bug#53756
2096 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2097 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2098 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2099 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2100 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2101 policy closes: Bug#53760
2102 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2103 policy closes: Bug#53761
2104 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2105 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2106 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2107 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2108 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2109 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2110 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2111 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2112 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2113 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2114 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2116 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2117 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2118 to install with older fileutils.
2119 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2120 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2121 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2122 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2124 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2125 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2127 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2129 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2132 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2134 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2136 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2139 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2141 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2144 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2147 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2149 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2151 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2153 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2156 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2158 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2160 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2163 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2164 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2165 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2166 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2167 directoried (closes: #41547)
2168 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2169 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2170 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2171 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2172 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2173 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2174 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2175 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2176 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2177 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2178 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2180 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2181 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2182 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2183 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2184 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2185 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2186 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2188 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2189 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2190 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2191 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2193 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2195 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2197 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2198 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2200 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2202 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2205 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2207 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2209 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2212 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2214 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2215 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2216 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2217 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2218 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2219 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2220 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2221 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2222 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2223 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2224 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2225 this closes: Bug#38612
2226 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2227 before. closes: Bug#40864
2229 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2231 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2234 officially uploaded.
2235 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2237 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2238 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2239 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2241 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2242 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2243 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2244 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2245 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2246 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2248 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2249 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2250 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2252 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2254 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2255 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2256 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2257 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2258 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2260 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2262 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2265 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2266 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2267 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2268 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2269 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2270 there). closes: Bug#34233
2271 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2272 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2273 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2274 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2275 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2277 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2279 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2282 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2283 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2284 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2287 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2288 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2289 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2290 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2291 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2294 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2295 number. closes: BUG#25911
2297 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2298 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2299 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2300 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2301 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2302 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2304 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2305 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2306 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2309 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2310 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2311 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2313 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2314 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2315 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2316 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2318 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2319 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2320 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2322 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2324 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2325 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2326 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2327 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2328 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2329 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2330 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2331 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2334 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2336 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2337 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2340 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2342 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2346 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2348 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2351 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2352 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2353 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2354 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2355 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2356 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2357 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2359 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2360 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2362 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2364 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2366 * non-maintainer release
2367 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2368 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2370 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2371 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2372 * no content changes
2373 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2375 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2377 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2381 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2383 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2387 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2388 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2389 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2391 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2392 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2394 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2395 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2396 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2397 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2399 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2400 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2401 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2402 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2403 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2404 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2405 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2407 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2408 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2409 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2412 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2413 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2414 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2416 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2417 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2418 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2420 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2421 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2423 * New version numbering scheme:
2425 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2426 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2427 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2430 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2431 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2432 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2433 differ between the manuals.
2435 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2436 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2437 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2438 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2440 * Packaging changes:
2442 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2443 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2445 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2447 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2449 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2453 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2454 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2455 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2457 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2458 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2461 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2462 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2463 file extension as the referenced file
2465 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2466 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2468 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2469 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2470 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2471 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2474 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2475 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2476 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2478 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2479 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2480 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2481 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2484 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2485 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2488 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2489 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2490 reasonable default configuration
2492 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2493 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2494 by all news servers and clients
2496 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2497 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2498 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2499 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2500 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2502 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2503 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2506 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2508 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2509 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2511 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2514 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2515 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2517 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2518 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2520 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2522 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2524 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2527 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2528 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2529 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2531 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2533 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2534 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2535 * Don't use debstd anymore
2537 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2539 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2542 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2543 contrib/non-free policy
2544 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2545 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2546 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2547 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2548 - new section about `Daemons'
2549 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2550 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2551 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2552 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2553 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2554 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2555 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2556 * SGML source code included in package
2557 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2559 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2561 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2564 - completely reworked structure
2565 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2566 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2567 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2568 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2569 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2570 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2571 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2572 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2573 - mention "orphaned packages"
2574 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2575 distributions' policy
2576 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2577 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2578 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2579 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2580 - added section about arch spec strings
2581 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2582 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2583 - added section about "menus"
2584 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2585 the new documentation policy soon
2586 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2587 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2589 - added section about editors and pagers
2590 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2591 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2592 - added section about device files
2593 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2594 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2595 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2597 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2598 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2599 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2600 - Added new section about obsolete names
2601 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2602 * Fixed package's description
2604 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2606 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2610 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2612 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2615 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2616 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2617 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2619 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2621 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2624 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2625 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2627 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2628 and upload it "byhand" too.
2630 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2632 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2636 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2637 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2638 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2639 functionality must not have the same name.
2640 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2641 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2642 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2643 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2644 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2645 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2646 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2648 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2649 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2650 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2651 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2652 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2653 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2654 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2655 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2658 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2660 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2662 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2664 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2665 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2666 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2667 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2668 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2671 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2673 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2675 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2677 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2678 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2679 description of deb file format.
2680 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2681 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2683 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2685 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2686 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2688 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2690 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2692 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2693 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2694 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2695 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2696 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2697 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2698 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2699 packages in section on Procedure
2700 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2701 a package maintainer
2702 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2703 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2704 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2706 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2707 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2708 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2709 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2710 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2711 on various shlib files
2712 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2713 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2714 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2716 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2718 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2720 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2721 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2722 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2724 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2725 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2726 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2727 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2728 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2730 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2732 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2734 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2736 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2738 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2739 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2740 compatibility go in contrib.
2742 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2743 instructions in policy manual.
2744 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2747 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2749 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2751 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2752 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2753 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2754 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2756 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2757 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2760 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2762 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2764 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2765 * More detail about changelog format names.
2767 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2768 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2772 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2774 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2776 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2778 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2780 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2782 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2784 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2786 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2787 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2788 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2790 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2792 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2794 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2796 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2798 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2802 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100