1 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
7 Closes: #459868, #581011
8 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
9 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
11 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:47:47 -0700
13 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
16 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
17 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
21 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
22 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
26 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
27 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
31 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
32 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
36 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
37 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
41 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
42 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
46 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
47 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
51 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
52 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
54 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
56 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
57 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
59 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
61 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
62 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
67 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
68 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
73 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
74 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
78 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
79 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
83 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
84 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
88 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
89 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
93 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
94 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
98 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
99 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
103 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
105 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
106 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
107 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
108 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
109 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
110 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
111 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
112 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
113 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
115 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
116 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
117 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
118 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
119 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
120 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
122 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
124 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
130 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
133 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
134 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
135 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
136 and distribution license' (three times).
137 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
138 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
143 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
145 Proposed by Santiago Vila
146 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
153 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
154 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
158 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
159 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
160 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
163 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
165 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
166 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
170 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
171 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
174 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
176 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
177 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
180 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
182 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
183 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
186 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
188 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
189 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
190 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
193 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
194 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
199 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
200 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
204 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
205 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
209 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
210 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
215 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
216 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
217 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
220 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
221 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
226 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
227 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
231 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
232 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
233 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
234 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
235 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
236 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
237 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
238 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
239 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
240 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
241 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
242 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
243 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
244 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
245 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
246 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
247 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
248 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
249 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
250 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
251 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
252 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
253 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
254 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
255 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
256 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
257 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
258 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
259 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
260 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
261 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
262 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
264 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
266 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
268 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
272 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
274 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
275 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
279 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
282 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
283 Wording: Steve Langasek.
284 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
285 Seconded: Julien Cristau
286 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
289 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
290 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
291 Seconded: Russ Allbery
292 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
295 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
296 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
297 Seconded: Russ Allbery
299 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
300 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
301 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
302 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
303 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
304 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
305 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
306 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
309 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
310 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
311 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
312 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
313 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
314 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
315 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
317 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
318 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
319 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
320 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
321 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
322 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
323 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
326 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
327 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
328 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
329 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
330 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
332 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
335 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
336 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
339 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
340 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
343 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
345 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
348 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
352 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
353 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
357 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
358 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
362 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
363 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
366 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
367 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
369 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
370 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
375 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
376 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
380 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
381 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
385 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
386 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
390 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
391 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
395 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
396 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
400 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
401 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
402 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
403 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
404 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
405 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
406 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
407 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
408 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
409 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
410 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
411 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
412 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
413 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
414 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
416 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
417 Source field descriptions.
418 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
419 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
420 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
421 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
422 description says otherwise.
424 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
426 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
430 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
433 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
434 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
436 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
437 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
438 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
441 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
442 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
446 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
447 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
451 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
452 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
453 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
454 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
458 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
459 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
460 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
461 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
462 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
464 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
465 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
469 * Add myself to Uploaders.
472 * Add myself to Uploaders.
473 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
475 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
476 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
477 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
479 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
481 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
484 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
488 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
489 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
491 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
493 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
494 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
495 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
498 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
499 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
500 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
501 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
503 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
504 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
508 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
509 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
513 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
514 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
516 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
518 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
519 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
521 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
523 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
524 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
525 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
528 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
529 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
533 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
534 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
537 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
539 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
540 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
541 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
542 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
543 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
544 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
545 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
546 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
547 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
548 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
549 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
550 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
551 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
552 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
553 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
554 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
555 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
556 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
557 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
558 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
559 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
560 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
561 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
562 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
563 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
564 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
565 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
566 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
567 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
568 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
570 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
571 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
572 links was completed long ago.
573 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
575 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
577 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
580 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
582 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
584 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
587 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
588 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
589 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
590 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
591 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
592 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
593 Millan (Closes: #209008).
594 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
595 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
597 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
599 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
601 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
602 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
603 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
604 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
605 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
606 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
607 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
609 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
610 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
611 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
612 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
614 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
615 Küster (Closes: #403391).
616 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
617 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
618 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
619 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
620 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
621 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
625 Closes: #186700, #458910
626 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
627 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
630 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
631 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
632 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
633 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
634 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
635 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
636 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
637 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
639 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
640 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
642 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
643 * Add an md5sums control file.
644 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
645 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
646 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
647 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
648 currently part of policy.
649 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
650 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
651 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
654 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
656 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
659 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
660 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
661 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
662 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
663 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
664 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
665 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
666 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
667 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
668 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
669 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
670 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
671 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
672 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
673 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
675 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
677 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
678 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
679 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
681 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
682 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
683 list?" (Closes: #412634).
684 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
685 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
686 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
687 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
688 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
689 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
690 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
691 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
692 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
693 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
694 debconf specification.
695 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
696 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
698 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
700 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
703 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
704 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
705 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
706 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
708 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
710 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
711 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
712 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
713 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
714 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
716 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
717 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
718 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
719 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
720 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
721 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
722 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
723 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
724 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
725 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
726 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
727 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
728 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
729 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
730 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
731 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
733 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
735 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
736 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
737 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
738 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
739 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
740 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
741 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
742 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
744 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
746 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
749 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
750 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
751 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
752 Polo (Closes: #372497).
753 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
754 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
756 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
757 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
758 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
759 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
760 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
761 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
762 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
763 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
764 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
765 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
767 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
768 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
769 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
770 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
771 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
772 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
774 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
776 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
779 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
780 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
781 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
783 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
784 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
786 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
788 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
791 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
792 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
793 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
794 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
795 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
796 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
797 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
798 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
799 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
801 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
802 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
803 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
804 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
805 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
806 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
807 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
808 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
809 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
810 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
811 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
814 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
816 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
819 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
820 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
821 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
822 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
823 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
824 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
825 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
826 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
827 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
828 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
829 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
830 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
831 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
832 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
833 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
834 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
835 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
836 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
837 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
838 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
839 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
840 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
841 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
842 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
843 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
844 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
845 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
847 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
848 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
849 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
850 Hess (Closes: #362247).
851 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
852 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
853 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
854 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
855 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
856 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
857 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
858 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
859 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
860 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
861 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
862 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
864 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
865 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
867 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
868 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
869 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
870 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
871 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
872 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
873 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
874 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
875 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
876 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
877 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
879 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
881 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
885 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
886 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
887 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
888 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
889 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
890 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
891 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
892 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
893 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
894 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
895 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
896 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
898 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
899 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
900 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
901 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
902 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
903 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
904 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
905 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
906 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
907 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
908 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
909 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
910 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
911 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
912 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
913 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
914 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
915 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
916 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
919 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
921 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
924 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
925 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
926 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
928 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
929 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
930 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
931 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
933 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
935 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
939 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
940 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
941 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
942 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
943 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
944 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
945 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
946 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
947 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
949 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
950 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
951 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
953 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
954 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
955 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
956 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
957 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
958 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
959 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
961 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
962 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
963 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
964 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
966 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
967 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
968 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
969 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
970 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
971 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
972 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
973 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
975 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
976 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
977 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
978 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
979 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
980 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
981 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
982 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
983 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
984 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
985 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
986 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
987 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
988 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
989 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
990 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
991 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
993 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
995 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
998 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
999 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1000 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1001 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1002 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1003 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1004 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1005 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1006 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1008 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1009 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1010 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1011 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1012 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1013 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1014 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1015 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1016 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1017 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1018 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1019 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1020 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1021 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1022 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1023 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1026 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1027 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1028 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1031 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1032 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1033 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1035 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1036 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1037 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1038 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1039 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1040 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1042 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1043 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1045 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1046 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1047 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1048 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1049 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1050 Closes: #185943, #237049
1052 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1054 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1060 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1061 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1062 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1063 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1064 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1065 running. closes: Bug#187250
1066 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1067 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1068 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1069 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1070 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1071 user closes: Bug#176506
1073 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1075 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1079 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1080 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1081 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1082 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1083 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1084 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1085 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1086 deb-building toolchain.
1087 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1088 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1089 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1090 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1091 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1092 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1093 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1094 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1095 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1096 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1097 sections about changelog files.
1099 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1100 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1101 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1102 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1103 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1104 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1106 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1107 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1108 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1109 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1110 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1111 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1112 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1113 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1114 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1115 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1116 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1117 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1118 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1119 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1120 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1121 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1122 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1123 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1124 for the restructuring
1126 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1128 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1133 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1134 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1135 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1136 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1137 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1138 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1140 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1141 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1142 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1143 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1144 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1145 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1146 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1148 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1149 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1150 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1151 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1153 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1155 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1159 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1160 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1161 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1162 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1163 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1165 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1166 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1167 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1168 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1170 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1171 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1172 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1173 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1174 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1175 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1176 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1177 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1178 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1179 offtopic stuff, too.
1180 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1181 script should start it, closes: #60979
1182 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1183 "should", closes: #170019
1184 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1185 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1186 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1187 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1188 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1189 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1190 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1191 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1194 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1196 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1200 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1201 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1202 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1203 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1204 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1205 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1206 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1207 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1209 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1210 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1211 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1212 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1213 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1214 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1215 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1216 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1217 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1219 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1220 file, closes: Bug#65764
1222 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1224 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1227 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1228 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1229 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1230 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1231 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1232 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1233 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1234 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1235 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1236 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1237 details. closes: Bug#133030
1238 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1239 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1240 parts of Bug#161455.
1242 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1244 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1247 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1248 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1249 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1250 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1251 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1252 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1253 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1254 not. closes: Bug#139820
1255 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1256 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1257 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1258 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1259 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1260 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1261 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1262 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1263 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1264 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1266 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1268 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1269 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1270 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1271 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1272 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1273 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1274 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1275 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1276 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1277 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1278 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1279 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1280 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1281 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1282 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1283 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1284 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1285 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1286 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1287 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1289 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1290 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1291 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1292 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1293 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1294 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1295 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1297 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1298 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1299 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1300 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1301 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1302 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1303 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1304 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1305 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1307 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1309 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1312 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1313 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1314 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1315 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1316 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1317 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1318 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1319 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1320 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1321 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1322 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1323 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1324 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1325 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1326 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1327 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1328 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1329 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1330 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1331 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1332 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1333 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1335 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1337 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1340 medium, high, emergency.
1341 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1342 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1343 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1344 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1345 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1348 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1349 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1350 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1352 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1353 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1354 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1355 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1356 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1357 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1358 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1361 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1363 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1366 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1367 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1368 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1370 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1371 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1372 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1373 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1374 debian/rules to do this
1375 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1376 patches are incorporated upstream
1377 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1378 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1379 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1380 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1381 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1382 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1384 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1385 system closes: Bug#91249
1386 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1387 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1388 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1389 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1390 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1391 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1392 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1393 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1394 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1395 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1396 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1397 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1398 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1400 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1402 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1405 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1406 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1407 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1409 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1410 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1411 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1413 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1416 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1418 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1421 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1422 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1423 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1424 package for the time being
1425 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1426 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1427 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1428 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1429 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1430 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1431 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1432 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1433 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1434 Build-Depends arch syntax
1435 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1437 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1438 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1440 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1441 from policy maintenance duties.
1442 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1443 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1445 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1447 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1451 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1453 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1456 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1457 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1458 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1459 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1460 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1461 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1462 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1463 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1464 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1465 minor version number for this
1466 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1467 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1468 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1469 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1470 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1471 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1472 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1473 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1474 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1476 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1478 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1481 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1482 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1483 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1484 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1486 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1488 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1489 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1490 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1491 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1492 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1493 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1494 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1495 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1496 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1497 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1498 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1499 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1500 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1501 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1502 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1503 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1506 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1508 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1511 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1513 * Document the Enhances relationship
1514 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1515 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1516 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1517 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1518 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1519 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1521 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1523 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1524 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1525 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1526 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1528 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1529 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1530 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1531 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1532 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1534 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1536 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1539 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1540 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1542 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1543 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1544 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1545 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1546 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1547 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1548 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1549 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1550 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1552 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1554 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1556 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1559 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1560 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1561 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1562 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1563 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1564 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1565 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1566 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1567 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1568 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1569 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1570 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1571 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1572 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1573 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1574 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1575 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1576 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1577 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1578 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1579 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1581 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1582 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1584 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1586 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1589 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1590 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1591 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1592 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1593 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1594 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1595 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1596 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1597 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1598 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1599 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1600 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1601 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1602 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1603 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1604 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1605 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1606 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1607 list closes: Bug#53756
1608 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1609 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1610 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1611 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1612 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1613 policy closes: Bug#53760
1614 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1615 policy closes: Bug#53761
1616 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1617 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1618 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1619 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1620 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1621 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1622 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1623 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1624 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1625 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1626 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1628 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1629 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1630 to install with older fileutils.
1631 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1632 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1633 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1634 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1636 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1637 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1639 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1641 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1644 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1646 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1648 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1651 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1653 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1656 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1659 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1661 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1663 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1665 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1668 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1670 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1672 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1675 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1676 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1677 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1678 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1679 directoried (closes: #41547)
1680 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1681 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1682 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1683 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1684 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1685 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1686 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1687 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1688 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1689 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1690 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1692 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1693 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1694 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1695 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1696 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1697 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1698 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1700 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1701 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1702 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1703 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1705 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1707 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1709 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1710 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1712 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1714 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1717 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1719 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1721 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1724 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1726 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1727 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1728 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1729 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1730 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1731 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1732 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1733 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1734 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1735 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1736 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1737 this closes: Bug#38612
1738 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1739 before. closes: Bug#40864
1741 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1743 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1746 officially uploaded.
1747 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1749 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1750 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1751 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1753 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1754 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1755 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1756 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1757 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1758 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1760 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1761 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1762 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1764 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1766 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1767 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1768 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1769 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1770 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1772 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1774 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1777 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1778 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1779 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1780 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1781 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1782 there). closes: Bug#34233
1783 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1784 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1785 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1786 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1787 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1789 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1791 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1794 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1795 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1796 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1799 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1800 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1801 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1802 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1803 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1806 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1807 number. closes: BUG#25911
1809 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1810 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1811 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1812 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1813 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1814 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1816 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1817 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1818 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1821 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1822 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1823 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1825 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1826 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1827 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1828 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1830 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1831 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1832 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1834 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1836 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1837 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1838 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1839 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1840 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1841 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1842 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1843 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1846 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1848 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1849 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1852 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1854 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1858 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1860 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1863 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1864 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1865 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1866 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1867 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1868 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1869 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1871 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1872 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1874 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1876 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1878 * non-maintainer release
1879 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1880 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1882 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1883 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1884 * no content changes
1885 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1887 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1889 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1893 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1895 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1899 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1900 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1901 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1903 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1904 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1906 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1907 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1908 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1909 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1911 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1912 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1913 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1914 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1915 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1916 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1917 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1919 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1920 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1921 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1924 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1925 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1926 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1928 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1929 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1930 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1932 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1933 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1935 * New version numbering scheme:
1937 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1938 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1939 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1942 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1943 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1944 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1945 differ between the manuals.
1947 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1948 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1949 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1950 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1952 * Packaging changes:
1954 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1955 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1957 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1959 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1961 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1965 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1966 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1967 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1969 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1970 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1973 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1974 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1975 file extension as the referenced file
1977 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1978 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1980 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1981 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1982 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1983 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1986 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1987 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1988 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1990 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1991 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1992 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1993 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1996 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1997 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2000 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2001 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2002 reasonable default configuration
2004 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2005 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2006 by all news servers and clients
2008 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2009 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2010 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2011 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2012 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2014 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2015 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2018 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2020 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2021 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2023 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2026 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2027 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2029 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2030 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2032 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2034 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2036 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2039 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2040 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2041 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2043 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2045 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2046 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2047 * Don't use debstd anymore
2049 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2051 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2054 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2055 contrib/non-free policy
2056 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2057 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2058 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2059 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2060 - new section about `Daemons'
2061 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2062 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2063 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2064 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2065 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2066 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2067 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2068 * SGML source code included in package
2069 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2071 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2073 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2076 - completely reworked structure
2077 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2078 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2079 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2080 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2081 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2082 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2083 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2084 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2085 - mention "orphaned packages"
2086 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2087 distributions' policy
2088 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2089 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2090 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2091 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2092 - added section about arch spec strings
2093 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2094 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2095 - added section about "menus"
2096 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2097 the new documentation policy soon
2098 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2099 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2101 - added section about editors and pagers
2102 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2103 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2104 - added section about device files
2105 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2106 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2107 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2109 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2110 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2111 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2112 - Added new section about obsolete names
2113 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2114 * Fixed package's description
2116 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2118 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2122 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2124 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2127 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2128 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2129 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2131 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2133 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2136 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2137 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2139 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2140 and upload it "byhand" too.
2142 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2144 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2148 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2149 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2150 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2151 functionality must not have the same name.
2152 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2153 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2154 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2155 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2156 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2157 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2158 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2160 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2161 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2162 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2163 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2164 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2165 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2166 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2167 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2170 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2172 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2174 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2176 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2177 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2178 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2179 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2180 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2183 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2185 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2187 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2189 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2190 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2191 description of deb file format.
2192 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2193 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2195 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2197 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2198 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2200 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2202 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2204 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2205 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2206 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2207 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2208 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2209 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2210 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2211 packages in section on Procedure
2212 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2213 a package maintainer
2214 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2215 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2216 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2218 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2219 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2220 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2221 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2222 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2223 on various shlib files
2224 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2225 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2226 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2228 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2230 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2232 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2233 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2234 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2236 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2237 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2238 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2239 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2240 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2242 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2244 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2246 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2248 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2250 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2251 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2252 compatibility go in contrib.
2254 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2255 instructions in policy manual.
2256 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2259 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2261 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2263 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2264 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2265 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2266 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2268 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2269 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2272 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2274 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2276 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2277 * More detail about changelog format names.
2279 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2280 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2284 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2286 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2288 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2290 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2292 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2294 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2296 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2298 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2299 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2300 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2302 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2304 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2306 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2308 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2310 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2314 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100