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 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
9 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
10 machine. (Closes: #591857)
11 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
12 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
13 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
14 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
15 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
16 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
17 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
19 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:47:47 -0700
21 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
24 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
29 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
30 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
34 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
39 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
40 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
44 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
45 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
49 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
50 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
54 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
55 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
59 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
60 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
62 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
64 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
65 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
67 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
69 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
70 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
75 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
76 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
81 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
82 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
86 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
87 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
91 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
92 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
96 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
97 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
101 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
102 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
106 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
107 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
111 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
113 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
114 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
115 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
116 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
117 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
118 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
119 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
120 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
121 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
123 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
124 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
125 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
126 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
127 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
128 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
130 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
132 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
138 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
141 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
142 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
143 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
144 and distribution license' (three times).
145 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
146 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
151 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
153 Proposed by Santiago Vila
154 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
161 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
162 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
166 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
167 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
168 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
171 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
173 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
174 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
178 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
179 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
182 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
184 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
185 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
188 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
190 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
191 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
194 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
196 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
197 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
198 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
201 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
202 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
207 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
208 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
212 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
213 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
217 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
218 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
219 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
223 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
224 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
225 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
228 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
229 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
234 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
235 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
239 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
240 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
241 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
242 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
243 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
244 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
245 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
246 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
247 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
248 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
249 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
250 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
251 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
252 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
253 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
254 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
255 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
256 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
257 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
258 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
259 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
260 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
261 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
262 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
263 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
264 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
265 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
266 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
267 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
268 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
269 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
270 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
272 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
274 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
276 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
280 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
282 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
283 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
287 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
290 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
291 Wording: Steve Langasek.
292 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
293 Seconded: Julien Cristau
294 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
297 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
298 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
299 Seconded: Russ Allbery
300 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
303 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
304 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
305 Seconded: Russ Allbery
307 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
308 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
309 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
310 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
311 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
312 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
313 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
314 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
317 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
318 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
319 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
320 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
321 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
322 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
323 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
325 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
326 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
327 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
328 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
329 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
330 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
331 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
334 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
335 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
336 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
337 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
338 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
340 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
343 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
344 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
347 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
348 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
351 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
353 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
356 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
360 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
361 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
365 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
366 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
370 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
371 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
374 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
375 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
377 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
378 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
383 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
384 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
388 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
389 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
393 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
394 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
398 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
399 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
403 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
404 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
408 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
409 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
410 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
411 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
412 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
413 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
414 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
415 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
416 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
417 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
418 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
419 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
420 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
421 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
422 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
424 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
425 Source field descriptions.
426 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
427 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
428 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
429 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
430 description says otherwise.
432 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
434 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
438 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
441 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
442 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
444 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
445 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
449 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
450 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
454 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
455 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
459 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
460 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
461 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
462 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
466 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
467 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
468 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
469 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
470 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
472 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
473 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
477 * Add myself to Uploaders.
480 * Add myself to Uploaders.
481 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
483 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
484 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
485 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
487 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
489 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
492 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
496 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
497 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
499 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
501 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
502 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
506 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
507 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
509 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
511 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
512 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
516 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
517 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
521 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
522 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
524 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
526 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
527 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
529 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
531 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
532 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
533 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
534 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
536 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
537 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
541 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
542 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
545 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
547 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
548 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
549 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
550 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
551 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
552 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
553 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
554 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
555 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
556 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
557 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
558 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
559 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
560 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
561 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
562 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
563 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
564 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
565 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
566 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
567 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
568 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
569 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
570 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
571 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
572 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
573 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
574 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
575 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
576 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
578 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
579 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
580 links was completed long ago.
581 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
583 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
585 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
588 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
590 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
592 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
595 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
596 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
597 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
598 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
599 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
600 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
601 Millan (Closes: #209008).
602 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
603 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
605 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
607 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
609 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
610 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
611 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
612 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
613 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
614 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
615 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
617 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
618 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
619 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
620 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
622 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
623 Küster (Closes: #403391).
624 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
625 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
626 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
627 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
628 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
629 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
632 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
633 Closes: #186700, #458910
634 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
635 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
638 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
639 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
640 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
641 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
642 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
643 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
644 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
645 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
647 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
648 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
650 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
651 * Add an md5sums control file.
652 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
653 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
654 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
655 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
656 currently part of policy.
657 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
658 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
659 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
662 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
664 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
667 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
668 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
669 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
670 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
671 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
672 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
673 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
674 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
675 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
676 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
677 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
678 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
679 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
680 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
681 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
683 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
685 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
686 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
687 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
689 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
690 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
691 list?" (Closes: #412634).
692 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
693 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
694 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
695 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
696 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
697 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
698 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
699 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
700 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
701 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
702 debconf specification.
703 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
704 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
706 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
708 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
711 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
712 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
713 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
714 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
716 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
718 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
719 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
720 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
721 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
722 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
724 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
725 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
726 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
727 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
728 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
729 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
730 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
731 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
732 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
733 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
734 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
735 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
736 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
737 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
738 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
739 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
741 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
743 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
744 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
745 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
746 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
747 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
748 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
749 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
750 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
752 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
754 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
757 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
758 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
759 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
760 Polo (Closes: #372497).
761 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
762 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
764 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
765 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
766 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
767 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
768 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
769 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
770 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
771 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
772 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
773 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
775 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
776 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
777 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
778 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
779 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
780 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
782 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
784 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
787 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
788 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
789 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
791 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
792 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
794 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
796 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
799 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
800 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
801 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
802 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
803 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
804 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
805 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
806 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
807 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
809 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
810 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
811 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
812 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
813 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
814 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
815 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
816 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
817 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
818 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
819 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
822 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
824 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
827 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
828 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
829 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
830 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
831 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
832 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
833 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
834 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
835 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
836 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
837 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
838 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
839 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
840 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
841 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
842 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
843 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
844 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
845 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
846 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
847 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
848 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
849 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
850 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
851 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
852 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
853 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
855 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
856 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
857 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
858 Hess (Closes: #362247).
859 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
860 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
861 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
862 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
863 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
864 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
865 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
866 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
867 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
868 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
869 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
870 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
872 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
873 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
875 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
876 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
877 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
878 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
879 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
880 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
881 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
882 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
883 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
884 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
885 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
887 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
889 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
893 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
894 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
895 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
896 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
897 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
898 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
899 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
900 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
901 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
902 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
903 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
904 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
906 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
907 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
908 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
909 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
910 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
911 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
912 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
913 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
914 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
915 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
916 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
917 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
918 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
919 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
920 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
921 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
922 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
923 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
924 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
927 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
929 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
932 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
933 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
934 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
936 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
937 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
938 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
939 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
941 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
943 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
947 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
948 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
949 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
950 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
951 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
952 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
953 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
954 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
955 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
957 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
958 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
959 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
961 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
962 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
963 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
964 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
965 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
966 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
967 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
969 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
970 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
971 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
972 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
974 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
975 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
976 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
977 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
978 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
979 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
980 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
981 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
983 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
984 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
985 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
986 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
987 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
988 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
989 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
990 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
991 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
992 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
993 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
994 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
995 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
996 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
997 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
998 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
999 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1001 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1003 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1007 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1008 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1009 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1010 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1011 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1012 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1013 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1014 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1016 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1017 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1018 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1019 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1020 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1021 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1022 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1023 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1024 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1025 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1026 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1027 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1028 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1029 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1030 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1031 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1032 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1034 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1035 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1036 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1039 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1040 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1041 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1043 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1044 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1045 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1046 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1047 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1048 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1050 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1051 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1053 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1054 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1055 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1056 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1057 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1058 Closes: #185943, #237049
1060 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1062 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1068 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1069 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1070 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1071 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1072 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1073 running. closes: Bug#187250
1074 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1075 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1076 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1077 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1078 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1079 user closes: Bug#176506
1081 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1083 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1087 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1088 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1089 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1090 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1091 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1092 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1093 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1094 deb-building toolchain.
1095 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1096 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1097 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1098 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1099 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1100 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1101 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1102 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1103 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1104 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1105 sections about changelog files.
1107 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1108 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1109 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1110 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1111 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1112 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1114 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1115 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1116 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1117 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1118 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1119 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1120 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1121 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1122 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1123 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1124 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1125 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1126 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1127 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1128 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1129 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1130 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1131 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1132 for the restructuring
1134 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1136 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1141 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1142 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1143 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1144 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1145 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1146 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1148 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1149 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1150 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1151 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1152 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1153 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1154 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1156 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1157 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1158 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1159 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1161 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1163 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1167 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1168 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1169 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1170 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1171 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1173 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1174 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1175 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1176 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1178 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1179 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1180 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1181 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1182 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1183 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1184 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1185 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1186 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1187 offtopic stuff, too.
1188 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1189 script should start it, closes: #60979
1190 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1191 "should", closes: #170019
1192 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1193 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1194 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1195 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1196 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1197 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1198 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1199 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1202 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1204 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1208 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1209 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1210 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1211 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1212 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1213 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1214 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1215 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1217 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1218 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1219 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1220 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1221 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1222 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1223 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1224 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1225 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1227 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1228 file, closes: Bug#65764
1230 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1232 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1235 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1236 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1237 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1238 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1239 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1240 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1241 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1242 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1243 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1244 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1245 details. closes: Bug#133030
1246 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1247 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1248 parts of Bug#161455.
1250 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1252 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1255 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1256 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1257 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1258 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1259 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1260 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1261 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1262 not. closes: Bug#139820
1263 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1264 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1265 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1266 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1267 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1268 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1269 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1270 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1271 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1272 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1274 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1276 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1277 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1278 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1279 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1280 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1281 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1282 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1283 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1284 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1285 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1286 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1287 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1288 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1289 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1290 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1291 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1292 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1293 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1294 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1295 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1297 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1298 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1299 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1300 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1301 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1302 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1303 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1305 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1306 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1307 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1308 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1309 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1310 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1311 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1312 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1313 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1315 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1317 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1320 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1321 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1322 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1323 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1324 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1325 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1326 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1327 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1328 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1329 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1330 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1331 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1332 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1333 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1334 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1335 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1336 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1337 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1338 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1339 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1340 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1341 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1343 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1345 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1348 medium, high, emergency.
1349 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1350 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1351 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1352 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1353 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1356 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1357 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1358 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1360 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1361 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1362 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1363 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1364 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1365 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1366 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1369 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1371 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1374 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1375 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1376 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1378 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1379 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1380 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1381 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1382 debian/rules to do this
1383 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1384 patches are incorporated upstream
1385 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1386 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1387 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1388 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1389 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1390 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1392 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1393 system closes: Bug#91249
1394 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1395 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1396 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1397 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1398 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1399 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1400 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1401 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1402 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1403 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1404 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1405 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1406 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1408 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1410 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1413 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1414 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1415 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1417 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1418 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1419 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1421 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1424 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1426 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1429 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1430 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1431 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1432 package for the time being
1433 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1434 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1435 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1436 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1437 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1438 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1439 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1440 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1441 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1442 Build-Depends arch syntax
1443 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1445 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1446 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1448 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1449 from policy maintenance duties.
1450 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1451 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1453 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1455 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1459 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1461 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1464 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1465 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1466 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1467 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1468 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1469 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1470 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1471 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1472 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1473 minor version number for this
1474 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1475 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1476 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1477 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1478 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1479 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1480 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1481 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1482 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1484 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1486 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1489 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1490 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1491 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1492 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1494 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1496 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1497 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1498 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1499 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1500 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1501 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1502 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1503 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1504 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1505 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1506 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1507 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1508 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1509 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1510 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1511 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1514 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1516 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1519 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1521 * Document the Enhances relationship
1522 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1523 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1524 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1525 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1526 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1527 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1529 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1531 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1532 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1533 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1534 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1536 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1537 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1538 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1539 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1540 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1542 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1544 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1547 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1548 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1550 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1551 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1552 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1553 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1554 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1555 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1556 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1557 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1558 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1560 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1562 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1564 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1567 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1568 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1569 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1570 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1571 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1572 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1573 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1574 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1575 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1576 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1577 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1578 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1579 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1580 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1581 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1582 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1583 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1584 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1585 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1586 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1587 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1589 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1590 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1592 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1594 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1597 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1598 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1599 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1600 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1601 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1602 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1603 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1604 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1605 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1606 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1607 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1608 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1609 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1610 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1611 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1612 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1613 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1614 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1615 list closes: Bug#53756
1616 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1617 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1618 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1619 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1620 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1621 policy closes: Bug#53760
1622 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1623 policy closes: Bug#53761
1624 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1625 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1626 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1627 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1628 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1629 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1630 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1631 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1632 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1633 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1634 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1636 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1637 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1638 to install with older fileutils.
1639 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1640 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1641 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1642 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1644 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1645 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1647 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1649 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1652 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1654 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1656 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1659 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1661 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1664 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1667 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1669 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1671 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1673 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1676 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1678 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1680 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1683 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1684 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1685 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1686 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1687 directoried (closes: #41547)
1688 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1689 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1690 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1691 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1692 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1693 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1694 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1695 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1696 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1697 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1698 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1700 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1701 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1702 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1703 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1704 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1705 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1706 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1708 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1709 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1710 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1711 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1713 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1715 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1717 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1718 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1720 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1722 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1725 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1727 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1729 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1732 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1734 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1735 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1736 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1737 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1738 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1739 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1740 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1741 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1742 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1743 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1744 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1745 this closes: Bug#38612
1746 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1747 before. closes: Bug#40864
1749 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1751 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1754 officially uploaded.
1755 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1757 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1758 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1759 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1761 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1762 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1763 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1764 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1765 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1766 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1768 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1769 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1770 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1772 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1774 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1775 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1776 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1777 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1778 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1780 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1782 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1785 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1786 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1787 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1788 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1789 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1790 there). closes: Bug#34233
1791 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1792 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1793 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1794 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1795 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1797 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1799 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1802 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1803 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1804 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1807 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1808 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1809 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1810 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1811 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1814 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1815 number. closes: BUG#25911
1817 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1818 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1819 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1820 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1821 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1822 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1824 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1825 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1826 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1829 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1830 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1831 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1833 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1834 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1835 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1836 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1838 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1839 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1840 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1842 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1844 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1845 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1846 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1847 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1848 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1849 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1850 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1851 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1854 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1856 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1857 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1860 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1862 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1866 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1868 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1871 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1872 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1873 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1874 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1875 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1876 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1877 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1879 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1880 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1882 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1884 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1886 * non-maintainer release
1887 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1888 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1890 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1891 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1892 * no content changes
1893 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1895 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1897 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1901 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1903 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1907 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1908 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1909 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1911 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1912 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1914 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1915 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1916 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1917 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1919 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1920 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1921 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1922 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1923 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1924 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1925 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1927 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1928 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1929 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1932 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1933 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1934 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1936 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1937 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1938 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1940 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1941 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1943 * New version numbering scheme:
1945 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1946 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1947 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1950 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1951 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1952 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1953 differ between the manuals.
1955 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1956 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1957 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1958 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1960 * Packaging changes:
1962 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1963 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1965 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1967 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1969 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1973 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1974 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1975 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1977 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1978 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1981 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1982 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1983 file extension as the referenced file
1985 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1986 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1988 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1989 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1990 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1991 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1994 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1995 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1996 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1998 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1999 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2000 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2001 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2004 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2005 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2008 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2009 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2010 reasonable default configuration
2012 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2013 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2014 by all news servers and clients
2016 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2017 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2018 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2019 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2020 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2022 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2023 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2026 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2028 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2029 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2031 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2034 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2035 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2037 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2038 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2040 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2042 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2044 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2047 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2048 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2049 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2051 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2053 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2054 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2055 * Don't use debstd anymore
2057 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2059 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2062 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2063 contrib/non-free policy
2064 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2065 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2066 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2067 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2068 - new section about `Daemons'
2069 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2070 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2071 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2072 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2073 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2074 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2075 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2076 * SGML source code included in package
2077 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2079 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2081 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2084 - completely reworked structure
2085 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2086 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2087 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2088 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2089 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2090 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2091 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2092 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2093 - mention "orphaned packages"
2094 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2095 distributions' policy
2096 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2097 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2098 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2099 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2100 - added section about arch spec strings
2101 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2102 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2103 - added section about "menus"
2104 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2105 the new documentation policy soon
2106 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2107 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2109 - added section about editors and pagers
2110 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2111 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2112 - added section about device files
2113 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2114 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2115 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2117 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2118 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2119 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2120 - Added new section about obsolete names
2121 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2122 * Fixed package's description
2124 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2126 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2130 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2132 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2135 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2136 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2137 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2139 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2141 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2144 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2145 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2147 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2148 and upload it "byhand" too.
2150 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2152 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2156 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2157 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2158 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2159 functionality must not have the same name.
2160 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2161 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2162 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2163 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2164 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2165 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2166 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2168 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2169 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2170 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2171 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2172 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2173 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2174 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2175 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2178 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2180 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2182 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2184 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2185 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2186 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2187 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2188 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2191 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2193 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2195 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2197 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2198 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2199 description of deb file format.
2200 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2201 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2203 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2205 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2206 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2208 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2210 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2212 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2213 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2214 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2215 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2216 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2217 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2218 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2219 packages in section on Procedure
2220 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2221 a package maintainer
2222 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2223 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2224 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2226 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2227 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2228 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2229 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2230 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2231 on various shlib files
2232 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2233 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2234 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2236 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2238 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2240 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2241 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2242 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2244 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2245 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2246 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2247 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2248 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2250 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2252 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2254 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2256 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2258 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2259 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2260 compatibility go in contrib.
2262 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2263 instructions in policy manual.
2264 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2267 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2269 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2271 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2272 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2273 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2274 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2276 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2277 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2280 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2282 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2284 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2285 * More detail about changelog format names.
2287 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2288 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2292 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2294 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2296 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2298 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2300 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2302 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2304 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2306 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2307 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2308 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2310 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2312 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2314 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2316 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2318 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2322 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100