1 debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
5 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:35:51 +0200
7 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
10 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
11 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
13 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
14 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
15 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
16 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
17 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
18 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
19 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
20 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
21 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
23 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
25 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
26 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
32 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
33 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
37 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
38 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
42 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
43 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
47 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
49 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
54 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
55 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
57 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
59 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
60 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
64 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
65 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
67 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
69 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
70 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
74 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
75 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
76 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
79 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
80 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
82 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
85 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
86 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
87 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
88 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
90 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
93 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
95 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
98 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
102 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
103 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
108 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
109 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
113 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
114 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
115 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
116 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
120 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
121 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
122 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
126 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
130 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
131 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
133 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
135 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
136 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
137 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
141 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
142 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
146 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
147 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
149 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
151 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
152 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
153 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
156 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
157 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
158 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
161 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
162 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
163 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
164 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
166 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
167 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
168 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
169 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
170 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
171 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
172 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
173 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
174 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
175 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
176 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
177 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
179 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
180 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
181 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
182 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
184 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
186 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
188 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
189 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
190 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
192 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
193 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
194 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
195 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
200 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
201 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
205 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
206 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
210 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
211 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
212 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
213 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
217 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
218 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
222 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
223 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
225 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
228 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
229 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
230 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
233 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
234 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
239 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
241 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
244 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
245 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
246 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
247 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
249 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
250 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
251 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
252 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
253 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
254 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
255 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
256 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
257 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
258 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
259 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
260 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
261 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
262 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
263 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
264 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
265 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
267 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
268 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
269 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
270 good to know which version one is looking at.
271 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
272 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
273 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
274 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
275 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
276 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
277 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
279 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
280 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
281 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
282 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
283 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
285 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
286 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
287 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
289 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
290 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
291 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
292 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
294 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
296 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
300 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
301 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
302 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
303 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
304 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
305 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
306 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
307 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
308 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
309 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
314 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
315 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
320 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
321 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
322 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
325 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
327 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
328 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
332 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
333 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
336 Closes: #620870, #532120
337 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
338 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
343 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
344 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
345 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
349 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
350 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
351 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
352 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
353 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
355 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
356 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
357 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
358 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
359 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
360 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
361 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
362 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
363 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
364 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
365 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
366 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
367 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
368 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
369 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
370 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
372 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
374 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
375 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
376 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
377 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
378 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
379 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
380 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
381 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
382 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
383 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
386 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
388 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
389 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
390 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
391 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
396 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
397 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
399 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
400 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
401 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
402 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
405 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
407 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
411 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
412 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
413 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
416 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
417 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
418 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
420 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
421 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
427 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
428 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
429 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
432 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
433 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
438 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
439 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
440 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
441 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
444 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
445 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
446 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
449 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
450 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
455 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
457 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
460 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
463 Closes: #459868, #581011
464 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
465 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
467 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
469 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
470 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
472 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
475 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
477 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
479 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
480 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
484 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
485 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
488 Closes: #501930, #593909
489 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
490 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
494 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
495 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
496 machine. (Closes: #591857)
497 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
498 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
499 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
500 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
501 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
502 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
503 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
504 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
505 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
506 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
508 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
509 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
510 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
511 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
512 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
513 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
514 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
515 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
516 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
517 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
518 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
519 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
520 than the version in oldstable.
521 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
522 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
523 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
524 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
525 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
526 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
527 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
528 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
529 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
530 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
531 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
532 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
533 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
534 package. (Closes: #609160)
536 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
538 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
541 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
542 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
546 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
547 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
551 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
552 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
556 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
557 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
561 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
562 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
566 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
567 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
571 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
572 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
576 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
577 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
579 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
581 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
582 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
584 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
586 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
587 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
592 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
593 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
598 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
599 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
603 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
604 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
606 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
608 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
609 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
613 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
614 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
616 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
618 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
619 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
623 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
624 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
628 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
630 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
631 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
632 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
633 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
634 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
635 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
636 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
637 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
638 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
640 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
641 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
642 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
643 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
644 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
645 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
647 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
649 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
655 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
658 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
659 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
660 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
661 and distribution license' (three times).
662 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
663 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
664 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
668 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
670 Proposed by Santiago Vila
671 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
672 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
674 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
678 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
679 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
680 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
683 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
684 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
685 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
687 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
688 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
690 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
691 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
695 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
696 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
697 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
698 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
699 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
701 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
702 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
703 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
705 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
707 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
708 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
709 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
711 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
713 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
714 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
715 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
718 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
719 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
720 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
724 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
725 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
726 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
727 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
729 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
730 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
731 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
734 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
735 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
736 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
737 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
740 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
741 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
742 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
745 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
746 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
747 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
748 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
751 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
752 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
753 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
756 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
757 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
758 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
759 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
760 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
761 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
762 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
763 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
764 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
765 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
766 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
767 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
768 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
769 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
770 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
771 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
772 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
773 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
774 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
775 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
776 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
777 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
778 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
779 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
780 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
781 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
782 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
783 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
784 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
785 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
786 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
787 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
789 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
791 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
793 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
797 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
799 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
800 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
804 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
807 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
808 Wording: Steve Langasek.
809 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
810 Seconded: Julien Cristau
811 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
814 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
815 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
816 Seconded: Russ Allbery
817 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
820 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
821 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
822 Seconded: Russ Allbery
824 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
825 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
826 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
827 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
828 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
829 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
830 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
831 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
832 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
834 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
835 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
836 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
837 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
838 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
839 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
840 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
841 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
842 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
843 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
844 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
845 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
846 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
847 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
848 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
849 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
851 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
852 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
853 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
854 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
855 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
857 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
860 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
861 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
862 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
863 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
864 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
865 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
868 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
870 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
873 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
874 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
875 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
877 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
878 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
879 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
880 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
882 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
883 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
884 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
885 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
887 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
888 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
889 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
890 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
891 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
892 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
894 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
895 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
896 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
897 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
898 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
900 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
901 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
902 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
903 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
905 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
906 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
908 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
910 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
911 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
912 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
913 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
915 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
916 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
917 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
918 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
920 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
921 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
922 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
923 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
925 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
926 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
927 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
928 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
929 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
930 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
931 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
932 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
933 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
934 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
935 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
936 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
937 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
938 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
939 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
941 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
942 Source field descriptions.
943 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
944 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
945 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
946 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
947 description says otherwise.
949 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
951 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
954 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
955 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
956 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
957 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
958 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
959 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
961 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
962 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
963 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
964 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
966 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
967 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
968 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
969 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
971 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
972 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
973 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
974 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
976 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
977 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
978 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
979 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
983 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
984 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
985 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
986 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
987 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
989 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
990 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
991 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
992 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
994 * Add myself to Uploaders.
997 * Add myself to Uploaders.
998 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
1000 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
1001 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
1002 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
1004 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1006 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1009 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1010 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1011 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1013 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1014 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1015 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1016 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1018 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1019 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1020 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1021 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1023 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1024 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1025 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1026 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1028 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1029 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1030 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1031 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1033 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1034 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1035 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1036 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1038 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1039 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1040 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1041 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1043 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1044 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1045 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1046 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1048 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1049 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1050 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1051 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1053 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1054 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1055 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1056 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1058 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1059 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1060 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1061 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1062 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1064 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1065 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1066 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1067 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1068 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1069 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1070 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1071 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1072 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1073 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1074 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1075 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1076 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1077 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1078 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1079 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1080 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1081 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1082 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1083 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1084 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1085 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1086 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1087 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1088 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1089 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1090 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1091 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1092 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1093 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1095 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1096 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1097 links was completed long ago.
1098 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1100 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1102 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1105 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1107 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1109 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1112 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1113 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1114 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1115 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1116 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1117 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1118 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1119 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1120 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1122 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1124 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1126 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1127 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1128 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1129 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1130 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1131 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1132 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1134 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1135 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1136 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1137 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1139 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1140 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1141 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1142 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1143 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1144 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1145 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1146 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1147 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1148 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1149 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1150 Closes: #186700, #458910
1151 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1152 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1153 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1155 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1156 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1157 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1158 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1159 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1160 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1161 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1162 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1164 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1165 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1167 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1168 * Add an md5sums control file.
1169 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1170 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1171 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1172 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1173 currently part of policy.
1174 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1175 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1176 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1179 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1181 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1184 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1185 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1186 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1187 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1188 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1189 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1190 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1191 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1192 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1193 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1194 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1195 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1196 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1197 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1198 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1200 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1202 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1203 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1204 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1206 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1207 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1208 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1209 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1210 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1211 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1212 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1213 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1214 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1215 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1216 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1217 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1218 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1219 debconf specification.
1220 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1221 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1223 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1225 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1228 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1229 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1230 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1231 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1233 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1235 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1236 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1237 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1238 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1239 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1241 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1242 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1243 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1244 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1245 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1246 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1247 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1248 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1249 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1250 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1251 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1252 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1253 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1254 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1255 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1256 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1258 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1260 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1261 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1262 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1263 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1265 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1266 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1267 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1269 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1271 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1274 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1275 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1276 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1277 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1278 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1279 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1281 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1282 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1283 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1284 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1285 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1286 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1287 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1288 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1289 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1290 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1292 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1293 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1294 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1295 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1296 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1297 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1299 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1301 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1304 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1305 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1306 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1308 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1309 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1311 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1313 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1316 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1317 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1318 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1319 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1320 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1321 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1322 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1323 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1324 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1326 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1327 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1328 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1329 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1330 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1331 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1332 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1333 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1334 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1335 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1336 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1339 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1341 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1344 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1345 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1346 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1347 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1348 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1349 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1350 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1351 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1352 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1353 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1354 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1355 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1356 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1357 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1358 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1359 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1360 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1361 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1362 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1363 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1364 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1365 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1366 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1367 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1368 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1369 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1370 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1372 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1373 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1374 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1375 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1376 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1377 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1378 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1379 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1380 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1381 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1382 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1383 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1384 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1385 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1386 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1387 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1389 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1390 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1392 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1393 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1394 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1395 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1396 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1397 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1398 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1399 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1400 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1401 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1402 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1404 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1406 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1410 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1411 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1412 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1413 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1414 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1415 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1416 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1417 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1418 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1419 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1420 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1421 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1423 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1424 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1425 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1426 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1427 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1428 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1429 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1430 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1431 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1432 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1433 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1434 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1435 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1436 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1437 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1438 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1439 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1440 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1441 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1444 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1446 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1449 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1450 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1451 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1453 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1454 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1455 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1456 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1458 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1460 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1464 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1465 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1466 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1467 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1468 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1469 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1470 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1471 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1472 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1474 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1475 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1476 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1478 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1479 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1480 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1481 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1482 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1483 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1484 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1486 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1487 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1488 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1489 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1491 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1492 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1493 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1494 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1495 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1496 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1497 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1498 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1500 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1501 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1502 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1503 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1504 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1505 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1506 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1507 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1508 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1509 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1510 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1511 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1512 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1513 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1514 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1515 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1516 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1518 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1520 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1524 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1525 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1526 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1527 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1528 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1529 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1530 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1531 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1533 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1534 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1535 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1536 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1537 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1538 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1539 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1540 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1541 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1542 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1543 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1544 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1545 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1546 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1547 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1548 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1549 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1551 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1552 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1553 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1556 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1557 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1558 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1560 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1561 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1562 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1563 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1564 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1565 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1567 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1568 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1570 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1571 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1572 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1573 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1574 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1575 Closes: #185943, #237049
1577 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1579 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1585 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1586 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1587 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1588 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1589 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1590 running. closes: Bug#187250
1591 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1592 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1593 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1594 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1595 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1596 user closes: Bug#176506
1598 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1600 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1604 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1605 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1606 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1607 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1608 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1609 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1610 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1611 deb-building toolchain.
1612 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1613 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1614 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1615 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1616 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1617 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1618 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1619 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1620 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1621 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1622 sections about changelog files.
1624 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1625 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1626 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1627 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1628 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1629 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1631 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1632 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1633 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1634 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1635 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1636 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1637 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1638 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1639 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1640 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1641 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1642 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1643 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1644 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1645 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1646 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1647 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1648 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1649 for the restructuring
1651 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1653 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1658 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1659 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1660 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1661 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1662 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1663 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1665 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1666 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1667 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1668 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1669 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1670 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1671 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1673 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1674 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1675 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1676 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1678 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1680 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1684 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1685 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1686 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1687 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1688 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1690 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1691 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1692 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1693 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1695 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1696 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1697 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1698 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1699 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1700 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1701 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1702 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1703 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1704 offtopic stuff, too.
1705 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1706 script should start it, closes: #60979
1707 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1708 "should", closes: #170019
1709 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1710 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1711 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1712 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1713 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1714 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1715 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1716 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1719 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1721 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1725 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1726 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1727 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1728 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1729 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1730 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1731 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1732 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1734 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1735 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1736 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1737 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1738 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1739 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1740 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1741 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1742 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1744 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1745 file, closes: Bug#65764
1747 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1749 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1752 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1753 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1754 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1755 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1756 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1757 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1758 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1759 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1760 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1761 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1762 details. closes: Bug#133030
1763 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1764 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1765 parts of Bug#161455.
1767 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1769 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1772 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1773 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1774 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1775 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1776 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1777 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1778 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1779 not. closes: Bug#139820
1780 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1781 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1782 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1783 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1784 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1785 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1786 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1787 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1788 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1789 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1791 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1793 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1794 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1795 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1796 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1797 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1798 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1799 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1800 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1801 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1802 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1803 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1804 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1805 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1806 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1807 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1808 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1809 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1810 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1811 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1812 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1814 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1815 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1816 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1817 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1818 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1819 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1820 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1822 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1823 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1824 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1825 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1826 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1827 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1828 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1829 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1830 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1832 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1834 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1837 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1838 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1839 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1840 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1841 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1842 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1843 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1844 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1845 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1846 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1847 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1848 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1849 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1850 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1851 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1852 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1853 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1854 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1855 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1856 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1857 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1858 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1860 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1862 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1865 medium, high, emergency.
1866 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1867 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1868 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1869 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1870 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1873 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1874 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1875 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1877 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1878 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1879 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1880 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1881 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1882 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1883 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1886 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1888 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1891 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1892 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1893 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1895 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1896 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1897 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1898 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1899 debian/rules to do this
1900 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1901 patches are incorporated upstream
1902 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1903 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1904 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1905 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1906 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1907 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1909 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1910 system closes: Bug#91249
1911 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1912 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1913 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1914 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1915 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1916 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1917 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1918 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1919 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1920 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1921 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1922 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1923 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1925 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1927 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1930 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1931 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1932 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1934 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1935 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1936 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1938 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1941 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1943 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1946 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1947 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1948 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1949 package for the time being
1950 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1951 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1952 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1953 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1954 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1955 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1956 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1957 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1958 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1959 Build-Depends arch syntax
1960 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1962 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1963 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1965 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1966 from policy maintenance duties.
1967 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1968 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1970 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1972 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1976 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1978 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1981 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1982 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1983 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1984 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1985 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1986 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1987 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1988 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1989 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1990 minor version number for this
1991 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1992 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1993 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1994 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1995 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1996 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1997 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1998 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1999 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
2001 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
2003 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2006 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2007 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2008 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2009 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2011 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2013 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2014 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2015 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2016 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2017 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2018 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2019 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2020 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2021 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2022 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2023 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2024 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2025 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2026 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2027 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2028 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2031 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2033 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2036 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2038 * Document the Enhances relationship
2039 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2040 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2041 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2042 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2043 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2044 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2046 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2048 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2049 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2050 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2051 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2053 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2054 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2055 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2056 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2057 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2059 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2061 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2064 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2065 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2067 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2068 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2069 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2070 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2071 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2072 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2073 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2074 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2075 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2077 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2079 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2081 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2084 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2085 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2086 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2087 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2088 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2089 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2090 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2091 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2092 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2093 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2094 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2095 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2096 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2097 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2098 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2099 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2100 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2101 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2102 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2103 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2104 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2106 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2107 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2109 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2111 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2114 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2115 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2116 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2117 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2118 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2119 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2120 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2121 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2122 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2123 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2124 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2125 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2126 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2127 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2128 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2129 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2130 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2131 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2132 list closes: Bug#53756
2133 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2134 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2135 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2136 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2137 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2138 policy closes: Bug#53760
2139 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2140 policy closes: Bug#53761
2141 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2142 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2143 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2144 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2145 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2146 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2147 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2148 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2149 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2150 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2151 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2153 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2154 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2155 to install with older fileutils.
2156 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2157 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2158 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2159 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2161 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2162 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2164 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2166 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2169 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2171 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2173 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2176 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2178 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2181 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2184 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2186 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2188 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2190 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2193 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2195 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2197 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2200 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2201 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2202 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2203 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2204 directoried (closes: #41547)
2205 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2206 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2207 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2208 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2209 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2210 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2211 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2212 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2213 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2214 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2215 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2217 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2218 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2219 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2220 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2221 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2222 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2223 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2225 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2226 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2227 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2228 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2230 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2232 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2234 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2235 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2237 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2239 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2242 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2244 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2246 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2249 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2251 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2252 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2253 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2254 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2255 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2256 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2257 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2258 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2259 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2260 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2261 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2262 this closes: Bug#38612
2263 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2264 before. closes: Bug#40864
2266 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2268 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2271 officially uploaded.
2272 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2274 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2275 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2276 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2278 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2279 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2280 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2281 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2282 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2283 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2285 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2286 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2287 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2289 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2291 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2292 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2293 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2294 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2295 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2297 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2299 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2302 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2303 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2304 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2305 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2306 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2307 there). closes: Bug#34233
2308 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2309 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2310 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2311 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2312 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2314 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2316 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2319 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2320 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2321 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2324 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2325 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2326 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2327 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2328 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2331 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2332 number. closes: BUG#25911
2334 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2335 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2336 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2337 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2338 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2339 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2341 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2342 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2343 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2346 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2347 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2348 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2350 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2351 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2352 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2353 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2355 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2356 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2357 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2359 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2361 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2362 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2363 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2364 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2365 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2366 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2367 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2368 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2371 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2373 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2374 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2377 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2379 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2383 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2385 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2388 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2389 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2390 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2391 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2392 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2393 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2394 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2396 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2397 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2399 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2401 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2403 * non-maintainer release
2404 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2405 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2407 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2408 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2409 * no content changes
2410 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2412 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2414 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2418 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2420 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2424 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2425 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2426 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2428 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2429 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2431 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2432 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2433 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2434 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2436 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2437 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2438 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2439 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2440 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2441 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2442 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2444 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2445 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2446 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2449 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2450 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2451 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2453 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2454 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2455 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2457 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2458 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2460 * New version numbering scheme:
2462 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2463 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2464 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2467 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2468 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2469 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2470 differ between the manuals.
2472 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2473 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2474 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2475 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2477 * Packaging changes:
2479 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2480 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2482 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2484 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2486 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2490 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2491 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2492 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2494 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2495 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2498 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2499 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2500 file extension as the referenced file
2502 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2503 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2505 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2506 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2507 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2508 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2511 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2512 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2513 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2515 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2516 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2517 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2518 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2521 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2522 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2525 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2526 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2527 reasonable default configuration
2529 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2530 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2531 by all news servers and clients
2533 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2534 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2535 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2536 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2537 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2539 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2540 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2543 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2545 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2546 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2548 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2551 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2552 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2554 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2555 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2557 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2559 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2561 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2564 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2565 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2566 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2568 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2570 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2571 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2572 * Don't use debstd anymore
2574 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2576 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2579 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2580 contrib/non-free policy
2581 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2582 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2583 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2584 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2585 - new section about `Daemons'
2586 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2587 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2588 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2589 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2590 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2591 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2592 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2593 * SGML source code included in package
2594 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2596 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2598 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2601 - completely reworked structure
2602 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2603 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2604 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2605 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2606 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2607 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2608 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2609 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2610 - mention "orphaned packages"
2611 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2612 distributions' policy
2613 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2614 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2615 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2616 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2617 - added section about arch spec strings
2618 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2619 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2620 - added section about "menus"
2621 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2622 the new documentation policy soon
2623 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2624 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2626 - added section about editors and pagers
2627 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2628 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2629 - added section about device files
2630 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2631 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2632 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2634 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2635 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2636 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2637 - Added new section about obsolete names
2638 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2639 * Fixed package's description
2641 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2643 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2647 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2649 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2652 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2653 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2654 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2656 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2658 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2661 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2662 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2664 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2665 and upload it "byhand" too.
2667 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2669 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2673 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2674 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2675 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2676 functionality must not have the same name.
2677 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2678 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2679 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2680 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2681 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2682 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2683 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2685 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2686 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2687 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2688 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2689 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2690 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2691 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2692 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2695 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2697 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2699 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2701 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2702 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2703 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2704 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2705 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2708 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2710 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2712 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2714 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2715 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2716 description of deb file format.
2717 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2718 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2720 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2722 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2723 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2725 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2727 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2729 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2730 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2731 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2732 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2733 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2734 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2735 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2736 packages in section on Procedure
2737 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2738 a package maintainer
2739 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2740 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2741 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2743 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2744 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2745 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2746 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2747 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2748 on various shlib files
2749 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2750 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2751 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2753 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2755 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2757 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2758 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2759 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2761 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2762 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2763 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2764 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2765 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2767 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2769 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2771 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2773 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2775 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2776 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2777 compatibility go in contrib.
2779 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2780 instructions in policy manual.
2781 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2784 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2786 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2788 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2789 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2790 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2791 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2793 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2794 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2797 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2799 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2801 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2802 * More detail about changelog format names.
2804 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2805 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2809 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2811 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2813 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2815 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2817 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2819 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2821 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2823 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2824 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2825 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2827 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2829 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2831 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2833 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2835 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2839 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100