1 debian-policy (3.8.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
7 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
10 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
11 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
12 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
13 and distribution license' (three times).
14 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
15 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
20 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
22 Proposed by Santiago Vila
23 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
30 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
31 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
32 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
35 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
37 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
38 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
42 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
43 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
46 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
48 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
49 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
52 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
54 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
55 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
58 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
60 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
61 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
66 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
67 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
71 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
72 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
73 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
74 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
75 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
76 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
77 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
78 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
79 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
80 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
81 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
82 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
83 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
84 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
85 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
86 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
87 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
88 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
89 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
90 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
91 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
92 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
93 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
94 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
95 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
96 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
97 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
98 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
99 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
100 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
102 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200
104 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
108 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
110 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
111 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
115 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
118 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
119 Wording: Steve Langasek.
120 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
121 Seconded: Julien Cristau
122 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
125 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
126 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
127 Seconded: Russ Allbery
128 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
131 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
132 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
133 Seconded: Russ Allbery
135 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
136 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
137 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
138 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
139 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
140 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
141 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
142 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
145 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
146 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
147 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
148 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
149 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
150 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
151 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
153 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
154 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
155 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
156 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
157 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
158 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
159 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
162 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
163 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
164 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
165 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
166 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
168 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
171 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
172 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
175 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
176 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
179 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
181 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
184 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
188 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
189 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
193 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
194 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
198 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
199 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
202 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
203 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
205 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
206 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
211 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
212 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
216 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
217 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
221 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
222 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
226 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
227 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
231 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
232 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
236 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
237 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
238 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
239 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
240 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
241 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
242 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
243 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
244 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
245 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
246 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
247 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
248 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
249 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
250 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
252 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
253 Source field descriptions.
254 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
255 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
256 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
257 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
258 description says otherwise.
260 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
262 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
266 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
269 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
270 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
272 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
273 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
277 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
278 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
282 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
283 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
287 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
288 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
289 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
290 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
294 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
295 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
296 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
297 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
298 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
300 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
301 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
305 * Add myself to Uploaders.
308 * Add myself to Uploaders.
309 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
311 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
312 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
313 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
315 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
317 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
320 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
325 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
327 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
329 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
330 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
334 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
335 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
337 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
339 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
340 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
344 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
345 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
349 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
350 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
352 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
354 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
355 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
357 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
359 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
360 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
361 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
364 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
365 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
369 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
370 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
373 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
375 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
376 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
377 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
378 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
379 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
380 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
381 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
382 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
383 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
384 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
385 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
386 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
387 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
388 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
389 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
390 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
391 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
392 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
393 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
394 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
395 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
396 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
397 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
398 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
399 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
400 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
401 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
402 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
403 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
404 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
406 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
407 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
408 links was completed long ago.
409 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
411 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
413 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
416 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
418 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
420 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
423 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
424 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
425 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
426 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
427 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
428 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
429 Millan (Closes: #209008).
430 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
431 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
433 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
435 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
437 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
438 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
439 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
440 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
441 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
442 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
443 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
445 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
446 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
447 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
448 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
450 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
451 Küster (Closes: #403391).
452 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
453 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
454 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
455 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
456 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
457 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
461 Closes: #186700, #458910
462 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
463 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
466 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
467 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
468 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
469 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
470 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
471 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
472 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
475 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
476 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
478 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
479 * Add an md5sums control file.
480 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
481 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
482 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
483 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
484 currently part of policy.
485 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
486 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
487 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
490 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
492 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
495 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
496 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
497 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
498 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
499 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
500 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
501 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
502 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
503 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
504 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
505 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
506 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
507 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
508 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
509 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
511 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
513 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
514 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
515 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
517 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
518 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
519 list?" (Closes: #412634).
520 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
521 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
522 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
523 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
524 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
525 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
526 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
527 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
528 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
529 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
530 debconf specification.
531 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
532 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
534 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
536 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
539 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
540 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
541 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
542 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
544 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
546 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
547 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
548 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
549 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
550 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
552 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
553 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
554 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
555 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
556 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
557 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
558 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
559 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
560 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
561 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
562 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
563 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
564 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
565 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
566 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
567 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
569 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
571 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
572 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
573 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
574 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
575 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
576 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
577 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
578 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
580 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
582 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
585 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
586 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
587 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
588 Polo (Closes: #372497).
589 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
590 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
592 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
593 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
594 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
595 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
596 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
597 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
598 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
599 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
600 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
601 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
603 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
604 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
605 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
606 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
607 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
608 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
610 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
612 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
615 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
616 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
617 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
619 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
620 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
622 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
624 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
627 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
628 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
629 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
630 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
631 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
632 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
633 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
634 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
635 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
637 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
638 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
639 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
640 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
641 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
642 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
643 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
644 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
645 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
646 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
647 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
650 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
652 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
655 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
656 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
657 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
658 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
659 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
660 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
661 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
662 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
663 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
664 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
665 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
666 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
667 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
668 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
669 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
670 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
671 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
672 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
673 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
674 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
675 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
676 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
677 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
678 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
679 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
680 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
681 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
683 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
684 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
685 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
686 Hess (Closes: #362247).
687 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
688 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
689 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
690 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
691 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
692 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
693 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
694 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
695 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
696 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
697 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
698 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
700 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
701 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
703 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
704 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
705 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
706 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
707 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
708 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
709 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
710 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
711 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
712 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
713 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
715 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
717 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
721 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
722 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
723 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
724 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
725 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
726 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
727 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
728 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
729 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
730 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
731 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
732 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
734 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
735 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
736 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
737 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
738 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
739 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
740 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
741 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
742 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
743 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
744 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
745 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
746 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
747 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
748 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
749 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
750 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
751 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
752 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
755 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
757 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
760 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
761 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
762 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
764 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
765 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
766 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
767 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
769 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
771 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
775 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
776 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
777 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
778 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
779 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
780 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
781 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
782 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
783 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
785 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
786 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
787 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
789 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
790 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
791 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
792 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
793 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
794 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
795 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
797 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
798 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
799 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
800 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
802 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
803 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
804 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
805 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
806 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
807 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
808 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
809 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
811 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
812 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
813 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
814 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
815 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
816 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
817 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
818 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
819 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
820 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
821 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
822 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
823 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
824 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
825 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
826 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
827 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
829 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
831 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
834 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
835 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
836 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
837 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
838 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
839 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
840 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
841 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
842 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
844 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
845 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
846 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
847 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
848 this section. closes: Bug#248618
849 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
850 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
851 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
852 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
853 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
854 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
855 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
856 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
857 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
858 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
859 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
860 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
863 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
864 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
867 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
868 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
869 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
871 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
872 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
873 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
874 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
875 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
876 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
878 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
879 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
881 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
882 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
883 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
884 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
885 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
886 Closes: #185943, #237049
888 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
890 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
896 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
897 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
898 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
899 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
900 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
901 running. closes: Bug#187250
902 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
903 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
904 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
905 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
906 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
907 user closes: Bug#176506
909 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
911 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
915 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
916 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
917 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
918 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
919 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
920 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
921 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
922 deb-building toolchain.
923 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
924 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
925 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
926 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
927 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
928 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
929 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
930 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
931 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
932 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
933 sections about changelog files.
935 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
936 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
937 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
938 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
939 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
940 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
942 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
943 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
944 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
945 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
946 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
947 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
948 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
949 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
950 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
951 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
952 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
953 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
954 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
955 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
956 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
957 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
958 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
959 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
960 for the restructuring
962 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
964 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
969 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
970 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
971 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
972 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
973 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
974 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
976 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
977 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
978 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
979 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
980 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
981 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
982 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
984 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
985 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
986 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
987 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
989 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
991 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
995 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
996 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
997 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
998 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
999 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1001 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1002 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1003 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1004 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1006 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1007 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1008 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1009 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1010 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1011 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1012 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1013 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1014 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1015 offtopic stuff, too.
1016 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1017 script should start it, closes: #60979
1018 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1019 "should", closes: #170019
1020 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1021 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1022 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1023 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1024 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1025 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1026 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1027 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1030 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1032 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1036 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1037 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1038 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1039 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1040 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1041 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1042 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1043 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1045 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1046 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1047 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1048 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1049 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1050 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1051 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1052 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1053 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1055 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1056 file, closes: Bug#65764
1058 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1060 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1063 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1064 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1065 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1066 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1067 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1068 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1069 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1070 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1071 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1072 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1073 details. closes: Bug#133030
1074 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1075 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1076 parts of Bug#161455.
1078 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1080 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1083 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1084 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1085 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1086 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1087 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1088 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1089 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1090 not. closes: Bug#139820
1091 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1092 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1093 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1094 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1095 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1096 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1097 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1098 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1099 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1100 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1102 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1104 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1105 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1106 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1107 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1108 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1109 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1110 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1111 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1112 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1113 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1114 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1115 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1116 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1117 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1118 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1119 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1120 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1121 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1122 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1123 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1125 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1126 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1127 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1128 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1129 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1130 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1131 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1133 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1134 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1135 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1136 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1137 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1138 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1139 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1140 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1141 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1143 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1145 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1148 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1149 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1150 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1151 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1152 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1153 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1154 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1155 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1156 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1157 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1158 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1159 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1160 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1161 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1162 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1163 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1164 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1165 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1166 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1167 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1168 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1169 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1171 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1173 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1176 medium, high, emergency.
1177 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1178 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1179 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1180 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1181 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1184 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1185 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1186 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1188 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1189 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1190 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1191 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1192 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1193 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1194 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1197 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1199 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1202 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1203 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1204 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1206 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1207 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1208 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1209 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1210 debian/rules to do this
1211 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1212 patches are incorporated upstream
1213 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1214 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1215 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1216 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1217 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1218 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1220 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1221 system closes: Bug#91249
1222 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1223 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1224 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1225 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1226 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1227 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1228 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1229 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1230 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1231 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1232 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1233 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1234 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1236 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1238 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1241 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1242 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1243 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1245 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1246 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1247 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1249 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1252 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1254 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1257 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1258 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1259 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1260 package for the time being
1261 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1262 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1263 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1264 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1265 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1266 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1267 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1268 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1269 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1270 Build-Depends arch syntax
1271 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1273 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1274 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1276 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1277 from policy maintenance duties.
1278 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1279 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1281 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1283 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1287 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1289 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1292 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1293 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1294 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1295 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1296 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1297 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1298 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1299 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1300 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1301 minor version number for this
1302 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1303 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1304 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1305 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1306 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1307 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1308 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1309 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1310 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1312 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1314 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1317 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1318 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1319 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1320 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1322 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1324 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1325 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1326 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1327 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1328 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1329 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1330 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1331 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1332 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1333 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1334 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1335 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1336 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1337 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1338 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1339 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1342 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1344 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1347 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1349 * Document the Enhances relationship
1350 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1351 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1352 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1353 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1354 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1355 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1357 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1359 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1360 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1361 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1362 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1364 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1365 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1366 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1367 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1368 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1370 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1372 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1375 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1376 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1378 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1379 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1380 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1381 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1382 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1383 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1384 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1385 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1386 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1388 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1390 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1392 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1395 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1396 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1397 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1398 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1399 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1400 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1401 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1402 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1403 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1404 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1405 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1406 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1407 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1408 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1409 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1410 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1411 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1412 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1413 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1414 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1415 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1417 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1418 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1420 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1422 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1425 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1426 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1427 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1428 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1429 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1430 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1431 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1432 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1433 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1434 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1435 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1436 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1437 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1438 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1439 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1440 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1441 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1442 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1443 list closes: Bug#53756
1444 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1445 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1446 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1447 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1448 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1449 policy closes: Bug#53760
1450 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1451 policy closes: Bug#53761
1452 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1453 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1454 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1455 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1456 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1457 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1458 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1459 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1460 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1461 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1462 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1464 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1465 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1466 to install with older fileutils.
1467 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1468 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1469 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1470 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1472 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1473 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1475 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1477 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1480 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1482 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1484 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1487 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1489 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1492 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1495 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1497 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1499 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1501 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1504 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1506 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1508 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1511 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1512 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1513 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1514 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1515 directoried (closes: #41547)
1516 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1517 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1518 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1519 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1520 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1521 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1522 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1523 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1524 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1525 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1526 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1528 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1529 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1530 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1531 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1532 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1533 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1534 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1536 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1537 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1538 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1539 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1541 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1543 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1545 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1546 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1548 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1550 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1553 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1555 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1557 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1560 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1562 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1563 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1564 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1565 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1566 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1567 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1568 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1569 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1570 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1571 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1572 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1573 this closes: Bug#38612
1574 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1575 before. closes: Bug#40864
1577 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1579 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1582 officially uploaded.
1583 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1585 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1586 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1587 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1589 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1590 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1591 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1592 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1593 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1594 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1596 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1597 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1598 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1600 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1602 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1603 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1604 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1605 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1606 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1608 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1610 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1613 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1614 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1615 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1616 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1617 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1618 there). closes: Bug#34233
1619 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1620 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1621 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1622 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1623 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1625 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1627 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1630 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1631 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1632 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1635 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1636 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1637 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1638 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1639 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1642 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1643 number. closes: BUG#25911
1645 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1646 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1647 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1648 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1649 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1650 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1652 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1653 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1654 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1657 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1658 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1659 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1661 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1662 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1663 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1664 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1666 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1667 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1668 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1670 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1672 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1673 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1674 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1675 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1676 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1677 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1678 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1679 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1682 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1684 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1685 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1688 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1690 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1694 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1696 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1699 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1700 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1701 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1702 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1703 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1704 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1705 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1707 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1708 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1710 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1712 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1714 * non-maintainer release
1715 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1716 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1718 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1719 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1720 * no content changes
1721 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1723 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1725 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1729 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1731 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1735 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1736 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1737 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1739 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1740 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1742 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1743 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1744 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1745 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1747 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1748 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1749 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1750 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1751 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1752 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1753 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1755 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1756 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1757 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1760 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1761 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1762 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1764 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1765 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1766 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1768 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1769 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1771 * New version numbering scheme:
1773 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1774 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1775 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1778 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1779 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1780 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1781 differ between the manuals.
1783 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1784 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1785 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1786 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1788 * Packaging changes:
1790 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1791 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1793 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1795 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1797 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1801 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1802 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1803 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1805 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1806 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1809 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1810 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1811 file extension as the referenced file
1813 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1814 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1816 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1817 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1818 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1819 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1822 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1823 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1824 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1826 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1827 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1828 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1829 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1832 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1833 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1836 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1837 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1838 reasonable default configuration
1840 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1841 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1842 by all news servers and clients
1844 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1845 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1846 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1847 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1848 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1850 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1851 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1854 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1856 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1857 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1859 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1862 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1863 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1865 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1866 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1868 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1870 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1872 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1875 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1876 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1877 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1879 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1881 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1882 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1883 * Don't use debstd anymore
1885 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1887 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1890 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1891 contrib/non-free policy
1892 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1893 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1894 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1895 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1896 - new section about `Daemons'
1897 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1898 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1899 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1900 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1901 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1902 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1903 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1904 * SGML source code included in package
1905 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1907 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1909 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1912 - completely reworked structure
1913 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1914 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1915 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1916 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1917 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1918 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1919 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1920 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1921 - mention "orphaned packages"
1922 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1923 distributions' policy
1924 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1925 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1926 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1927 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1928 - added section about arch spec strings
1929 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1930 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1931 - added section about "menus"
1932 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1933 the new documentation policy soon
1934 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1935 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1937 - added section about editors and pagers
1938 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1939 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1940 - added section about device files
1941 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1942 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1943 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1945 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1946 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1947 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1948 - Added new section about obsolete names
1949 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1950 * Fixed package's description
1952 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1954 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1958 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1960 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1962 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1963 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1964 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1965 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1967 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1969 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1972 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1973 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1975 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1976 and upload it "byhand" too.
1978 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1980 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1984 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1985 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1986 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1987 functionality must not have the same name.
1988 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1989 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1990 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1991 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1992 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1993 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1994 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1996 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1997 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1998 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1999 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2000 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2001 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2002 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2003 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2006 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2008 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2010 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2012 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2013 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2014 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2015 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2016 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2019 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2021 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2023 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2025 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2026 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2027 description of deb file format.
2028 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2029 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2031 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2033 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2034 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2036 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2038 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2040 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2041 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2042 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2043 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2044 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2045 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2046 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2047 packages in section on Procedure
2048 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2049 a package maintainer
2050 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2051 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2052 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2054 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2055 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2056 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2057 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2058 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2059 on various shlib files
2060 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2061 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2062 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2064 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2066 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2068 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2069 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2070 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2072 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2073 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2074 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2075 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2076 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2078 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2080 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2082 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2084 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2086 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2087 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2088 compatibility go in contrib.
2090 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2091 instructions in policy manual.
2092 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2095 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2097 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2099 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2100 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2101 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2102 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2104 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2105 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2108 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2110 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2112 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2113 * More detail about changelog format names.
2115 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2116 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2120 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2122 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2124 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2126 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2128 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2130 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2132 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2134 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2135 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2136 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2138 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2140 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2142 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2144 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2146 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2150 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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