1 debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
4 for the help. Closes: #769219
6 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:55:55 +0100
8 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
11 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
12 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
14 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
15 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
16 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
17 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
18 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
19 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
20 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
21 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
22 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
24 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
26 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
27 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
33 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
34 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
38 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
39 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
43 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
44 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
48 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
50 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
56 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
58 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
61 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
65 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
66 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
68 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
70 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
71 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
75 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
76 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
77 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
80 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
81 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
83 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
86 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
87 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
88 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
89 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
91 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
96 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
99 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
103 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
104 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
109 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
110 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
114 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
115 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
116 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
117 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
121 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
122 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
123 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
126 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
127 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
131 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
132 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
134 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
136 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
137 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
138 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
142 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
143 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
147 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
148 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
150 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
152 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
153 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
154 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
157 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
158 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
159 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
162 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
163 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
164 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
165 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
167 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
168 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
169 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
170 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
171 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
172 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
173 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
174 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
175 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
176 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
177 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
178 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
180 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
181 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
182 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
183 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
185 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
187 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
189 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
190 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
191 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
193 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
194 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
195 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
196 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
201 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
202 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
207 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
211 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
212 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
213 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
214 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
218 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
219 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
224 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
225 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
226 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
229 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
230 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
231 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
234 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
235 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
240 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
242 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
245 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
246 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
247 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
248 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
250 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
251 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
252 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
253 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
254 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
255 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
256 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
257 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
258 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
259 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
260 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
261 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
262 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
263 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
264 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
265 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
266 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
268 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
269 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
270 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
271 good to know which version one is looking at.
272 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
273 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
274 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
275 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
276 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
277 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
278 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
280 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
281 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
282 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
283 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
284 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
286 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
287 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
288 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
290 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
291 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
292 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
293 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
295 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
297 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
301 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
302 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
303 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
304 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
305 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
306 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
307 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
308 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
309 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
310 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
315 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
316 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
321 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
322 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
323 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
326 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
328 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
329 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
333 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
334 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
337 Closes: #620870, #532120
338 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
339 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
344 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
345 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
346 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
350 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
351 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
352 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
353 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
354 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
356 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
357 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
358 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
359 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
360 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
361 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
362 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
363 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
364 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
365 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
366 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
367 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
368 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
369 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
370 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
371 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
373 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
375 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
376 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
377 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
378 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
379 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
380 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
381 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
382 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
383 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
384 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
387 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
389 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
390 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
391 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
392 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
397 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
398 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
400 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
401 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
402 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
403 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
406 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
408 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
412 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
413 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
414 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
417 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
418 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
419 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
421 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
422 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
428 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
429 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
430 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
433 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
434 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
439 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
440 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
441 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
442 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
445 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
446 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
447 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
450 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
451 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
456 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
458 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
461 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
464 Closes: #459868, #581011
465 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
466 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
468 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
470 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
471 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
473 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
476 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
478 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
480 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
481 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
485 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
486 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
489 Closes: #501930, #593909
490 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
491 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
495 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
496 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
497 machine. (Closes: #591857)
498 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
499 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
500 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
501 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
502 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
503 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
504 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
505 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
506 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
507 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
509 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
510 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
511 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
512 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
513 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
514 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
515 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
516 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
517 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
518 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
519 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
520 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
521 than the version in oldstable.
522 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
523 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
524 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
525 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
526 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
527 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
528 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
529 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
530 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
531 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
532 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
533 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
534 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
535 package. (Closes: #609160)
537 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
539 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
542 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
547 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
548 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
550 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
552 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
553 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
555 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
557 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
558 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
561 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
562 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
563 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
567 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
568 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
572 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
573 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
577 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
578 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
580 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
582 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
583 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
585 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
587 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
588 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
593 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
594 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
599 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
600 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
604 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
605 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
606 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
609 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
610 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
614 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
615 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
616 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
619 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
620 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
624 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
625 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
627 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
629 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
631 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
632 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
633 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
634 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
635 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
636 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
637 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
638 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
639 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
641 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
642 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
643 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
644 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
645 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
646 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
648 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
650 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
656 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
659 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
660 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
661 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
662 and distribution license' (three times).
663 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
664 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
669 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
671 Proposed by Santiago Vila
672 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
674 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
675 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
679 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
680 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
684 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
685 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
686 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
687 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
688 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
689 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
691 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
692 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
694 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
696 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
697 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
698 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
699 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
700 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
702 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
703 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
706 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
708 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
709 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
712 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
714 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
715 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
716 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
719 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
720 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
725 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
726 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
727 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
730 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
731 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
735 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
736 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
737 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
741 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
742 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
743 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
746 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
747 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
748 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
752 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
753 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
755 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
757 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
758 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
759 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
760 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
761 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
762 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
763 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
764 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
765 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
766 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
767 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
768 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
769 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
770 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
771 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
772 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
773 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
774 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
775 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
776 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
777 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
778 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
779 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
780 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
781 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
782 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
783 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
784 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
785 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
786 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
787 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
788 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
790 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
792 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
794 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
798 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
800 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
801 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
805 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
808 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
809 Wording: Steve Langasek.
810 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
811 Seconded: Julien Cristau
812 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
815 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
816 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
817 Seconded: Russ Allbery
818 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
821 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
822 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
823 Seconded: Russ Allbery
825 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
826 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
827 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
828 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
829 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
830 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
831 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
832 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
833 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
835 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
836 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
837 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
838 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
839 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
840 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
841 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
842 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
843 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
844 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
845 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
846 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
847 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
848 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
849 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
850 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
852 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
853 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
854 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
855 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
856 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
858 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
861 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
862 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
863 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
864 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
865 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
866 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
869 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
871 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
874 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
875 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
876 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
878 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
879 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
880 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
881 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
883 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
884 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
885 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
888 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
889 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
890 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
891 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
892 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
893 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
895 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
896 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
897 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
898 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
899 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
901 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
902 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
903 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
904 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
906 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
907 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
908 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
909 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
911 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
912 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
913 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
914 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
916 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
917 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
918 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
919 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
921 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
922 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
923 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
924 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
926 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
927 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
928 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
929 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
930 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
931 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
932 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
933 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
934 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
935 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
936 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
937 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
938 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
939 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
940 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
942 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
943 Source field descriptions.
944 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
945 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
946 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
947 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
948 description says otherwise.
950 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
952 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
956 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
957 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
958 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
959 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
960 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
962 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
963 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
964 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
965 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
967 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
968 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
969 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
970 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
972 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
973 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
974 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
975 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
977 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
978 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
979 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
980 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
984 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
985 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
986 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
987 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
988 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
990 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
991 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
992 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
993 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
995 * Add myself to Uploaders.
998 * Add myself to Uploaders.
999 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
1001 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
1002 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
1003 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
1005 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1007 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1010 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1011 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1012 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1014 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1015 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1016 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1017 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1019 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1020 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1021 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1022 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1024 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1025 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1026 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1027 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1029 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1030 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1031 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1032 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1034 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1035 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1036 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1037 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1039 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1040 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1041 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1042 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1044 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1045 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1046 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1047 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1049 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1050 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1051 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1052 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1054 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1055 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1056 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1057 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1059 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1060 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1061 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1062 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1063 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1065 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1066 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1067 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1068 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1069 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1070 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1071 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1072 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1073 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1074 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1075 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1076 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1077 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1078 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1079 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1080 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1081 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1082 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1083 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1084 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1085 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1086 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1087 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1088 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1089 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1090 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1091 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1092 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1093 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1094 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1096 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1097 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1098 links was completed long ago.
1099 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1101 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1103 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1106 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1108 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1110 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1113 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1114 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1115 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1116 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1117 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1118 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1119 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1120 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1121 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1123 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1125 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1127 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1128 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1129 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1130 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1131 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1132 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1133 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1135 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1136 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1137 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1138 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1140 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1141 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1142 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1143 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1144 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1145 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1146 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1147 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1148 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1149 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1150 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1151 Closes: #186700, #458910
1152 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1153 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1154 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1156 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1157 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1158 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1159 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1160 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1161 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1162 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1163 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1165 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1166 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1168 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1169 * Add an md5sums control file.
1170 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1171 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1172 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1173 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1174 currently part of policy.
1175 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1176 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1177 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1180 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1182 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1185 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1186 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1187 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1188 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1189 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1190 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1191 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1192 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1193 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1194 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1195 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1196 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1197 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1198 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1199 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1201 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1203 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1204 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1205 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1207 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1208 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1209 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1210 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1211 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1212 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1213 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1214 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1215 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1216 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1217 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1218 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1219 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1220 debconf specification.
1221 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1222 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1224 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1226 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1229 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1230 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1231 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1232 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1234 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1236 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1237 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1238 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1239 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1240 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1242 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1243 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1244 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1245 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1246 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1247 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1248 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1249 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1250 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1251 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1252 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1253 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1254 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1255 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1256 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1257 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1259 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1261 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1262 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1263 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1264 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1266 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1267 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1268 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1270 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1272 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1275 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1276 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1277 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1278 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1279 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1280 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1282 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1283 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1284 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1285 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1286 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1287 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1289 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1290 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1291 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1293 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1294 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1295 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1296 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1297 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1298 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1300 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1302 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1305 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1306 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1307 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1309 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1310 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1312 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1314 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1317 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1318 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1319 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1320 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1321 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1322 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1323 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1324 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1325 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1327 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1328 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1329 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1330 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1331 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1332 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1334 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1335 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1336 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1337 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1340 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1342 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1345 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1346 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1347 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1348 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1349 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1350 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1351 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1352 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1353 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1354 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1355 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1356 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1357 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1358 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1359 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1360 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1361 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1362 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1363 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1364 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1365 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1366 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1367 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1368 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1369 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1370 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1371 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1373 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1374 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1375 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1376 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1377 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1378 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1379 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1380 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1381 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1382 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1383 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1384 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1385 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1386 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1387 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1388 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1390 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1391 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1393 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1394 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1395 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1396 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1397 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1398 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1399 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1400 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1401 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1402 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1403 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1405 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1407 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1411 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1412 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1413 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1414 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1415 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1416 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1417 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1418 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1419 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1420 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1421 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1422 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1424 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1425 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1426 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1427 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1428 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1429 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1430 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1431 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1432 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1433 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1434 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1435 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1436 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1437 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1438 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1439 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1440 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1441 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1442 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1445 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1447 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1450 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1451 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1452 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1454 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1455 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1456 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1457 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1459 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1461 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1465 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1466 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1467 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1468 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1469 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1470 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1471 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1472 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1473 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1475 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1476 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1477 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1479 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1480 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1481 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1482 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1483 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1484 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1485 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1487 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1488 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1489 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1490 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1492 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1493 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1494 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1495 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1496 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1497 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1498 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1499 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1501 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1502 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1503 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1504 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1505 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1506 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1507 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1508 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1509 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1510 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1511 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1512 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1513 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1514 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1515 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1516 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1517 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1519 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1521 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1525 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1526 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1527 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1528 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1529 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1530 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1531 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1532 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1534 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1535 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1536 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1537 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1538 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1539 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1540 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1541 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1542 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1543 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1544 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1545 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1546 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1547 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1548 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1549 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1550 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1552 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1553 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1554 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1557 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1558 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1559 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1561 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1562 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1563 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1564 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1565 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1566 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1568 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1569 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1571 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1572 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1573 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1574 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1575 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1576 Closes: #185943, #237049
1578 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1580 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1586 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1587 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1588 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1589 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1590 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1591 running. closes: Bug#187250
1592 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1593 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1594 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1595 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1596 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1597 user closes: Bug#176506
1599 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1601 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1605 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1606 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1607 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1608 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1609 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1610 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1611 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1612 deb-building toolchain.
1613 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1614 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1615 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1616 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1617 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1618 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1619 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1620 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1621 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1622 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1623 sections about changelog files.
1625 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1626 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1627 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1628 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1629 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1630 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1632 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1633 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1634 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1635 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1636 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1637 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1638 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1639 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1640 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1641 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1642 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1643 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1644 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1645 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1646 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1647 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1648 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1649 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1650 for the restructuring
1652 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1654 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1659 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1660 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1661 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1662 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1663 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1664 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1666 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1667 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1668 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1669 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1670 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1671 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1672 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1674 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1675 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1676 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1677 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1679 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1681 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1685 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1686 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1687 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1688 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1689 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1691 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1692 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1693 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1694 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1696 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1697 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1698 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1699 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1700 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1701 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1702 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1703 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1704 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1705 offtopic stuff, too.
1706 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1707 script should start it, closes: #60979
1708 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1709 "should", closes: #170019
1710 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1711 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1712 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1713 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1714 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1715 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1716 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1717 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1720 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1722 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1726 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1727 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1728 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1729 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1730 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1731 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1732 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1733 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1735 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1736 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1737 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1738 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1739 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1740 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1741 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1742 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1743 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1745 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1746 file, closes: Bug#65764
1748 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1750 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1753 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1754 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1755 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1756 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1757 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1758 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1759 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1760 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1761 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1762 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1763 details. closes: Bug#133030
1764 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1765 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1766 parts of Bug#161455.
1768 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1770 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1773 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1774 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1775 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1776 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1777 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1778 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1779 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1780 not. closes: Bug#139820
1781 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1782 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1783 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1784 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1785 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1786 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1787 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1788 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1789 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1790 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1792 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1794 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1795 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1796 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1797 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1798 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1799 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1800 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1801 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1802 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1803 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1804 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1805 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1806 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1807 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1808 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1809 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1810 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1811 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1812 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1813 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1815 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1816 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1817 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1818 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1819 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1820 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1821 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1823 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1824 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1825 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1826 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1827 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1828 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1829 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1830 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1831 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1833 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1835 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1838 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1839 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1840 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1841 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1842 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1843 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1844 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1845 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1846 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1847 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1848 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1849 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1850 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1851 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1852 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1853 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1854 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1855 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1856 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1857 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1858 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1859 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1861 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1863 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1866 medium, high, emergency.
1867 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1868 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1869 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1870 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1871 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1874 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1875 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1876 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1878 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1879 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1880 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1881 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1882 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1883 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1884 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1887 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1889 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1892 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1893 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1894 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1896 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1897 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1898 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1899 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1900 debian/rules to do this
1901 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1902 patches are incorporated upstream
1903 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1904 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1905 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1906 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1907 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1908 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1910 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1911 system closes: Bug#91249
1912 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1913 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1914 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1915 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1916 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1917 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1918 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1919 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1920 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1921 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1922 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1923 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1924 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1926 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1928 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1931 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1932 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1933 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1935 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1936 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1937 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1939 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1942 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1944 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1947 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1948 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1949 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1950 package for the time being
1951 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1952 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1953 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1954 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1955 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1956 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1957 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1958 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1959 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1960 Build-Depends arch syntax
1961 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1963 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1964 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1966 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1967 from policy maintenance duties.
1968 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1969 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1971 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1973 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1977 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1979 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1982 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1983 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1984 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1985 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1986 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1987 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1988 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1989 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1990 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1991 minor version number for this
1992 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1993 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1994 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1995 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1996 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1997 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1998 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1999 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
2000 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
2002 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
2004 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2007 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2008 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2009 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2010 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2012 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2014 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2015 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2016 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2017 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2018 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2019 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2020 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2021 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2022 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2023 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2024 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2025 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2026 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2027 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2028 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2029 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2032 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2034 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2037 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2039 * Document the Enhances relationship
2040 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2041 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2042 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2043 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2044 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2045 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2047 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2049 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2050 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2051 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2052 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2054 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2055 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2056 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2057 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2058 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2060 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2062 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2065 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2066 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2068 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2069 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2070 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2071 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2072 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2073 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2074 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2075 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2076 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2078 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2080 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2082 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2085 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2086 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2087 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2088 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2089 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2090 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2091 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2092 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2093 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2094 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2095 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2096 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2097 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2098 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2099 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2100 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2101 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2102 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2103 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2104 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2105 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2107 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2108 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2110 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2112 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2115 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2116 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2117 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2118 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2119 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2120 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2121 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2122 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2123 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2124 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2125 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2126 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2127 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2128 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2129 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2130 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2131 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2132 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2133 list closes: Bug#53756
2134 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2135 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2136 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2137 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2138 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2139 policy closes: Bug#53760
2140 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2141 policy closes: Bug#53761
2142 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2143 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2144 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2145 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2146 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2147 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2148 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2149 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2150 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2151 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2152 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2154 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2155 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2156 to install with older fileutils.
2157 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2158 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2159 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2160 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2162 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2163 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2165 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2167 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2170 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2172 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2174 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2177 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2179 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2182 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2185 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2187 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2189 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2191 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2194 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2196 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2198 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2201 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2202 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2203 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2204 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2205 directoried (closes: #41547)
2206 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2207 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2208 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2209 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2210 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2211 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2212 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2213 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2214 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2215 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2216 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2218 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2219 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2220 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2221 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2222 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2223 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2224 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2226 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2227 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2228 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2229 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2231 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2233 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2235 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2236 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2238 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2240 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2243 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2245 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2247 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2250 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2252 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2253 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2254 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2255 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2256 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2257 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2258 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2259 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2260 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2261 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2262 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2263 this closes: Bug#38612
2264 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2265 before. closes: Bug#40864
2267 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2269 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2272 officially uploaded.
2273 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2275 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2276 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2277 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2279 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2280 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2281 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2282 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2283 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2284 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2286 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2287 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2288 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2290 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2292 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2293 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2294 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2295 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2296 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2298 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2300 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2303 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2304 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2305 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2306 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2307 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2308 there). closes: Bug#34233
2309 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2310 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2311 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2312 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2313 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2315 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2317 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2320 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2321 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2322 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2325 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2326 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2327 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2328 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2329 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2332 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2333 number. closes: BUG#25911
2335 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2336 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2337 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2338 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2339 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2340 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2342 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2343 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2344 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2347 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2348 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2349 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2351 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2352 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2353 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2354 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2356 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2357 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2358 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2360 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2362 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2363 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2364 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2365 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2366 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2367 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2368 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2369 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2372 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2374 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2375 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2378 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2380 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2384 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2386 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2389 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2390 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2391 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2392 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2393 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2394 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2395 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2397 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2398 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2400 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2402 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2404 * non-maintainer release
2405 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2406 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2408 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2409 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2410 * no content changes
2411 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2413 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2415 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2419 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2421 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2425 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2426 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2427 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2429 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2430 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2432 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2433 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2434 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2435 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2437 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2438 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2439 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2440 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2441 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2442 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2443 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2445 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2446 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2447 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2450 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2451 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2452 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2454 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2455 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2456 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2458 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2459 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2461 * New version numbering scheme:
2463 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2464 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2465 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2468 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2469 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2470 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2471 differ between the manuals.
2473 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2474 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2475 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2476 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2478 * Packaging changes:
2480 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2481 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2483 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2485 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2487 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2491 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2492 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2493 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2495 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2496 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2499 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2500 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2501 file extension as the referenced file
2503 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2504 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2506 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2507 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2508 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2509 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2512 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2513 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2514 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2516 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2517 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2518 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2519 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2522 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2523 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2526 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2527 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2528 reasonable default configuration
2530 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2531 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2532 by all news servers and clients
2534 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2535 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2536 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2537 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2538 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2540 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2541 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2544 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2546 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2547 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2549 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2552 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2553 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2555 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2556 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2558 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2560 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2562 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2565 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2566 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2567 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2569 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2571 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2572 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2573 * Don't use debstd anymore
2575 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2577 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2580 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2581 contrib/non-free policy
2582 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2583 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2584 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2585 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2586 - new section about `Daemons'
2587 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2588 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2589 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2590 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2591 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2592 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2593 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2594 * SGML source code included in package
2595 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2597 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2599 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2602 - completely reworked structure
2603 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2604 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2605 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2606 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2607 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2608 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2609 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2610 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2611 - mention "orphaned packages"
2612 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2613 distributions' policy
2614 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2615 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2616 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2617 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2618 - added section about arch spec strings
2619 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2620 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2621 - added section about "menus"
2622 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2623 the new documentation policy soon
2624 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2625 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2627 - added section about editors and pagers
2628 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2629 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2630 - added section about device files
2631 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2632 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2633 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2635 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2636 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2637 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2638 - Added new section about obsolete names
2639 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2640 * Fixed package's description
2642 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2644 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2648 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2650 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2653 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2654 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2655 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2657 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2659 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2662 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2663 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2665 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2666 and upload it "byhand" too.
2668 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2670 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2674 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2675 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2676 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2677 functionality must not have the same name.
2678 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2679 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2680 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2681 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2682 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2683 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2684 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2686 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2687 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2688 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2689 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2690 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2691 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2692 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2693 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2696 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2698 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2700 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2702 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2703 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2704 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2705 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2706 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2709 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2711 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2713 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2715 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2716 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2717 description of deb file format.
2718 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2719 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2721 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2723 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2724 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2726 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2728 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2730 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2731 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2732 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2733 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2734 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2735 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2736 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2737 packages in section on Procedure
2738 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2739 a package maintainer
2740 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2741 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2742 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2744 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2745 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2746 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2747 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2748 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2749 on various shlib files
2750 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2751 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2752 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2754 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2756 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2758 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2759 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2760 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2762 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2763 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2764 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2765 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2766 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2768 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2770 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2772 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2774 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2776 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2777 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2778 compatibility go in contrib.
2780 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2781 instructions in policy manual.
2782 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2785 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2787 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2789 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2790 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2791 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2792 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2794 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2795 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2798 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2800 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2802 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2803 * More detail about changelog format names.
2805 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2806 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2810 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2812 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2814 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2816 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2818 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2820 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2822 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2824 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2825 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2826 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2828 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2830 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2832 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2834 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2836 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2840 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100