[debian/debian-policy.git] / debian / changelog

debian-policy (3.5.4.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
    3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
    merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
  * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
    3.0.0 onwards
  * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2

 --

debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail  closes: Bug#42052
  * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy       closes: Bug#83977
  * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
    grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
    Julian's fixes:
  * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
  * Fixed the confusing self referential language.   closes: Bug#85503
  * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
                                                     closes: Bug#86436
  * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
                                                     closes: Bug#87233

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500

debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
                                    closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
  * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
  * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
    package for the time being
  * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
  * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
  * Corrected GPL name and location         closes: Bug#88788, #93047
  * Correct bug severities                          closes: Bug#91276
  * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
  * Rename all .text files as .txt
  * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy                 closes: Bug#87007
  * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation  closes: Bug#88651
  * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing        closes: Bug#87828
    Build-Depends arch syntax
  * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example  closes: Bug#87711
    configuration files
  * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
    the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
    version.
  * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
    from policy maintenance duties. 
  * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
    Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com>        closes: Bug#84236

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500

debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment             closes: Bug#83069

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000

debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed deprecated virtual package names        closes: Bug#84641
  * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
  * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
  * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
                            closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
                            closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
                            closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
                            closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
  * No longer include the old proposal document     closes: Bug#84079
  * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
    minor version number for this
  * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
    correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
  * Clarify error conditions for package installation
                                       (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
  * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
    accident!)                 (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
  * Clean version numbering string     (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
  * Install HTML version of FHS                     closes: Bug#83487
  * Removed bashism from debian/rules

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000

debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
    peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
    updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
    magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
  * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
    <cts@nikocity.de> 
  * Added mention of  DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist. 
                                                    closes: Bug#83924
  * Fixed some typos.                               closes: Bug#83960
  * Policy now mentions preinst scripts.            closes: Bug#80342
  * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
    management system (debconf)                     closes: Bug#80347
  * Yet more typo fixes                             closes: Bug#82743
  * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
    xutils                                          closes: Bug#82966
  * Fixed the date in the virtual package list      closes: Bug#83438
  * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
    to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>        closes: Bug#83065
  * Corrected reference to the mime policy.         closes: Bug#79891
  * Corrected reference to the menu policy.         closes: Bug#75925
  * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
    illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
    informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
    potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
                                                    closes: Bug#80506

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600

debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
    root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
    this version.
  * Document the Enhances relationship
  * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
    maintain a package.                            closes: Bug#51879
  * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
    policy.                                        closes: Bug#53496
  * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
    in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant) 
                                                   closes: Bug#53700
  * Clarified update-rc.d stuff                    closes: Bug#55048

  * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
    of this is not relevant to policy anyway.      closes: Bug#55730
  * makedev--> MAKEDEV                             closes: Bug#57154
  * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
                                                   closes: Bug#59403
  * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
    that deals with copyright files.               closes: Bug#65765
  * init script configuration variables            closes: Bug#66912
  * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
    as conflicting                                 closes: Bug#76028

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600

debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
  * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
    change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
    going to be buggy.
                                                    closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
  * Fixed typo in menu-policy.                      closes: Bug#70442
  * Fixed typo in policy manual                     closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
  * Removed extraneous > from policy                closes: Bug#77645
  * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist          closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
  * Fixed spelling of utility                       closes: Bug#82458
  * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
    non-US/{main,contrib}                          closes: Bug#69229
  * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
                                                   closes: Bug#77404
  * Fixed outdated references to the FHS.          closes: Bug#77650

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600

debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
    not" policy.                                        closes: Bug#53759 
  * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy  This is only a
    clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
    policy.                                             closes: Bug#64437
  * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles.   closes: Bug#61308
  * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/     closes: Bug#62668
  * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout  closes: Bug#62946
  * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/  closes: Bug#62947
  * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/            closes: Bug#62948
  * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/                               closes: Bug#64516
  * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package            closes: Bug#64004
  * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package            closes: Bug#64006
  * new virtual package time-daemon                     closes: Bug#69031
  * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml                   closes: Bug#69424
  * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml        closes: Bug#69426
  * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
    incorrect.                                          closes: Bug#69487
  * [PATCH] more corrections                            closes: Bug#69670
  * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition      closes: Bug#46522
  * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n         closes: Bug#48247
  * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
                                                        closes: Bug#50832
  * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
    telnet-client                                       closes: Bug#58759

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500

debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
  * We have had doc-base support for a while now.       closes: Bug#15709
  * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
    behaviour.                                          closes: Bug#17369
  * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles       closes: Bug#22935
  * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
    fixed usage for dpkg-divert                         closes: Bug#29522
  * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement 
    on dependancies and priorities                      closes: Bug#39398
  * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
  * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal       closes: Bug#43787
  * Fixed missing </chapt> tag.                         closes: Bug#51091
  * Correct typo in section 2.3.5                       closes: Bug#52225
  * Documented that the library before the symlink hack 
    (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work) 
    is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg.    closes: Bug#53405
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver" 
    alternative                                         closes: Bug#53755
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
    list                                                closes: Bug#53756
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator" 
     virtual package and alternative                    closes: Bug#53757
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
     virtual package and alternative                    closes: Bug#53758 
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults 
    policy                                              closes: Bug#53760 
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif 
    policy                                              closes: Bug#53761
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages 
    that use X                                          closes: Bug#53762 
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages    closes: Bug#53763
  * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since 
    that is where they belong, really.                  closes: Bug#54777
  * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals.              closes: Bug#56407
  * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where 
    was it defined before anyway?)                      closes: Bug#56692
  * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
  * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
    dpkg-gencontrol.                                    closes: Bug#58771
  * Other changes:
  * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
  * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
    to install with older fileutils.
  * Installed FHS version 2.1
  * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
  * Added FHS details to copyright file
  * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
    file. 
  * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
    dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500

debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
    not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this. 

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600

debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
  * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000


debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
  * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
    #50502)
  * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000

debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
    description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000

debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
    #45561, #42447, #48570)
  * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
  * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
  * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
    directoried (closes: #41547)
  * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
  * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
    suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
  * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
  * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
  * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
  * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
  * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
  * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
    package criteria (closes: #45318)
  * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
    #41829)
  * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
  * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
  * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
  * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
  * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
  * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
  * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
    #40766, #40767)
  * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
  * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
  * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
  * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
    (closes: #17621)
  * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
    #19179)
  * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
    #41095)
  * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
  * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Thu,  4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000

debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
  * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500

debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * A few typos and omissions corrected
  * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
    list. 
  * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
  * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
    packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
    .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
    is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
  * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
    while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
  * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
  * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
  * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
  * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
    this closes: Bug#38612
  * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
    before. closes: Bug#40864

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500

debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
    officially uploaded.
  * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
    .deb packages)
  * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
  * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
    Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote). 
    closes: Bug#21969
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
    /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
    footnote. closes: Bug#28747
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages 
    closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate. 
    closes: Bug# 37342
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
    Window System) closes: Bug#38212
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
    closes: Bug#37713
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
    closes: Bug#37389
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
    Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
    scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
  * Updated the upgrading checklist.
  * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest 

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500

debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
  * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
    closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
  * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
  * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
    document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
    there). closes: Bug#34233
  * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
  * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
  * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
    /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
  * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500

debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
    to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
    become Section 4.  The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
    Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
    accordingly. 

    What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
    subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
    placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
    4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9.  All subsections of the
    current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
    in the number gap. 

    This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
    number. closes: BUG#25911
  
  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
    compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
    HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
    /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
    symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
    conventions. closes: BUG#21185

  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
    documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
    main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer). 
    closes: BUG#7890
  
  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
    to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
    /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
  
  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
    architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
    where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
    we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
  
  * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
    the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
    managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents. 
  
  * Make the package optional, not extra. 
  
  * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
    and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
    converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
    I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
    process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
    predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
    some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
    paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
    it is, really). 
  
  * Re did the control files, making them more robust
  
  * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
    by putting in a layer of abstractions. 


 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600

debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>

 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>  Sat,  5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100

debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
  * policy.sgml:    some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
  * policy.sgml:    s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
  * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
    sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
  * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
  * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
    current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
    or date anywhere
  * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
  * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)

 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>  Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100

debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * non-maintainer release
  * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
    important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
    annoying.)
  * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
    but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
  * no content changes
  * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner

 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400

debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Orphaned package

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200

debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:

    - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
          and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
      + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
  
    - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
      + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
  
    - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
      + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
        symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
        (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)

    - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
      + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
      + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
        as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
      + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
        and restart options and to comply with the console message
        standard (fixes:bug#19216)

    - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
      + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
        the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
        package.
  
    - Updated section 4.9 Games:
      + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
        (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
  
    - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
    - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
      a recompiled manual uses the same release date

  * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
    - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'

  * New version numbering scheme:
  
    - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
      manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
      the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
      scheme.
    
    - The first three digits of the version number specify the
      `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
      change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
      differ between the manuals. 
  
      If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
      have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
      have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
      `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
  
  * Packaging changes:
  
    - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
      package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.

    - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
  
 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200

debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:

    - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
      + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
      + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
        interpreter
      + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
        (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
        the directory

    - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
      + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
        file extension as the referenced file

    - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
      + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*

    - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
      + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
        start, stop, restart, force-reload
      + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
        the service

    - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
      + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
        be installed into /etc/cron.d

    - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
      + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
        (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
        has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
        obsolete)

    - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
      + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
        handled

    - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
      + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
        reasonable default configuration

    - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
      + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
        by all news servers and clients

    - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
      + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
        as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
      + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
        against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library

    - Updated section 4.9 Games:
      + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
        non-X games

    - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)

  * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
    - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'

  * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
    changelog file

  * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the 
    Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz

  * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
    online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)

  * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
  
 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100

debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
    - X library package is now called xlib6g
  * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
    - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
      lambdamoo-server
  * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
    (fixes #13790)
  * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
    the draft official policy (which is not the case)
  * Don't use debstd anymore
  
 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200

debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
    - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
      contrib/non-free policy
    - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
    - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
    - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
      maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
    - new section about `Daemons' 
    - updated section about `Configuration files' 
    - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile 
    - fixed typos and grammatical errors
  * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
    - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
  * Paper about libc6 migration:
    - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch! 
  * SGML source code included in package
  * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
  
 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Mon,  2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200

debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
    - completely reworked structure 
    - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
      releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual 
    - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
    - removed all those ugly footnotes 
    - new example for "reload" in section about console messages 
    - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793) 
    - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual 
    - rewrote abstract and section introductions 
    - mention "orphaned packages" 
    - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
      distributions' policy 
    - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel 
    - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages 
    - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US 
    - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257) 
    - added section about arch spec strings 
    - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local) 
    - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs 
    - added section about "menus" 
    - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
      the new documentation policy soon 
    - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024) 
    - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
      #11008)  
    - added section about editors and pagers 
    - added note about Package priorities and dependencies 
    - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814) 
    - added section about device files 
    - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129) 
    - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717) 
    - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
      etc.)
  * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
    - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
      compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
    - Added new section about obsolete names
  * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
  * Fixed package's description
 
 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200

debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200

debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
  * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
  * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
    by Kai Henningsen (#7076)

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200

debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
  * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
  * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
    "byhand".
  * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
    and upload it "byhand" too.

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200

debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial Release.
  * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
  * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
  * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
  * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
    functionality must not have the same name.
  * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
    changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
  * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
    as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
  * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
  * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
  * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
    for libraries)
  * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
    to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
    <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
  * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
    "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
  * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
    "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
  * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
    fixes bug #6130.

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100

debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;

  * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and 
  Programmer's manual
  * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
  * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
  * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
  a package into. (Guy Maor)
  * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in 
  Programmer 6.1. 

 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>  Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600

debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
  
  * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
  Guy Maor and others   
  * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
  * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for 
  description of deb file format.
  * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2 
  * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for 
  shared libraries.
  * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
  (Bug #2481)
  * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
  * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change

 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600

debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;

  * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
  * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
  * Added section headings for copyright criteria
  * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
  * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and 
    static libraries. (Bug #5299)
  * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted 
    packages in section on Procedure
  * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming 
    a package maintainer
  * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
  * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
    frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.

  * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
  * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
  * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
    the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
  * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
    on various shlib files
  * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
  * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared 
    Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)

 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>  Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600

debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;

  * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
    and can't easily be made to work reliably).
  * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.

  * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
  * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
  * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
  * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
  * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.

  * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>  Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100

debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;

  * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).

  * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
  * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
    compatibility go in contrib.

  * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
    instructions in policy manual.
  * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
    package in contrib.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100

debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;

  * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
  * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
  * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
  * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.

  * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
  * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
  * Typo fixes.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100

debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;

  * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
  * More detail about changelog format names.

  * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
  * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
  * Typos corrected.
  * Released.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100

debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;

  * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100

debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;

  * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.

  * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.

  * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
  * More verbosity about netiquette.
  * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100

debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;

  * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100

debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;

  * Draft releases.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100