1 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
4 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
8 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
9 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
11 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
13 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
14 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
18 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
19 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
21 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
23 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
24 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
28 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
29 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
33 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
34 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
36 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
38 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
39 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
41 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
43 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
44 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
45 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
48 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
49 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
53 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
54 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
57 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
59 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
60 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
61 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
62 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
63 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
64 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
65 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
66 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
67 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
68 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
69 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
70 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
71 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
72 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
73 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
74 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
75 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
76 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
77 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
78 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
79 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
80 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
81 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
82 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
83 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
84 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
85 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
86 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
87 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
88 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
90 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
91 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
92 links was completed long ago.
93 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
95 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
97 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
100 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
102 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
104 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
107 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
108 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
109 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
110 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
111 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
112 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
113 Millan (Closes: #209008).
114 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
115 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
117 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
119 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
121 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
122 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
123 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
124 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
125 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
126 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
127 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
129 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
130 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
131 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
132 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
134 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
135 Küster (Closes: #403391).
136 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
137 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
138 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
139 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
140 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
141 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
145 Closes: #186700, #458910
146 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
147 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
151 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
152 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
153 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
154 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
155 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
156 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
157 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
159 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
160 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
162 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
163 * Add an md5sums control file.
164 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
165 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
166 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
167 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
168 currently part of policy.
169 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
170 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
171 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
174 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
176 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
179 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
180 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
181 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
182 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
183 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
184 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
185 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
186 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
187 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
188 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
189 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
190 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
191 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
192 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
193 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
195 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
197 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
198 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
199 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
201 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
202 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
203 list?" (Closes: #412634).
204 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
205 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
206 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
207 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
208 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
209 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
210 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
211 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
212 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
213 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
214 debconf specification.
215 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
216 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
218 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
220 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
223 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
224 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
225 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
226 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
228 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
230 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
231 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
232 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
233 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
234 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
236 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
237 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
238 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
239 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
240 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
241 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
242 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
243 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
244 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
245 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
246 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
247 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
248 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
249 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
250 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
253 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
255 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
256 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
257 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
258 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
259 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
260 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
261 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
262 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
264 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
266 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
269 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
270 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
271 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
272 Polo (Closes: #372497).
273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
274 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
276 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
277 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
278 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
279 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
280 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
281 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
282 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
283 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
284 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
285 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
287 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
288 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
289 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
290 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
291 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
292 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
294 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
296 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
299 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
300 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
301 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
303 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
304 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
306 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
308 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
311 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
312 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
313 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
314 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
315 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
316 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
317 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
318 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
319 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
321 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
322 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
323 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
324 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
325 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
326 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
327 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
328 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
329 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
330 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
331 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
334 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
336 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
339 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
340 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
341 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
342 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
343 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
344 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
345 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
346 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
347 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
348 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
349 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
350 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
351 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
352 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
353 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
354 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
355 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
356 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
357 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
358 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
359 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
360 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
361 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
362 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
363 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
364 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
365 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
367 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
368 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
369 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
370 Hess (Closes: #362247).
371 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
372 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
373 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
374 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
375 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
376 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
377 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
378 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
379 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
380 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
381 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
382 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
384 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
385 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
387 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
388 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
389 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
390 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
391 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
392 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
393 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
394 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
395 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
396 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
397 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
399 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
401 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
405 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
406 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
407 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
408 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
409 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
410 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
411 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
412 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
413 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
414 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
415 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
416 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
418 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
419 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
420 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
421 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
422 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
423 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
424 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
425 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
426 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
427 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
428 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
429 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
430 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
431 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
432 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
433 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
434 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
435 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
436 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
439 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
441 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
444 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
445 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
446 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
448 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
449 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
450 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
451 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
453 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
455 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
459 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
460 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
461 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
462 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
463 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
464 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
465 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
466 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
467 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
469 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
470 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
471 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
473 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
474 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
475 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
476 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
477 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
478 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
479 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
481 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
482 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
483 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
484 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
486 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
487 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
488 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
489 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
490 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
491 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
492 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
493 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
495 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
496 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
497 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
498 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
499 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
500 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
501 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
502 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
503 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
504 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
505 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
506 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
507 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
508 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
509 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
510 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
511 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
513 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
515 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
518 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
519 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
520 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
521 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
522 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
523 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
524 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
525 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
526 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
528 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
529 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
530 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
531 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
532 this section. closes: Bug#248618
533 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
534 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
535 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
536 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
537 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
538 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
539 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
540 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
541 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
542 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
543 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
544 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
546 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
547 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
548 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
551 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
552 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
553 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
555 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
556 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
557 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
558 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
559 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
560 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
562 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
563 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
565 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
566 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
567 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
568 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
569 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
570 Closes: #185943, #237049
572 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
574 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
580 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
581 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
582 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
583 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
584 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
585 running. closes: Bug#187250
586 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
587 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
588 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
589 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
590 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
591 user closes: Bug#176506
593 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
595 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
599 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
600 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
601 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
602 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
603 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
604 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
605 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
606 deb-building toolchain.
607 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
608 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
609 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
610 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
611 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
612 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
613 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
614 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
615 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
616 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
617 sections about changelog files.
619 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
620 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
621 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
622 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
623 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
624 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
626 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
627 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
628 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
629 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
630 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
631 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
632 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
633 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
634 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
635 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
636 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
637 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
638 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
639 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
640 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
641 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
642 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
643 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
644 for the restructuring
646 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
648 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
653 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
654 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
655 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
656 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
657 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
658 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
660 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
661 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
662 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
663 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
664 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
665 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
666 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
668 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
669 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
670 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
671 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
673 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
675 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
679 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
680 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
681 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
682 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
683 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
685 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
686 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
687 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
688 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
690 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
691 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
692 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
693 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
694 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
695 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
696 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
697 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
698 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
700 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
701 script should start it, closes: #60979
702 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
703 "should", closes: #170019
704 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
705 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
706 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
707 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
708 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
709 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
710 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
711 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
714 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
716 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
720 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
721 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
722 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
723 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
724 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
725 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
726 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
727 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
729 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
730 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
731 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
732 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
733 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
734 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
735 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
736 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
737 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
739 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
740 file, closes: Bug#65764
742 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
744 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
747 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
748 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
749 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
750 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
751 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
752 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
753 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
754 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
755 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
756 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
757 details. closes: Bug#133030
758 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
759 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
762 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
764 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
767 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
768 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
769 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
770 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
771 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
772 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
773 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
774 not. closes: Bug#139820
775 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
776 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
777 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
778 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
779 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
780 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
781 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
782 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
783 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
784 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
786 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
788 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
789 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
790 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
791 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
792 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
793 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
794 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
795 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
796 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
797 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
798 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
799 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
800 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
801 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
802 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
803 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
804 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
805 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
806 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
807 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
809 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
810 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
811 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
812 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
813 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
814 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
815 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
817 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
818 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
819 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
820 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
821 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
822 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
823 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
824 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
825 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
827 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
829 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
832 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
833 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
834 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
835 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
836 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
837 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
838 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
839 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
840 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
841 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
842 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
843 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
844 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
845 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
846 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
847 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
848 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
849 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
850 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
851 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
852 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
853 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
855 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
857 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
860 medium, high, emergency.
861 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
862 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
863 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
864 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
865 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
868 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
869 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
870 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
872 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
873 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
874 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
875 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
876 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
877 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
878 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
881 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
883 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
886 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
887 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
888 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
890 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
891 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
892 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
893 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
894 debian/rules to do this
895 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
896 patches are incorporated upstream
897 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
898 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
899 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
900 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
901 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
902 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
904 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
905 system closes: Bug#91249
906 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
907 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
908 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
909 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
910 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
911 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
912 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
913 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
914 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
915 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
916 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
917 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
918 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
920 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
922 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
924 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
925 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
926 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
927 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
929 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
930 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
931 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
933 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
936 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
938 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
941 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
942 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
943 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
944 package for the time being
945 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
946 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
947 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
948 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
949 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
950 * Rename all .text files as .txt
951 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
952 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
953 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
954 Build-Depends arch syntax
955 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
957 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
958 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
960 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
961 from policy maintenance duties.
962 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
963 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
965 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
967 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
971 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
973 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
976 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
977 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
978 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
979 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
980 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
981 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
982 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
983 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
984 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
985 minor version number for this
986 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
987 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
988 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
989 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
990 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
991 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
992 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
993 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
994 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
996 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
998 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1001 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1002 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1003 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1004 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1006 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1008 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1009 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1010 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1011 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1012 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1013 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1014 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1015 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1016 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1017 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1018 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1019 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1020 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1021 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1022 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1023 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1026 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1028 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1031 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1033 * Document the Enhances relationship
1034 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1035 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1036 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1037 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1038 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1039 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1041 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1043 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1044 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1045 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1046 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1048 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1049 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1050 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1051 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1052 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1054 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1056 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1059 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1060 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1062 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1063 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1064 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1065 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1066 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1067 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1068 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1069 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1070 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1072 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1074 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1076 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1079 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1080 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1081 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1082 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1083 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1084 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1085 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1086 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1087 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1088 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1089 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1090 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1091 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1092 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1093 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1094 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1095 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1096 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1097 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1098 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1099 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1101 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1102 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1104 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1106 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1109 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1110 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1111 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1112 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1113 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1114 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1115 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1116 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1117 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1118 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1119 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1120 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1121 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1122 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1123 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1124 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1125 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1126 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1127 list closes: Bug#53756
1128 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1129 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1130 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1131 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1132 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1133 policy closes: Bug#53760
1134 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1135 policy closes: Bug#53761
1136 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1137 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1138 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1139 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1140 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1141 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1142 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1143 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1144 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1145 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1146 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1148 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1149 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1150 to install with older fileutils.
1151 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1152 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1153 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1154 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1156 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1157 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1159 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1161 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1164 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1166 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1168 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1171 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1173 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1176 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1179 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1181 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1183 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1185 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1188 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1190 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1192 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1195 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1196 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1197 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1198 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1199 directoried (closes: #41547)
1200 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1201 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1202 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1203 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1204 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1205 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1206 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1207 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1208 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1209 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1210 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1212 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1213 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1214 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1215 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1216 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1217 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1218 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1220 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1221 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1222 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1223 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1225 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1227 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1229 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1230 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1232 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1234 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1237 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1239 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1241 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1244 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1246 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1247 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1248 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1249 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1250 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1251 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1252 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1253 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1254 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1255 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1256 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1257 this closes: Bug#38612
1258 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1259 before. closes: Bug#40864
1261 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1263 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1266 officially uploaded.
1267 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1269 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1270 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1271 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1273 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1274 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1275 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1276 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1277 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1278 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1280 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1281 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1282 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1284 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1286 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1287 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1288 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1289 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1290 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1292 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1294 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1297 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1298 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1299 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1300 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1301 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1302 there). closes: Bug#34233
1303 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1304 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1305 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1306 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1307 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1309 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1311 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1314 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1315 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1316 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1319 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1320 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1321 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1322 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1323 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1326 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1327 number. closes: BUG#25911
1329 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1330 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1331 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1332 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1333 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1334 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1336 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1337 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1338 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1341 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1342 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1343 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1345 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1346 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1347 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1348 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1350 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1351 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1352 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1354 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1356 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1357 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1358 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1359 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1360 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1361 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1362 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1363 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1366 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1368 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1369 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1372 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1374 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1378 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1380 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1383 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1384 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1385 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1386 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1387 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1388 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1389 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1391 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1392 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1394 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1396 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1398 * non-maintainer release
1399 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1400 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1402 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1403 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1404 * no content changes
1405 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1407 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1409 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1413 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1415 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1419 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1420 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1421 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1423 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1424 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1426 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1427 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1428 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1429 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1431 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1432 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1433 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1434 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1435 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1436 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1437 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1439 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1440 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1441 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1444 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1445 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1446 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1448 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1449 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1450 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1452 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1453 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1455 * New version numbering scheme:
1457 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1458 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1459 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1462 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1463 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1464 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1465 differ between the manuals.
1467 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1468 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1469 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1470 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1472 * Packaging changes:
1474 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1475 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1477 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1479 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1481 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1485 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1486 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1487 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1489 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1490 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1493 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1494 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1495 file extension as the referenced file
1497 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1498 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1500 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1501 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1502 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1503 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1506 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1507 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1508 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1510 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1511 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1512 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1513 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1516 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1517 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1520 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1521 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1522 reasonable default configuration
1524 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1525 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1526 by all news servers and clients
1528 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1529 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1530 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1531 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1532 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1534 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1535 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1538 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1540 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1541 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1543 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1546 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1547 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1549 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1550 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1552 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1554 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1556 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1559 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1560 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1561 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1563 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1565 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1566 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1567 * Don't use debstd anymore
1569 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1571 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1574 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1575 contrib/non-free policy
1576 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1577 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1578 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1579 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1580 - new section about `Daemons'
1581 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1582 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1583 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1584 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1585 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1586 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1587 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1588 * SGML source code included in package
1589 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1591 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1593 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1596 - completely reworked structure
1597 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1598 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1599 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1600 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1601 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1602 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1603 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1604 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1605 - mention "orphaned packages"
1606 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1607 distributions' policy
1608 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1609 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1610 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1611 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1612 - added section about arch spec strings
1613 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1614 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1615 - added section about "menus"
1616 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1617 the new documentation policy soon
1618 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1619 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1621 - added section about editors and pagers
1622 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1623 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1624 - added section about device files
1625 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1626 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1627 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1629 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1630 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1631 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1632 - Added new section about obsolete names
1633 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1634 * Fixed package's description
1636 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1638 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1642 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1644 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1647 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1648 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1649 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1651 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1653 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1656 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1657 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1659 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1660 and upload it "byhand" too.
1662 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1664 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1668 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1669 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1670 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1671 functionality must not have the same name.
1672 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1673 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1674 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1675 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1676 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1677 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1678 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1680 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1681 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1682 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1683 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1684 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1685 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1686 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1687 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1690 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1692 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1694 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1696 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1697 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1698 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1699 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1700 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1703 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1705 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1707 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1709 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1710 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1711 description of deb file format.
1712 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1713 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1715 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1717 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1718 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1720 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1722 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1724 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1725 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1726 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1727 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1728 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1729 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1730 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1731 packages in section on Procedure
1732 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1733 a package maintainer
1734 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1735 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1736 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1738 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1739 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1740 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1741 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1742 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1743 on various shlib files
1744 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1745 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1746 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1748 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1750 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1752 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1753 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1754 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1756 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1757 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1758 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1759 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1760 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1762 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1764 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1766 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1768 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1770 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1771 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1772 compatibility go in contrib.
1774 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1775 instructions in policy manual.
1776 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1779 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1781 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1783 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1784 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1785 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1786 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1788 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1789 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1792 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1794 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1796 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1797 * More detail about changelog format names.
1799 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1800 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1804 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1806 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1808 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1810 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1812 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1814 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1816 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1818 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1819 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1820 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1822 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1824 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1826 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1828 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1830 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1834 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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