1 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
4 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
8 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
9 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
15 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
22 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
27 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
28 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
32 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
36 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
37 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
39 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
41 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
42 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
43 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
47 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
48 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
49 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
52 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
53 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
54 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
55 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
57 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
58 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
59 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
60 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
61 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
62 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
63 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
64 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
65 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
66 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
67 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
68 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
70 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
72 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
74 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
76 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
77 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
78 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
80 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
81 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
82 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
83 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
88 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
89 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
93 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
94 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
98 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
99 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
100 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
101 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
105 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
106 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
110 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
111 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
112 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
113 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
116 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
117 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
118 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
121 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
122 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
127 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
129 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
132 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
133 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
134 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
135 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
137 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
138 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
139 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
140 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
141 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
142 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
143 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
144 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
145 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
146 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
147 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
148 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
149 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
150 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
151 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
152 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
153 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
155 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
156 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
157 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
158 good to know which version one is looking at.
159 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
160 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
161 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
162 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
163 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
164 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
165 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
167 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
168 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
169 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
170 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
171 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
173 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
174 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
175 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
177 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
178 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
179 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
180 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
182 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
184 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
188 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
189 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
190 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
191 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
192 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
193 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
194 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
195 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
196 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
197 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
202 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
203 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
208 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
209 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
210 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
213 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
215 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
216 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
220 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
221 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
224 Closes: #620870, #532120
225 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
226 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
231 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
232 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
233 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
237 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
238 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
239 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
240 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
241 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
243 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
244 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
245 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
246 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
247 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
248 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
249 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
250 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
251 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
252 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
253 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
254 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
255 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
256 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
257 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
258 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
260 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
262 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
263 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
264 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
265 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
266 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
267 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
268 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
269 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
270 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
271 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
274 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
276 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
277 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
278 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
279 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
284 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
285 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
287 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
288 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
289 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
290 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
293 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
295 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
299 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
300 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
301 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
304 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
305 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
306 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
308 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
309 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
315 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
316 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
317 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
320 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
321 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
326 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
327 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
328 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
329 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
332 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
333 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
334 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
337 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
338 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
343 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
345 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
348 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
351 Closes: #459868, #581011
352 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
353 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
355 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
357 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
358 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
360 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
362 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
363 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
365 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
367 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
368 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
372 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
373 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
376 Closes: #501930, #593909
377 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
378 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
382 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
383 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
384 machine. (Closes: #591857)
385 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
386 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
387 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
388 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
389 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
390 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
391 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
392 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
393 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
394 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
396 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
397 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
398 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
399 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
400 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
401 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
402 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
403 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
404 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
405 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
406 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
407 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
408 than the version in oldstable.
409 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
410 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
411 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
412 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
413 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
414 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
415 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
416 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
417 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
418 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
419 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
420 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
421 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
422 package. (Closes: #609160)
424 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
426 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
429 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
430 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
434 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
435 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
439 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
440 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
444 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
445 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
449 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
450 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
454 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
455 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
459 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
460 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
464 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
465 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
467 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
469 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
470 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
472 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
474 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
475 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
478 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
480 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
481 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
486 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
487 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
491 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
492 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
496 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
497 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
501 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
502 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
506 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
507 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
511 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
512 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
516 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
518 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
519 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
520 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
521 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
522 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
523 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
524 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
525 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
526 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
528 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
529 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
530 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
531 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
532 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
533 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
535 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
537 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
543 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
546 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
547 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
548 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
549 and distribution license' (three times).
550 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
551 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
556 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
558 Proposed by Santiago Vila
559 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
561 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
562 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
566 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
567 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
571 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
572 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
573 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
576 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
578 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
579 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
583 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
584 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
587 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
589 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
590 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
593 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
595 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
596 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
599 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
601 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
602 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
603 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
606 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
607 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
612 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
613 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
617 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
618 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
622 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
623 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
624 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
628 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
629 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
630 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
633 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
634 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
639 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
640 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
644 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
645 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
646 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
647 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
648 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
649 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
650 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
651 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
652 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
653 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
654 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
655 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
656 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
657 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
658 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
659 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
660 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
661 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
662 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
663 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
664 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
665 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
666 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
667 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
668 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
669 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
670 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
671 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
672 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
673 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
674 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
675 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
677 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
679 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
681 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
685 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
687 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
688 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
692 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
695 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
696 Wording: Steve Langasek.
697 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
698 Seconded: Julien Cristau
699 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
702 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
703 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
704 Seconded: Russ Allbery
705 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
708 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
709 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
710 Seconded: Russ Allbery
712 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
713 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
714 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
715 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
716 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
717 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
718 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
719 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
720 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
722 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
723 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
724 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
725 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
726 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
727 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
728 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
730 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
731 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
732 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
733 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
734 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
735 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
736 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
737 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
739 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
740 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
741 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
742 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
743 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
745 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
748 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
749 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
752 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
753 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
756 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
758 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
761 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
763 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
765 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
766 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
770 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
771 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
772 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
773 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
775 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
776 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
779 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
780 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
782 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
783 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
785 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
786 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
788 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
789 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
790 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
791 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
793 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
794 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
795 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
796 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
798 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
799 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
800 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
801 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
803 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
804 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
805 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
806 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
808 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
809 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
810 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
811 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
813 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
814 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
815 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
816 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
817 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
818 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
819 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
820 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
821 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
822 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
823 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
824 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
825 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
826 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
827 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
829 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
830 Source field descriptions.
831 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
832 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
833 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
834 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
835 description says otherwise.
837 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
839 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
843 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
844 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
845 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
846 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
847 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
849 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
850 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
851 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
852 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
854 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
855 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
856 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
857 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
859 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
860 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
861 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
862 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
864 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
865 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
866 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
867 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
871 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
872 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
873 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
874 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
875 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
877 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
878 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
879 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
880 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
882 * Add myself to Uploaders.
885 * Add myself to Uploaders.
886 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
888 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
889 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
890 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
892 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
894 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
897 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
898 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
899 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
901 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
902 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
903 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
904 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
906 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
907 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
908 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
909 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
911 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
912 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
913 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
914 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
916 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
917 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
918 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
919 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
921 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
922 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
923 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
924 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
926 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
927 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
928 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
929 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
931 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
932 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
933 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
934 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
936 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
937 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
938 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
939 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
941 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
942 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
943 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
944 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
946 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
947 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
948 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
949 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
950 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
952 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
953 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
954 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
955 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
956 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
957 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
958 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
959 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
960 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
961 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
962 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
963 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
964 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
965 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
966 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
967 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
968 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
969 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
970 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
971 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
972 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
973 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
974 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
975 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
976 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
977 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
978 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
979 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
980 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
981 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
983 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
984 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
985 links was completed long ago.
986 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
988 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
990 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
993 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
995 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
997 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1000 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1001 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1002 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1003 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1004 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1005 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1006 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1007 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1008 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1010 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1012 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1014 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1015 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1016 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1017 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1018 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1019 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1020 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1022 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1023 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1024 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1025 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1027 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1028 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1029 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1030 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1031 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1032 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1033 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1034 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1035 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1036 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1037 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1038 Closes: #186700, #458910
1039 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1040 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1041 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1043 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1044 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1045 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1046 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1047 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1048 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1049 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1050 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1052 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1053 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1055 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1056 * Add an md5sums control file.
1057 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1058 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1059 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1060 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1061 currently part of policy.
1062 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1063 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1064 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1067 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1069 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1072 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1073 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1074 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1075 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1076 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1077 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1078 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1079 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1080 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1081 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1082 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1083 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1084 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1085 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1086 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1088 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1090 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1091 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1092 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1094 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1095 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1096 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1097 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1098 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1099 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1100 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1101 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1102 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1103 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1104 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1105 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1106 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1107 debconf specification.
1108 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1109 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1111 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1113 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1116 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1117 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1118 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1119 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1121 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1123 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1124 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1125 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1126 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1127 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1129 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1130 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1131 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1132 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1133 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1134 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1135 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1136 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1137 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1138 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1139 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1140 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1141 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1142 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1143 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1144 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1146 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1149 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1150 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1151 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1152 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1153 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1154 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1155 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1157 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1159 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1162 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1163 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1164 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1165 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1166 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1167 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1169 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1170 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1171 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1172 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1174 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1175 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1176 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1178 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1180 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1181 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1182 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1183 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1184 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1185 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1187 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1189 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1192 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1193 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1194 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1196 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1197 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1199 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1201 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1204 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1205 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1206 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1207 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1208 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1209 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1210 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1211 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1212 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1214 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1215 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1216 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1217 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1218 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1219 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1220 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1221 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1222 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1223 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1224 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1227 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1229 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1232 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1233 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1234 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1235 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1236 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1237 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1238 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1239 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1240 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1241 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1242 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1243 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1244 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1245 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1246 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1247 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1248 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1249 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1250 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1252 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1253 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1254 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1255 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1256 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1257 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1258 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1260 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1261 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1262 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1263 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1265 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1266 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1267 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1268 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1269 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1270 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1271 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1272 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1273 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1274 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1275 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1277 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1278 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1280 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1281 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1282 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1283 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1284 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1285 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1286 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1287 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1288 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1289 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1290 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1292 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1294 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1298 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1299 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1300 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1301 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1302 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1303 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1304 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1305 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1306 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1307 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1308 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1309 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1311 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1312 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1313 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1314 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1315 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1316 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1317 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1318 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1319 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1320 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1321 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1322 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1323 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1324 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1325 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1326 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1327 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1328 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1329 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1332 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1334 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1337 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1338 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1339 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1341 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1342 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1343 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1344 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1346 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1348 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1352 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1353 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1354 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1355 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1356 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1357 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1358 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1359 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1360 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1362 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1363 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1364 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1366 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1367 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1368 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1369 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1370 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1371 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1372 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1374 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1375 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1376 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1377 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1379 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1380 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1381 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1382 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1383 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1384 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1385 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1386 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1388 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1389 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1390 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1391 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1392 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1393 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1394 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1395 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1396 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1397 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1398 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1399 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1400 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1401 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1402 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1403 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1404 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1406 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1408 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1412 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1413 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1414 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1415 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1416 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1417 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1418 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1419 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1421 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1422 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1423 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1424 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1425 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1426 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1427 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1428 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1429 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1430 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1431 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1432 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1433 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1434 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1435 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1436 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1437 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1439 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1440 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1441 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1444 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1445 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1446 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1448 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1449 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1450 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1451 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1452 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1453 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1455 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1456 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1458 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1459 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1460 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1461 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1462 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1463 Closes: #185943, #237049
1465 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1467 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1473 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1474 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1475 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1476 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1477 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1478 running. closes: Bug#187250
1479 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1480 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1481 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1482 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1483 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1484 user closes: Bug#176506
1486 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1488 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1492 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1493 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1494 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1495 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1496 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1497 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1498 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1499 deb-building toolchain.
1500 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1501 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1502 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1503 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1504 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1505 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1506 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1507 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1508 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1509 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1510 sections about changelog files.
1512 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1513 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1514 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1515 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1516 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1517 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1519 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1520 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1521 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1522 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1523 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1524 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1525 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1526 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1527 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1528 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1529 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1530 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1531 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1532 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1533 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1534 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1535 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1536 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1537 for the restructuring
1539 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1541 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1546 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1547 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1548 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1549 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1550 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1551 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1553 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1554 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1555 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1556 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1557 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1558 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1559 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1561 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1562 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1563 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1564 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1566 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1568 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1572 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1573 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1574 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1575 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1576 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1578 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1579 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1580 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1581 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1583 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1584 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1585 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1586 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1587 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1588 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1589 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1590 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1591 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1592 offtopic stuff, too.
1593 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1594 script should start it, closes: #60979
1595 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1596 "should", closes: #170019
1597 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1598 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1599 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1600 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1601 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1602 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1603 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1604 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1607 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1609 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1613 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1614 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1615 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1616 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1617 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1618 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1619 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1620 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1622 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1623 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1624 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1625 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1626 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1627 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1628 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1629 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1630 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1632 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1633 file, closes: Bug#65764
1635 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1637 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1640 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1641 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1642 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1643 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1644 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1645 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1646 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1647 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1648 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1649 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1650 details. closes: Bug#133030
1651 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1652 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1653 parts of Bug#161455.
1655 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1657 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1660 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1661 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1662 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1663 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1664 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1665 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1666 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1667 not. closes: Bug#139820
1668 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1669 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1670 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1671 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1672 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1673 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1674 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1675 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1676 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1677 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1679 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1681 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1682 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1683 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1684 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1685 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1686 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1687 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1688 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1689 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1690 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1691 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1692 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1693 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1694 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1695 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1696 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1697 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1698 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1699 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1700 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1702 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1703 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1704 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1705 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1706 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1707 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1708 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1710 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1711 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1712 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1713 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1714 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1715 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1716 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1717 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1718 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1720 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1722 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1725 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1726 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1727 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1728 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1729 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1730 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1731 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1732 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1733 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1734 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1735 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1736 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1737 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1738 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1739 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1740 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1741 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1742 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1743 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1744 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1745 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1746 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1748 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1750 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1753 medium, high, emergency.
1754 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1755 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1756 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1757 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1758 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1761 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1762 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1763 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1765 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1766 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1767 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1768 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1769 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1770 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1771 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1774 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1776 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1779 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1780 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1781 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1783 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1784 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1785 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1786 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1787 debian/rules to do this
1788 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1789 patches are incorporated upstream
1790 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1791 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1792 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1793 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1794 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1795 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1797 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1798 system closes: Bug#91249
1799 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1800 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1801 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1802 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1803 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1804 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1805 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1806 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1807 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1808 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1809 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1810 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1811 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1813 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1815 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1818 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1819 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1820 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1822 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1823 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1824 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1826 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1829 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1831 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1834 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1835 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1836 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1837 package for the time being
1838 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1839 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1840 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1841 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1842 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1843 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1844 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1845 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1846 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1847 Build-Depends arch syntax
1848 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1850 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1851 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1853 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1854 from policy maintenance duties.
1855 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1856 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1858 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1860 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1864 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1866 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1869 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1870 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1871 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1872 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1873 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1874 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1875 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1876 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1877 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1878 minor version number for this
1879 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1880 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1881 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1882 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1883 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1884 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1885 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1886 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1887 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1889 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1891 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1894 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1895 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1896 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1897 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1899 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1901 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1902 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1903 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1904 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1905 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1906 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1907 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1908 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1909 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1910 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1911 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1912 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1913 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1914 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1915 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1916 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1919 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1921 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1924 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1926 * Document the Enhances relationship
1927 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1928 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1929 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1930 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1931 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1932 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1934 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1936 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1937 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1938 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1939 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1941 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1942 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1943 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1944 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1945 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1947 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1949 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1952 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1953 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1955 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1956 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1957 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1958 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1959 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1960 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1961 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1962 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1963 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1965 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1967 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1969 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1972 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1973 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1974 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1975 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1976 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1977 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1978 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1979 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1980 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1981 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1982 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1983 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1984 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1985 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1986 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1987 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1988 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1989 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1990 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1991 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1992 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1994 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1995 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1997 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1999 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2002 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2003 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2004 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2005 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2006 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2007 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2008 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2009 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2010 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2011 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2012 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2013 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2014 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2015 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2016 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2017 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2018 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2019 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2020 list closes: Bug#53756
2021 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2022 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2023 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2024 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2025 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2026 policy closes: Bug#53760
2027 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2028 policy closes: Bug#53761
2029 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2030 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2031 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2032 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2033 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2034 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2035 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2036 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2037 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2038 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2039 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2041 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2042 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2043 to install with older fileutils.
2044 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2045 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2046 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2047 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2049 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2050 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2052 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2054 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2057 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2059 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2061 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2064 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2066 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2069 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2072 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2074 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2076 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2078 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2081 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2083 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2085 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2088 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2089 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2090 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2091 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2092 directoried (closes: #41547)
2093 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2094 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2095 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2096 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2097 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2098 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2099 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2100 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2101 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2102 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2103 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2105 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2106 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2107 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2108 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2109 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2110 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2111 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2113 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2114 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2115 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2116 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2118 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2120 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2122 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2123 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2125 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2127 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2130 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2132 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2134 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2137 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2139 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2140 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2141 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2142 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2143 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2144 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2145 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2146 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2147 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2148 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2149 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2150 this closes: Bug#38612
2151 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2152 before. closes: Bug#40864
2154 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2156 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2159 officially uploaded.
2160 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2162 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2163 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2164 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2166 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2167 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2168 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2169 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2170 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2171 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2173 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2174 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2175 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2177 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2179 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2180 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2181 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2182 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2183 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2185 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2187 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2190 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2191 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2192 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2193 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2194 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2195 there). closes: Bug#34233
2196 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2197 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2198 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2199 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2200 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2202 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2204 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2207 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2208 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2209 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2212 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2213 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2214 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2215 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2216 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2219 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2220 number. closes: BUG#25911
2222 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2223 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2224 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2225 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2226 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2227 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2229 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2230 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2231 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2234 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2235 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2236 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2238 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2239 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2240 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2241 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2243 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2244 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2245 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2247 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2249 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2250 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2251 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2252 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2253 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2254 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2255 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2256 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2259 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2261 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2262 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2265 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2267 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2271 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2273 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2276 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2277 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2278 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2279 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2280 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2281 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2282 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2284 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2285 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2287 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2289 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2291 * non-maintainer release
2292 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2293 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2295 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2296 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2297 * no content changes
2298 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2300 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2302 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2306 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2308 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2312 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2313 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2314 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2316 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2317 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2319 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2320 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2321 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2322 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2324 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2325 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2326 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2327 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2328 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2329 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2330 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2332 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2333 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2334 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2337 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2338 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2339 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2341 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2342 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2343 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2345 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2346 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2348 * New version numbering scheme:
2350 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2351 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2352 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2355 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2356 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2357 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2358 differ between the manuals.
2360 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2361 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2362 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2363 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2365 * Packaging changes:
2367 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2368 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2370 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2372 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2374 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2378 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2379 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2380 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2382 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2383 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2386 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2387 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2388 file extension as the referenced file
2390 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2391 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2393 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2394 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2395 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2396 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2399 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2400 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2401 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2403 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2404 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2405 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2406 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2409 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2410 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2413 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2414 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2415 reasonable default configuration
2417 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2418 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2419 by all news servers and clients
2421 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2422 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2423 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2424 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2425 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2427 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2428 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2431 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2433 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2434 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2436 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2439 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2440 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2442 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2443 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2445 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2447 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2449 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2452 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2453 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2454 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2456 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2458 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2459 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2460 * Don't use debstd anymore
2462 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2464 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2467 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2468 contrib/non-free policy
2469 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2470 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2471 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2472 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2473 - new section about `Daemons'
2474 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2475 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2476 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2477 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2478 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2479 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2480 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2481 * SGML source code included in package
2482 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2484 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2486 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2489 - completely reworked structure
2490 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2491 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2492 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2493 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2494 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2495 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2496 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2497 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2498 - mention "orphaned packages"
2499 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2500 distributions' policy
2501 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2502 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2503 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2504 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2505 - added section about arch spec strings
2506 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2507 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2508 - added section about "menus"
2509 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2510 the new documentation policy soon
2511 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2512 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2514 - added section about editors and pagers
2515 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2516 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2517 - added section about device files
2518 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2519 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2520 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2522 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2523 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2524 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2525 - Added new section about obsolete names
2526 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2527 * Fixed package's description
2529 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2531 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2535 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2537 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2540 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2541 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2542 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2544 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2546 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2549 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2550 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2552 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2553 and upload it "byhand" too.
2555 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2557 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2561 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2562 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2563 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2564 functionality must not have the same name.
2565 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2566 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2567 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2568 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2569 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2570 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2571 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2573 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2574 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2575 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2576 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2577 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2578 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2579 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2580 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2583 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2585 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2587 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2589 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2590 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2591 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2592 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2593 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2596 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2598 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2600 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2602 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2603 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2604 description of deb file format.
2605 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2606 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2608 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2610 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2611 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2613 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2615 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2617 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2618 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2619 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2620 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2621 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2622 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2623 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2624 packages in section on Procedure
2625 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2626 a package maintainer
2627 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2628 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2629 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2631 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2632 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2633 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2634 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2635 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2636 on various shlib files
2637 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2638 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2639 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2641 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2643 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2645 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2646 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2647 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2649 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2650 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2651 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2652 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2653 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2655 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2657 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2659 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2661 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2663 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2664 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2665 compatibility go in contrib.
2667 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2668 instructions in policy manual.
2669 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2672 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2674 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2676 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2677 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2678 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2679 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2681 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2682 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2685 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2687 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2689 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2690 * More detail about changelog format names.
2692 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2693 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2697 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2699 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2701 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2703 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2705 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2707 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2709 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2711 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2712 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2713 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2715 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2717 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2719 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2721 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2723 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2727 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100