1 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
4 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
5 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
6 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
7 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
8 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
9 there). closes: Bug#34233
10 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
11 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
12 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
13 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
14 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
16 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
18 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
20 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
21 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
22 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
23 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
26 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
27 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
28 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
29 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
30 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
33 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
34 number. closes: BUG#25911
36 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
37 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
38 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
39 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
40 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
41 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
43 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
44 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
45 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
48 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
49 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
50 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
52 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
53 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
54 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
55 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
57 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
58 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
59 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
61 * Make the package optional, not extra.
63 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
64 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
65 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
66 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
67 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
68 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
69 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
70 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
73 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
75 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
76 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
79 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
81 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
83 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
85 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
87 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
89 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
90 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
91 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
92 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
93 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
94 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
95 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
96 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
98 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
99 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
101 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
103 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
105 * non-maintainer release
106 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
107 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
109 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
110 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
112 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
114 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
116 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
120 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
122 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
124 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
126 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
127 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
128 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
130 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
131 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
133 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
134 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
135 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
136 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
138 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
139 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
140 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
141 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
142 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
143 and restart options and to comply with the console message
144 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
146 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
147 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
148 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
151 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
152 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
153 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
155 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
156 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
157 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
159 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
160 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
162 * New version numbering scheme:
164 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
165 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
166 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
169 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
170 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
171 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
172 differ between the manuals.
174 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
175 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
176 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
177 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
181 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
182 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
184 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
186 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
188 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
192 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
193 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
194 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
196 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
197 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
200 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
201 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
202 file extension as the referenced file
204 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
205 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
207 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
208 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
209 start, stop, restart, force-reload
210 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
213 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
214 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
215 be installed into /etc/cron.d
217 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
218 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
219 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
220 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
223 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
224 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
227 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
228 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
229 reasonable default configuration
231 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
232 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
233 by all news servers and clients
235 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
236 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
237 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
238 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
239 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
241 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
242 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
245 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
247 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
248 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
250 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
253 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
254 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
256 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
257 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
259 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
261 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
263 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
266 - X library package is now called xlib6g
267 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
268 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
270 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
272 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
273 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
274 * Don't use debstd anymore
276 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
278 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
281 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
282 contrib/non-free policy
283 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
284 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
285 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
286 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
287 - new section about `Daemons'
288 - updated section about `Configuration files'
289 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
290 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
291 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
292 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
293 * Paper about libc6 migration:
294 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
295 * SGML source code included in package
296 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
298 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
300 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
303 - completely reworked structure
304 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
305 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
306 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
307 - removed all those ugly footnotes
308 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
309 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
310 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
311 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
312 - mention "orphaned packages"
313 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
314 distributions' policy
315 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
316 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
317 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
318 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
319 - added section about arch spec strings
320 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
321 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
322 - added section about "menus"
323 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
324 the new documentation policy soon
325 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
326 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
328 - added section about editors and pagers
329 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
330 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
331 - added section about device files
332 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
333 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
334 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
336 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
337 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
338 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
339 - Added new section about obsolete names
340 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
341 * Fixed package's description
343 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
345 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
347 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
349 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
351 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
353 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
354 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
355 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
356 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
358 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
360 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
362 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
363 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
364 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
366 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
367 and upload it "byhand" too.
369 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
371 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
374 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
375 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
376 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
377 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
378 functionality must not have the same name.
379 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
380 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
381 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
382 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
383 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
384 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
385 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
387 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
388 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
389 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
390 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
391 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
392 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
393 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
394 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
397 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
399 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
401 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
403 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
404 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
405 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
406 a package into. (Guy Maor)
407 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
410 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
412 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
414 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
416 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
417 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
418 description of deb file format.
419 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
420 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
422 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
424 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
425 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
427 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
429 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
431 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
432 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
433 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
434 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
435 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
436 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
437 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
438 packages in section on Procedure
439 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
441 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
442 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
443 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
445 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
446 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
447 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
448 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
449 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
450 on various shlib files
451 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
452 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
453 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
455 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
457 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
459 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
460 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
461 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
463 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
464 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
465 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
466 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
467 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
469 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
471 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
473 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
475 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
477 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
478 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
479 compatibility go in contrib.
481 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
482 instructions in policy manual.
483 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
486 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
488 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
490 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
491 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
492 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
493 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
495 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
496 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
499 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
501 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
503 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
504 * More detail about changelog format names.
506 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
507 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
511 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
513 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
515 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
517 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
519 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
521 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
523 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
525 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
526 * More verbosity about netiquette.
527 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
529 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
531 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
533 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
535 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
537 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
541 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
544 mode: debian-changelog
545 add-log-mailing-address: "phil@hands.com"