1 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
4 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
5 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
7 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
8 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
9 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
10 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
11 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
12 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
13 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
14 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
15 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
17 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
20 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
26 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
27 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
31 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
32 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
36 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
37 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
41 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
43 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
48 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
49 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
51 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
54 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
58 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
59 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
61 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
63 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
64 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
68 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
69 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
70 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
73 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
74 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
76 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
79 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
80 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
81 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
82 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
84 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
87 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:18:15 +0200
89 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
92 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
96 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
97 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
102 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
103 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
107 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
108 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
109 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
110 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
114 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
115 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
116 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
120 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
124 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
125 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
127 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
129 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
130 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
131 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
135 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
136 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
140 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
141 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
143 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
145 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
146 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
147 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
150 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
151 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
152 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
156 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
157 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
158 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
160 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
161 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
162 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
163 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
164 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
165 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
166 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
167 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
168 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
169 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
170 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
171 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
173 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
174 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
175 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
176 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
178 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
180 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
182 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
183 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
184 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
186 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
187 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
188 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
189 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
194 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
195 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
200 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
204 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
205 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
206 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
207 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
211 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
212 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
216 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
217 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
218 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
219 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
222 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
223 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
224 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
227 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
228 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
233 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
235 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
238 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
239 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
240 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
241 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
243 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
244 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
245 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
246 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
247 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
248 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
249 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
250 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
251 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
252 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
253 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
254 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
255 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
256 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
257 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
258 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
259 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
261 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
262 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
263 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
264 good to know which version one is looking at.
265 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
266 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
267 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
268 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
269 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
270 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
271 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
273 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
274 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
275 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
276 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
277 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
279 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
280 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
281 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
283 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
284 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
285 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
286 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
288 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
290 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
294 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
295 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
296 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
297 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
298 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
299 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
300 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
301 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
302 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
303 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
308 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
309 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
314 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
315 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
316 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
319 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
321 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
322 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
326 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
327 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
330 Closes: #620870, #532120
331 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
332 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
337 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
338 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
339 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
343 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
344 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
345 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
346 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
347 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
349 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
350 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
351 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
352 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
353 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
354 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
355 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
356 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
357 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
358 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
359 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
360 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
361 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
362 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
363 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
364 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
366 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
368 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
369 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
370 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
371 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
372 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
373 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
374 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
375 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
376 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
377 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
380 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
382 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
383 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
384 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
385 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
390 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
391 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
393 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
394 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
395 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
396 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
399 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
401 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
405 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
406 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
407 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
410 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
411 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
412 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
414 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
415 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
421 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
422 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
423 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
426 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
427 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
432 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
433 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
434 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
435 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
438 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
439 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
440 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
443 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
444 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
449 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
451 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
454 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
457 Closes: #459868, #581011
458 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
459 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
461 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
463 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
464 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
466 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
468 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
469 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
471 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
473 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
474 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
478 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
479 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
482 Closes: #501930, #593909
483 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
484 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
488 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
489 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
490 machine. (Closes: #591857)
491 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
492 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
493 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
494 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
495 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
496 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
497 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
498 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
499 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
500 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
502 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
503 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
504 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
505 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
506 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
507 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
508 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
509 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
510 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
511 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
512 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
513 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
514 than the version in oldstable.
515 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
516 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
517 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
518 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
519 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
520 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
521 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
522 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
523 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
524 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
525 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
526 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
527 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
528 package. (Closes: #609160)
530 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
532 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
535 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
536 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
540 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
541 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
545 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
546 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
550 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
555 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
556 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
560 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
561 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
562 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
565 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
566 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
567 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
570 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
571 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
572 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
573 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
575 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
576 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
578 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
580 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
581 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
586 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
587 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
592 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
593 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
597 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
598 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
602 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
603 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
607 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
608 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
612 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
613 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
617 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
618 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
622 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
624 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
625 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
626 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
627 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
628 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
629 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
630 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
631 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
632 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
634 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
635 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
636 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
637 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
638 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
639 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
641 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
643 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
649 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
652 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
653 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
654 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
655 and distribution license' (three times).
656 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
657 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
659 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
660 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
662 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
664 Proposed by Santiago Vila
665 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
672 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
673 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
674 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
675 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
677 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
678 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
679 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
680 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
682 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
684 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
685 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
687 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
689 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
690 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
691 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
693 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
695 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
696 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
697 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
698 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
699 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
701 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
702 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
703 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
705 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
707 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
708 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
709 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
712 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
713 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
714 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
715 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
718 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
719 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
720 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
723 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
724 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
725 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
726 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
728 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
729 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
730 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
731 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
734 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
735 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
736 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
737 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
739 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
740 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
741 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
742 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
745 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
746 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
747 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
748 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
750 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
751 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
752 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
753 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
754 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
755 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
756 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
757 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
758 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
759 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
760 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
761 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
762 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
763 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
764 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
765 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
766 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
767 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
768 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
769 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
770 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
771 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
772 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
773 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
774 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
775 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
776 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
777 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
778 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
779 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
780 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
781 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
783 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
785 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
787 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
791 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
793 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
794 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
798 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
801 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
802 Wording: Steve Langasek.
803 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
804 Seconded: Julien Cristau
805 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
808 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
809 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
810 Seconded: Russ Allbery
811 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
814 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
815 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
816 Seconded: Russ Allbery
818 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
819 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
820 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
821 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
822 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
823 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
824 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
825 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
826 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
828 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
829 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
830 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
831 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
832 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
833 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
834 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
835 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
836 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
837 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
838 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
839 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
840 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
841 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
842 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
843 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
845 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
846 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
847 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
848 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
849 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
851 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
854 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
855 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
856 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
857 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
858 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
859 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
862 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
864 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
866 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
867 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
868 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
869 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
871 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
872 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
873 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
874 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
876 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
877 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
878 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
879 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
881 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
882 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
883 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
884 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
885 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
886 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
888 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
889 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
890 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
891 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
894 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
895 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
896 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
897 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
899 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
900 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
901 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
902 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
904 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
905 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
906 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
909 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
910 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
911 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
912 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
914 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
915 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
916 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
917 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
919 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
920 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
921 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
922 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
923 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
924 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
925 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
926 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
927 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
928 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
929 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
930 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
931 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
932 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
933 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
935 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
936 Source field descriptions.
937 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
938 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
939 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
940 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
941 description says otherwise.
943 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
945 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
949 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
950 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
951 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
952 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
953 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
955 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
956 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
957 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
958 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
960 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
961 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
962 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
963 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
965 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
966 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
967 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
968 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
970 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
971 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
972 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
973 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
977 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
978 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
979 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
980 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
981 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
983 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
984 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
985 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
986 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
988 * Add myself to Uploaders.
991 * Add myself to Uploaders.
992 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
994 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
995 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
996 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
998 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1000 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1003 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1004 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1005 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1007 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1008 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1009 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1010 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1012 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1013 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1014 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1015 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1017 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1018 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1019 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1020 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1022 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1023 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1024 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1025 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1027 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1028 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1029 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1030 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1032 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1033 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1034 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1035 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1037 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1038 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1039 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1040 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1042 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1043 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1044 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1045 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1047 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1048 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1049 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1050 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1052 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1053 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1054 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1055 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1056 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1058 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1059 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1060 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1061 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1062 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1063 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1064 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1065 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1066 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1067 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1068 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1069 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1070 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1071 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1072 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1073 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1074 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1075 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1076 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1077 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1078 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1079 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1080 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1081 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1082 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1083 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1084 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1085 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1086 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1087 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1089 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1090 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1091 links was completed long ago.
1092 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1094 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1096 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1099 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1101 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1103 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1106 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1107 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1108 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1109 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1110 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1111 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1112 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1113 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1114 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1116 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1118 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1120 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1121 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1122 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1123 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1124 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1125 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1126 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1128 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1129 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1130 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1131 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1133 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1134 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1135 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1136 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1137 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1138 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1139 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1140 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1141 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1142 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1143 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1144 Closes: #186700, #458910
1145 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1146 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1147 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1149 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1150 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1151 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1152 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1153 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1154 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1155 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1156 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1158 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1159 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1161 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1162 * Add an md5sums control file.
1163 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1164 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1165 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1166 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1167 currently part of policy.
1168 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1169 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1170 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1173 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1175 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1178 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1179 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1180 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1181 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1182 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1183 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1184 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1185 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1186 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1187 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1188 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1189 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1190 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1191 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1192 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1194 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1196 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1197 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1198 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1200 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1201 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1202 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1203 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1204 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1205 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1206 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1207 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1208 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1209 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1210 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1211 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1212 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1213 debconf specification.
1214 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1215 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1217 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1219 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1222 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1224 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1225 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1227 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1229 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1230 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1231 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1232 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1233 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1235 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1236 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1237 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1238 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1239 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1240 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1241 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1242 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1243 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1244 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1245 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1246 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1247 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1248 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1249 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1250 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1252 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1254 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1255 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1256 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1257 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1258 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1259 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1260 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1261 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1263 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1265 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1268 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1269 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1270 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1271 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1272 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1273 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1275 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1276 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1277 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1278 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1279 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1280 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1281 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1282 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1284 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1286 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1287 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1288 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1289 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1290 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1291 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1293 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1295 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1298 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1299 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1300 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1302 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1303 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1305 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1307 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1310 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1311 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1312 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1313 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1314 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1315 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1316 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1317 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1318 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1320 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1321 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1322 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1323 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1324 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1325 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1326 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1327 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1328 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1329 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1330 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1333 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1335 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1338 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1339 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1340 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1341 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1342 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1343 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1344 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1345 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1346 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1347 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1348 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1349 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1350 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1351 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1352 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1353 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1354 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1355 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1356 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1357 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1358 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1359 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1360 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1361 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1362 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1363 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1364 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1366 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1367 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1368 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1369 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1370 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1371 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1372 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1373 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1374 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1375 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1376 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1377 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1378 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1379 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1380 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1381 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1383 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1384 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1386 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1387 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1388 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1389 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1390 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1391 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1392 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1393 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1394 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1395 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1396 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1398 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1400 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1404 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1405 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1406 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1407 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1408 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1409 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1410 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1411 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1412 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1413 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1414 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1415 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1417 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1418 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1419 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1420 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1421 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1422 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1423 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1424 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1425 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1426 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1427 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1428 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1429 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1430 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1431 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1432 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1433 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1434 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1435 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1438 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1440 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1443 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1444 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1445 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1447 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1448 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1449 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1450 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1452 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1454 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1458 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1459 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1460 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1461 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1462 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1463 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1464 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1465 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1466 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1468 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1469 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1470 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1472 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1473 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1474 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1475 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1476 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1477 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1478 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1480 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1481 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1482 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1483 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1485 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1486 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1487 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1488 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1489 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1490 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1491 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1492 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1494 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1495 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1496 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1497 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1498 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1499 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1500 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1501 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1502 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1503 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1504 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1505 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1506 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1507 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1508 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1509 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1510 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1512 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1514 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1518 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1519 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1520 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1521 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1522 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1523 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1524 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1525 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1527 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1528 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1529 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1530 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1531 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1532 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1533 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1534 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1535 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1536 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1537 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1538 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1539 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1540 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1541 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1542 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1543 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1545 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1546 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1547 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1550 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1551 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1552 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1554 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1555 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1556 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1557 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1558 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1559 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1561 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1562 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1564 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1565 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1566 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1567 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1568 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1569 Closes: #185943, #237049
1571 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1573 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1579 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1580 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1581 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1582 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1583 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1584 running. closes: Bug#187250
1585 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1586 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1587 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1588 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1589 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1590 user closes: Bug#176506
1592 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1594 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1598 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1599 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1600 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1601 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1602 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1603 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1604 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1605 deb-building toolchain.
1606 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1607 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1608 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1609 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1610 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1611 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1612 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1613 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1614 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1615 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1616 sections about changelog files.
1618 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1619 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1620 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1621 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1622 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1623 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1625 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1626 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1627 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1628 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1629 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1630 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1631 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1632 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1633 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1634 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1635 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1636 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1637 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1638 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1639 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1640 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1641 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1642 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1643 for the restructuring
1645 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1647 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1652 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1653 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1654 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1655 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1656 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1657 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1659 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1660 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1661 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1662 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1663 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1664 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1665 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1667 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1668 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1669 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1670 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1672 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1674 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1678 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1679 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1680 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1681 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1682 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1684 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1685 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1686 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1687 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1689 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1690 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1691 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1692 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1693 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1694 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1695 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1696 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1697 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1698 offtopic stuff, too.
1699 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1700 script should start it, closes: #60979
1701 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1702 "should", closes: #170019
1703 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1704 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1705 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1706 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1707 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1708 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1709 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1710 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1713 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1715 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1719 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1720 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1721 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1722 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1723 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1724 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1725 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1726 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1728 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1729 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1730 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1731 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1732 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1733 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1734 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1735 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1736 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1738 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1739 file, closes: Bug#65764
1741 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1743 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1746 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1747 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1748 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1749 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1750 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1751 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1752 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1753 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1754 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1755 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1756 details. closes: Bug#133030
1757 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1758 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1759 parts of Bug#161455.
1761 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1763 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1766 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1767 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1768 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1769 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1770 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1771 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1772 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1773 not. closes: Bug#139820
1774 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1775 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1776 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1777 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1778 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1779 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1780 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1781 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1782 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1783 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1785 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1787 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1788 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1789 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1790 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1791 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1792 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1793 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1794 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1795 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1796 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1797 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1798 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1799 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1800 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1801 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1802 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1803 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1804 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1805 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1806 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1808 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1809 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1810 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1811 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1812 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1813 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1814 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1816 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1817 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1818 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1819 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1820 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1821 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1822 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1823 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1824 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1826 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1828 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1831 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1832 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1833 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1834 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1835 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1836 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1837 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1838 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1839 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1840 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1841 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1842 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1843 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1844 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1845 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1846 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1847 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1848 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1849 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1850 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1851 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1852 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1854 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1856 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1859 medium, high, emergency.
1860 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1861 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1862 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1863 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1864 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1867 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1868 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1869 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1871 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1872 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1873 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1874 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1875 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1876 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1877 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1880 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1882 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1885 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1886 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1887 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1889 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1890 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1891 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1892 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1893 debian/rules to do this
1894 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1895 patches are incorporated upstream
1896 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1897 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1898 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1899 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1900 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1901 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1903 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1904 system closes: Bug#91249
1905 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1906 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1907 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1908 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1909 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1910 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1911 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1912 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1913 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1914 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1915 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1916 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1917 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1919 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1921 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1924 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1925 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1926 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1928 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1929 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1930 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1932 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1935 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1937 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1940 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1941 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1942 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1943 package for the time being
1944 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1945 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1946 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1947 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1948 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1949 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1950 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1951 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1952 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1953 Build-Depends arch syntax
1954 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1956 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1957 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1959 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1960 from policy maintenance duties.
1961 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1962 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1964 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1966 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1970 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1972 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1975 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1976 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1977 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1978 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1979 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1980 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1981 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1982 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1983 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1984 minor version number for this
1985 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1986 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1987 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1988 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1989 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1990 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1991 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1992 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1993 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1995 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1997 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2000 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2001 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2002 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2003 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2005 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2007 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2008 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2009 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2010 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2011 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2012 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2013 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2014 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2015 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2016 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2017 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2018 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2019 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2020 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2021 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2022 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2025 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2027 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2030 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2032 * Document the Enhances relationship
2033 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2034 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2035 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2036 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2037 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2038 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2040 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2042 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2043 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2044 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2045 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2047 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2048 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2049 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2050 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2051 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2053 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2055 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2058 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2059 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2061 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2062 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2063 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2064 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2065 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2066 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2067 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2068 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2069 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2071 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2073 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2075 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2078 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2079 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2080 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2081 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2082 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2083 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2084 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2085 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2086 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2087 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2088 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2089 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2090 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2091 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2092 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2093 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2094 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2095 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2096 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2097 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2098 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2100 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2101 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2103 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2105 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2108 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2109 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2110 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2111 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2112 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2113 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2114 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2115 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2116 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2117 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2118 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2119 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2120 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2121 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2122 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2123 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2124 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2125 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2126 list closes: Bug#53756
2127 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2128 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2129 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2130 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2131 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2132 policy closes: Bug#53760
2133 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2134 policy closes: Bug#53761
2135 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2136 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2137 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2138 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2139 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2140 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2141 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2142 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2143 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2144 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2145 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2147 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2148 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2149 to install with older fileutils.
2150 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2151 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2152 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2153 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2155 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2156 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2158 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2160 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2163 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2165 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2167 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2170 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2172 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2175 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2178 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2180 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2182 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2184 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2187 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2189 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2191 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2194 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2195 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2196 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2197 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2198 directoried (closes: #41547)
2199 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2200 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2201 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2202 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2203 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2204 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2205 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2206 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2207 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2208 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2209 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2211 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2212 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2213 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2214 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2215 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2216 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2217 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2219 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2220 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2221 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2222 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2224 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2226 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2228 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2229 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2231 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2233 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2236 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2238 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2240 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2243 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2245 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2246 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2247 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2248 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2249 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2250 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2251 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2252 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2253 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2254 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2255 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2256 this closes: Bug#38612
2257 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2258 before. closes: Bug#40864
2260 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2262 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2265 officially uploaded.
2266 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2268 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2269 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2270 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2272 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2273 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2274 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2275 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2276 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2277 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2279 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2280 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2281 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2283 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2285 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2286 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2287 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2288 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2289 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2291 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2293 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2296 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2297 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2298 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2299 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2300 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2301 there). closes: Bug#34233
2302 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2303 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2304 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2305 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2306 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2308 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2310 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2313 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2314 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2315 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2318 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2319 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2320 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2321 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2322 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2325 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2326 number. closes: BUG#25911
2328 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2329 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2330 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2331 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2332 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2333 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2335 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2336 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2337 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2340 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2341 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2342 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2344 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2345 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2346 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2347 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2349 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2350 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2351 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2353 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2355 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2356 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2357 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2358 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2359 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2360 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2361 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2362 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2365 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2367 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2368 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2371 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2373 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2377 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2379 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2382 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2383 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2384 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2385 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2386 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2387 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2388 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2390 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2391 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2393 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2395 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2397 * non-maintainer release
2398 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2399 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2401 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2402 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2403 * no content changes
2404 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2406 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2408 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2412 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2414 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2418 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2419 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2420 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2422 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2423 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2425 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2426 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2427 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2428 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2430 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2431 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2432 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2433 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2434 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2435 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2436 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2438 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2439 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2440 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2443 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2444 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2445 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2447 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2448 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2449 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2451 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2452 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2454 * New version numbering scheme:
2456 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2457 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2458 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2461 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2462 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2463 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2464 differ between the manuals.
2466 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2467 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2468 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2469 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2471 * Packaging changes:
2473 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2474 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2476 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2478 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2480 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2484 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2485 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2486 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2488 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2489 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2492 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2493 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2494 file extension as the referenced file
2496 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2497 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2499 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2500 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2501 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2502 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2505 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2506 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2507 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2509 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2510 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2511 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2512 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2515 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2516 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2519 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2520 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2521 reasonable default configuration
2523 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2524 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2525 by all news servers and clients
2527 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2528 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2529 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2530 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2531 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2533 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2534 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2537 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2539 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2540 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2542 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2545 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2546 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2548 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2549 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2551 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2553 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2555 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2558 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2559 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2560 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2562 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2564 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2565 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2566 * Don't use debstd anymore
2568 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2570 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2573 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2574 contrib/non-free policy
2575 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2576 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2577 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2578 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2579 - new section about `Daemons'
2580 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2581 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2582 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2583 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2584 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2585 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2586 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2587 * SGML source code included in package
2588 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2590 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2592 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2595 - completely reworked structure
2596 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2597 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2598 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2599 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2600 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2601 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2602 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2603 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2604 - mention "orphaned packages"
2605 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2606 distributions' policy
2607 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2608 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2609 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2610 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2611 - added section about arch spec strings
2612 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2613 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2614 - added section about "menus"
2615 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2616 the new documentation policy soon
2617 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2618 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2620 - added section about editors and pagers
2621 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2622 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2623 - added section about device files
2624 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2625 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2626 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2628 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2629 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2630 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2631 - Added new section about obsolete names
2632 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2633 * Fixed package's description
2635 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2637 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2641 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2643 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2646 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2647 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2648 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2650 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2652 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2655 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2656 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2658 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2659 and upload it "byhand" too.
2661 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2663 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2667 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2668 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2669 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2670 functionality must not have the same name.
2671 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2672 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2673 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2674 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2675 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2676 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2677 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2679 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2680 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2681 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2682 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2683 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2684 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2685 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2686 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2689 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2691 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2693 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2695 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2696 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2697 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2698 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2699 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2702 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2704 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2706 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2708 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2709 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2710 description of deb file format.
2711 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2712 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2714 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2716 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2717 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2719 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2721 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2723 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2724 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2725 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2726 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2727 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2728 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2729 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2730 packages in section on Procedure
2731 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2732 a package maintainer
2733 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2734 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2735 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2737 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2738 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2739 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2740 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2741 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2742 on various shlib files
2743 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2744 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2745 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2747 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2749 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2751 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2752 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2753 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2755 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2756 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2757 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2758 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2759 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2761 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2763 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2765 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2767 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2769 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2770 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2771 compatibility go in contrib.
2773 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2774 instructions in policy manual.
2775 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2778 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2780 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2782 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2783 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2784 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2785 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2787 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2788 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2791 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2793 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2795 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2796 * More detail about changelog format names.
2798 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2799 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2803 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2805 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2807 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2809 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2811 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2813 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2815 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2817 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2818 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2819 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2821 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2823 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2825 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2827 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2829 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2833 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100