1 debian-policy (3.7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
4 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
5 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
6 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
7 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
8 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
9 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
10 Millan (Closes: #209008).
11 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
12 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
14 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
16 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
18 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
19 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
20 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
21 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
22 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
23 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
24 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
26 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
27 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
28 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
29 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
31 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
32 Küster (Closes: #403391).
33 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
34 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
35 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
36 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
37 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
38 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
39 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
40 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
41 * Add an md5sums control file.
42 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
43 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
44 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
45 currently part of policy.
46 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
47 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
51 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
54 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
55 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
56 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
57 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
58 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
59 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
60 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
61 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
62 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
63 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
64 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
65 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
66 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
67 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
68 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
70 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
72 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
73 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
74 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
76 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
77 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
78 list?" (Closes: #412634).
79 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
80 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
81 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
82 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
83 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
84 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
85 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
86 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
87 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
88 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
89 debconf specification.
90 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
91 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
93 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
95 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
98 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
99 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
100 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
101 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
103 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
105 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
106 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
107 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
108 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
109 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
111 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
112 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
113 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
114 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
115 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
116 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
117 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
118 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
119 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
120 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
121 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
122 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
123 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
124 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
125 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
128 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
131 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
132 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
133 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
134 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
135 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
136 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
137 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
139 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
141 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
144 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
145 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
146 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
147 Polo (Closes: #372497).
148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
149 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
151 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
152 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
153 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
154 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
155 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
156 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
157 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
158 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
159 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
160 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
162 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
163 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
164 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
165 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
166 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
167 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
169 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
171 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
174 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
175 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
176 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
178 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
179 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
181 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
183 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
186 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
187 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
188 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
189 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
190 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
191 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
192 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
193 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
194 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
196 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
197 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
198 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
199 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
200 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
201 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
202 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
203 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
204 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
205 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
206 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
209 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
211 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
214 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
215 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
216 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
217 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
218 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
219 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
220 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
221 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
222 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
223 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
224 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
225 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
226 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
227 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
228 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
229 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
230 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
231 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
232 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
233 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
234 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
235 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
236 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
237 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
238 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
239 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
240 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
242 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
243 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
244 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
245 Hess (Closes: #362247).
246 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
247 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
248 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
249 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
250 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
251 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
252 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
253 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
254 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
255 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
256 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
257 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
259 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
260 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
262 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
263 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
265 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
266 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
267 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
268 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
269 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
270 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
271 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
272 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
274 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
276 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
280 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
281 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
282 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
284 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
285 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
286 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
287 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
288 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
289 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
290 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
291 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
293 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
294 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
296 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
297 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
298 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
299 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
300 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
301 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
302 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
303 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
304 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
305 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
306 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
307 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
308 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
309 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
310 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
311 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
314 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
316 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
319 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
320 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
321 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
323 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
324 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
325 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
326 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
328 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
330 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
334 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
335 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
336 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
337 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
338 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
339 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
340 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
341 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
342 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
344 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
345 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
346 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
348 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
349 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
350 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
351 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
352 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
353 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
354 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
356 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
357 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
358 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
359 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
361 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
362 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
363 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
364 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
365 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
366 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
367 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
368 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
370 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
371 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
372 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
373 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
374 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
375 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
376 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
377 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
378 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
379 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
380 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
381 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
382 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
383 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
384 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
385 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
386 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
388 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
390 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
393 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
394 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
395 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
396 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
397 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
398 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
399 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
400 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
401 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
403 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
404 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
405 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
406 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
407 this section. closes: Bug#248618
408 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
409 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
410 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
411 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
412 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
413 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
414 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
415 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
416 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
417 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
418 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
419 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
421 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
422 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
423 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
426 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
427 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
428 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
430 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
431 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
432 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
433 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
434 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
435 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
437 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
438 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
440 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
441 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
442 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
443 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
444 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
445 Closes: #185943, #237049
447 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
449 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
455 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
456 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
457 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
458 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
459 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
460 running. closes: Bug#187250
461 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
462 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
463 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
464 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
465 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
466 user closes: Bug#176506
468 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
470 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
474 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
475 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
476 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
477 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
478 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
479 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
480 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
481 deb-building toolchain.
482 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
483 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
484 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
485 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
486 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
487 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
488 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
489 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
490 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
491 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
492 sections about changelog files.
494 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
495 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
496 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
497 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
498 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
499 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
501 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
502 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
503 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
504 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
505 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
506 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
507 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
508 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
509 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
510 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
511 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
512 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
513 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
514 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
515 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
516 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
517 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
518 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
519 for the restructuring
521 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
523 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
528 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
529 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
530 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
531 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
532 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
533 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
535 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
536 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
537 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
538 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
539 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
540 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
541 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
543 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
544 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
545 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
546 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
548 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
550 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
554 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
555 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
556 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
557 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
558 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
560 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
561 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
562 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
563 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
565 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
566 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
567 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
568 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
569 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
570 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
571 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
572 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
573 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
575 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
576 script should start it, closes: #60979
577 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
578 "should", closes: #170019
579 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
580 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
581 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
582 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
583 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
584 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
585 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
586 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
589 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
591 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
595 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
596 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
597 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
598 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
599 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
600 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
601 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
602 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
604 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
605 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
606 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
607 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
608 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
609 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
610 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
611 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
612 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
614 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
615 file, closes: Bug#65764
617 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
619 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
622 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
623 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
624 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
625 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
626 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
627 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
628 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
629 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
630 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
631 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
632 details. closes: Bug#133030
633 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
634 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
637 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
639 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
642 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
643 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
644 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
645 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
646 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
647 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
648 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
649 not. closes: Bug#139820
650 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
651 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
652 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
653 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
654 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
655 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
656 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
657 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
658 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
659 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
661 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
663 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
664 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
665 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
666 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
667 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
668 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
669 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
670 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
671 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
672 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
673 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
674 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
675 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
676 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
677 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
678 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
679 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
680 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
681 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
682 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
684 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
685 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
686 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
687 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
688 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
689 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
690 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
692 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
693 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
694 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
695 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
696 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
697 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
698 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
699 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
700 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
702 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
704 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
707 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
708 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
709 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
710 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
711 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
712 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
713 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
714 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
715 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
716 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
717 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
718 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
719 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
720 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
721 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
722 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
723 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
724 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
725 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
726 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
727 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
728 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
730 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
732 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
735 medium, high, emergency.
736 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
737 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
738 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
739 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
740 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
743 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
744 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
745 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
747 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
748 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
749 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
750 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
751 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
752 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
753 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
756 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
758 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
761 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
762 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
763 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
765 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
766 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
767 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
768 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
769 debian/rules to do this
770 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
771 patches are incorporated upstream
772 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
773 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
774 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
775 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
776 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
777 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
779 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
780 system closes: Bug#91249
781 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
782 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
783 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
784 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
785 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
786 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
787 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
788 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
789 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
790 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
791 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
792 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
793 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
795 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
797 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
799 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
800 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
801 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
802 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
804 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
805 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
806 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
808 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
811 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
813 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
816 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
817 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
818 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
819 package for the time being
820 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
821 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
822 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
823 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
824 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
825 * Rename all .text files as .txt
826 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
827 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
828 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
829 Build-Depends arch syntax
830 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
832 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
833 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
835 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
836 from policy maintenance duties.
837 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
838 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
840 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
842 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
846 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
848 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
851 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
852 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
853 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
854 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
855 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
856 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
857 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
858 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
859 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
860 minor version number for this
861 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
862 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
863 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
864 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
865 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
866 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
867 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
868 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
869 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
871 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
873 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
875 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
876 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
877 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
878 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
879 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
881 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
883 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
884 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
885 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
886 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
887 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
888 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
889 xutils closes: Bug#82966
890 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
891 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
892 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
893 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
894 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
895 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
896 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
897 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
898 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
901 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
903 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
905 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
906 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
908 * Document the Enhances relationship
909 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
910 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
911 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
912 policy. closes: Bug#53496
913 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
914 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
916 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
918 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
919 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
920 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
921 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
923 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
924 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
925 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
926 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
927 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
929 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
931 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
934 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
935 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
937 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
938 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
939 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
940 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
941 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
942 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
943 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
944 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
945 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
947 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
949 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
951 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
953 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
954 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
955 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
956 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
957 policy. closes: Bug#64437
958 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
959 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
960 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
961 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
962 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
963 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
964 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
965 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
966 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
967 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
968 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
969 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
970 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
971 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
972 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
973 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
974 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
976 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
977 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
979 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
981 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
984 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
985 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
986 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
987 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
988 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
989 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
990 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
991 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
992 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
993 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
994 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
995 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
996 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
997 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
998 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
999 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1000 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1001 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1002 list closes: Bug#53756
1003 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1004 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1005 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1006 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1007 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1008 policy closes: Bug#53760
1009 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1010 policy closes: Bug#53761
1011 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1012 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1013 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1014 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1015 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1016 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1017 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1018 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1019 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1020 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1021 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1023 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1024 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1025 to install with older fileutils.
1026 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1027 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1028 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1029 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1031 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1032 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1034 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1036 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1039 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1041 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1043 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1046 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1048 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1051 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1054 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1056 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1058 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1060 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1063 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1065 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1067 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1070 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1071 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1072 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1073 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1074 directoried (closes: #41547)
1075 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1076 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1077 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1078 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1079 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1080 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1081 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1082 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1083 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1084 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1085 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1087 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1088 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1089 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1090 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1091 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1092 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1093 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1095 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1096 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1097 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1098 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1100 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1102 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1104 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1105 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1107 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1109 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1112 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1114 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1116 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1119 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1121 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1122 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1123 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1124 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1125 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1126 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1127 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1128 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1129 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1130 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1131 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1132 this closes: Bug#38612
1133 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1134 before. closes: Bug#40864
1136 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1138 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1141 officially uploaded.
1142 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1144 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1145 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1146 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1148 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1149 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1150 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1151 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1152 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1153 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1155 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1156 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1157 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1159 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1161 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1162 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1163 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1164 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1165 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1167 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1169 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1172 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1173 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1174 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1175 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1176 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1177 there). closes: Bug#34233
1178 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1179 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1180 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1181 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1182 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1184 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1186 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1189 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1190 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1191 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1194 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1195 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1196 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1197 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1198 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1201 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1202 number. closes: BUG#25911
1204 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1205 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1206 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1207 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1208 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1209 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1211 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1212 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1213 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1216 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1217 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1218 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1220 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1221 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1222 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1223 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1225 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1226 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1227 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1229 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1231 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1232 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1233 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1234 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1235 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1236 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1237 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1238 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1241 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1243 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1244 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1247 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1249 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1253 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1255 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1258 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1259 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1260 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1261 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1262 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1263 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1264 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1266 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1267 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1269 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1271 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1273 * non-maintainer release
1274 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1275 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1277 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1278 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1279 * no content changes
1280 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1282 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1284 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1288 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1290 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1294 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1295 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1296 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1298 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1299 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1301 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1302 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1303 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1304 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1306 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1307 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1308 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1309 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1310 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1311 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1312 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1314 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1315 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1316 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1319 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1320 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1321 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1323 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1324 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1325 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1327 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1328 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1330 * New version numbering scheme:
1332 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1333 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1334 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1337 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1338 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1339 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1340 differ between the manuals.
1342 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1343 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1344 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1345 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1347 * Packaging changes:
1349 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1350 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1352 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1354 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1356 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1360 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1361 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1362 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1364 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1365 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1368 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1369 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1370 file extension as the referenced file
1372 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1373 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1375 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1376 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1377 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1378 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1381 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1382 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1383 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1385 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1386 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1387 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1388 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1391 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1392 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1395 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1396 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1397 reasonable default configuration
1399 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1400 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1401 by all news servers and clients
1403 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1404 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1405 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1406 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1407 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1409 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1410 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1413 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1415 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1416 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1418 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1421 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1422 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1424 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1425 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1427 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1429 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1431 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1434 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1435 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1436 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1438 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1440 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1441 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1442 * Don't use debstd anymore
1444 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1446 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1449 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1450 contrib/non-free policy
1451 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1452 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1453 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1454 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1455 - new section about `Daemons'
1456 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1457 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1458 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1459 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1460 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1461 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1462 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1463 * SGML source code included in package
1464 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1466 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1468 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1471 - completely reworked structure
1472 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1473 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1474 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1475 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1476 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1477 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1478 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1479 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1480 - mention "orphaned packages"
1481 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1482 distributions' policy
1483 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1484 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1485 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1486 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1487 - added section about arch spec strings
1488 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1489 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1490 - added section about "menus"
1491 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1492 the new documentation policy soon
1493 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1494 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1496 - added section about editors and pagers
1497 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1498 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1499 - added section about device files
1500 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1501 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1502 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1504 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1505 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1506 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1507 - Added new section about obsolete names
1508 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1509 * Fixed package's description
1511 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1513 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1517 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1519 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1522 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1523 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1524 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1526 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1528 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1531 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1532 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1534 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1535 and upload it "byhand" too.
1537 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1539 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1543 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1544 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1545 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1546 functionality must not have the same name.
1547 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1548 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1549 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1550 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1551 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1552 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1553 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1555 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1556 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1557 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1558 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1559 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1560 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1561 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1562 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1565 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1567 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1569 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1571 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1572 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1573 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1574 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1575 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1578 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1580 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1582 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1584 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1585 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1586 description of deb file format.
1587 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1588 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1590 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1592 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1593 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1595 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1597 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1599 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1600 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1601 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1602 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1603 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1604 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1605 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1606 packages in section on Procedure
1607 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1608 a package maintainer
1609 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1610 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1611 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1613 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1614 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1615 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1616 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1617 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1618 on various shlib files
1619 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1620 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1621 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1623 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1625 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1627 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1628 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1629 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1631 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1632 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1633 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1634 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1635 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1637 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1639 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1641 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1643 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1645 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1646 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1647 compatibility go in contrib.
1649 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1650 instructions in policy manual.
1651 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1654 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1656 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1658 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1659 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1660 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1661 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1663 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1664 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1667 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1669 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1671 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1672 * More detail about changelog format names.
1674 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1675 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1679 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1681 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1683 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1685 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1687 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1689 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1691 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1693 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1694 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1695 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1697 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1699 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1701 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1703 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1705 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1709 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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