1 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
4 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
5 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
6 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #639663)
7 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
8 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
9 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
10 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
12 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
13 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
14 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
17 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:07:42 -0800
19 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
23 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
24 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
25 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
26 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
27 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
28 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
29 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
30 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
31 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
32 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
37 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
38 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
43 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
44 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
45 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
48 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
50 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
51 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
56 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
59 Closes: #620870, #532120
60 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
61 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
66 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
67 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
68 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
72 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
73 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
74 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
75 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
76 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
78 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
79 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
80 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
81 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
82 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
83 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
84 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
85 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
86 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
87 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
88 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
89 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
90 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
91 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
92 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
93 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
95 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
97 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
98 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
99 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
100 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
101 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
102 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
103 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
104 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
105 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
106 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
109 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
111 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
112 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
113 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
114 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
119 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
120 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
122 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
123 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
124 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
125 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
128 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
130 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
134 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
135 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
136 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
139 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
140 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
141 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
143 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
144 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
150 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
151 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
152 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
155 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
156 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
161 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
162 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
163 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
164 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
167 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
168 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
169 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
172 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
173 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
178 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
180 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
183 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
186 Closes: #459868, #581011
187 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
188 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
190 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
192 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
193 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
195 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
197 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
198 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
200 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
202 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
203 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
207 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
208 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
211 Closes: #501930, #593909
212 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
213 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
217 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
218 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
219 machine. (Closes: #591857)
220 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
221 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
222 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
223 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
224 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
225 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
226 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
227 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
228 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
229 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
231 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
232 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
233 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
234 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
235 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
236 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
237 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
238 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
239 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
240 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
241 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
242 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
243 than the version in oldstable.
244 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
245 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
246 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
247 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
248 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
249 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
250 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
251 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
252 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
253 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
254 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
255 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
256 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
257 package. (Closes: #609160)
259 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
261 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
264 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
265 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
269 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
270 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
274 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
275 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
279 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
280 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
284 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
285 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
289 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
290 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
294 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
295 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
299 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
300 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
302 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
304 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
305 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
307 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
309 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
310 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
315 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
316 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
321 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
322 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
326 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
327 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
331 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
332 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
336 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
337 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
341 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
342 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
346 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
347 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
351 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
353 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
354 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
355 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
356 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
357 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
358 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
359 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
360 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
361 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
363 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
364 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
365 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
366 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
367 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
368 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
370 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
372 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
378 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
381 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
382 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
383 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
384 and distribution license' (three times).
385 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
386 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
391 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
393 Proposed by Santiago Vila
394 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
401 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
402 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
406 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
407 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
408 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
411 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
413 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
414 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
418 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
419 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
422 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
424 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
425 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
428 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
430 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
431 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
434 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
436 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
437 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
438 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
441 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
442 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
447 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
448 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
452 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
453 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
457 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
458 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
459 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
463 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
464 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
465 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
468 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
469 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
474 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
475 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
479 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
480 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
481 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
482 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
483 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
484 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
485 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
486 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
487 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
488 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
489 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
490 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
491 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
492 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
493 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
494 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
495 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
496 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
497 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
498 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
499 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
500 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
501 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
502 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
503 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
504 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
505 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
506 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
507 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
508 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
509 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
510 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
512 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
514 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
516 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
520 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
522 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
523 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
527 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
530 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
531 Wording: Steve Langasek.
532 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
533 Seconded: Julien Cristau
534 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
537 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
538 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
539 Seconded: Russ Allbery
540 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
543 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
544 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
545 Seconded: Russ Allbery
547 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
548 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
549 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
550 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
551 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
552 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
553 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
554 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
555 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
557 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
558 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
559 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
560 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
561 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
562 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
563 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
565 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
566 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
567 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
568 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
569 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
570 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
571 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
572 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
574 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
575 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
576 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
577 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
578 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
580 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
583 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
584 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
587 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
588 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
591 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
593 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
596 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
600 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
601 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
605 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
606 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
610 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
611 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
614 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
615 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
617 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
618 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
623 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
624 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
628 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
629 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
633 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
634 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
638 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
639 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
643 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
644 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
648 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
649 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
650 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
651 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
652 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
653 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
654 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
655 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
656 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
657 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
658 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
659 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
660 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
661 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
662 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
664 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
665 Source field descriptions.
666 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
667 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
668 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
669 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
670 description says otherwise.
672 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
674 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
678 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
679 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
680 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
681 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
682 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
684 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
685 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
687 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
689 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
690 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
691 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
694 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
695 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
697 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
699 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
700 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
701 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
702 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
706 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
707 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
708 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
709 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
710 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
712 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
713 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
714 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
715 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
717 * Add myself to Uploaders.
720 * Add myself to Uploaders.
721 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
723 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
724 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
725 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
727 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
729 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
732 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
736 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
737 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
739 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
741 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
742 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
746 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
747 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
748 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
749 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
751 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
752 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
753 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
756 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
757 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
758 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
759 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
761 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
762 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
763 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
764 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
766 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
767 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
769 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
771 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
772 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
773 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
774 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
776 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
777 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
781 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
782 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
785 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
787 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
788 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
789 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
790 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
791 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
792 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
793 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
794 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
795 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
796 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
797 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
798 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
799 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
800 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
801 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
802 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
803 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
804 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
805 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
806 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
807 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
808 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
809 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
810 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
811 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
812 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
813 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
814 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
815 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
816 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
818 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
819 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
820 links was completed long ago.
821 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
823 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
825 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
828 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
830 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
832 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
835 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
836 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
837 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
838 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
839 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
840 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
841 Millan (Closes: #209008).
842 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
843 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
845 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
847 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
849 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
850 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
851 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
852 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
853 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
854 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
855 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
857 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
858 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
859 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
860 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
862 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
863 Küster (Closes: #403391).
864 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
865 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
866 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
867 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
868 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
869 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
870 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
871 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
872 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
873 Closes: #186700, #458910
874 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
875 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
876 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
878 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
879 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
880 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
881 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
882 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
883 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
884 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
885 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
887 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
888 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
890 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
891 * Add an md5sums control file.
892 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
893 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
894 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
895 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
896 currently part of policy.
897 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
898 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
899 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
902 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
904 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
907 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
908 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
909 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
910 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
911 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
912 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
913 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
914 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
915 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
916 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
917 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
918 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
919 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
920 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
921 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
923 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
925 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
926 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
927 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
929 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
930 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
931 list?" (Closes: #412634).
932 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
933 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
934 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
935 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
936 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
937 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
938 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
939 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
940 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
941 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
942 debconf specification.
943 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
944 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
946 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
948 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
951 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
952 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
953 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
954 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
956 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
958 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
959 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
960 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
961 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
962 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
964 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
965 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
966 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
967 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
968 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
969 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
970 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
971 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
972 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
973 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
974 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
975 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
976 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
977 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
978 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
979 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
981 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
983 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
984 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
985 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
986 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
987 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
988 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
989 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
990 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
992 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
994 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
997 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
998 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
999 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1000 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1001 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1002 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1004 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1005 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1006 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1007 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1008 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1009 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1010 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1011 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1012 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1013 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1015 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1016 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1017 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1018 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1019 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1020 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1022 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1024 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1027 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1028 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1029 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1031 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1032 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1034 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1036 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1039 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1040 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1041 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1042 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1043 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1044 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1045 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1046 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1047 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1049 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1050 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1051 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1052 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1053 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1054 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1055 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1056 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1057 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1058 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1059 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1062 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1064 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1067 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1068 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1069 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1070 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1071 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1072 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1073 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1074 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1075 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1076 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1077 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1078 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1079 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1080 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1081 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1082 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1083 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1084 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1085 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1086 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1087 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1088 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1089 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1090 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1091 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1092 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1093 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1095 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1096 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1097 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1098 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1099 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1100 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1101 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1102 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1103 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1104 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1105 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1106 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1107 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1108 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1109 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1110 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1112 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1113 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1115 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1116 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1117 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1118 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1119 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1120 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1121 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1122 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1123 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1124 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1125 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1127 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1129 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1133 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1134 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1135 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1137 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1138 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1139 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1140 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1141 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1142 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1143 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1144 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1146 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1147 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1149 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1150 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1151 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1152 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1153 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1154 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1155 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1156 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1157 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1158 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1159 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1160 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1161 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1162 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1163 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1164 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1167 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1169 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1172 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1173 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1174 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1176 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1177 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1178 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1179 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1181 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1183 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1187 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1188 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1189 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1190 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1191 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1192 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1193 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1194 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1195 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1197 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1198 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1199 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1201 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1202 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1203 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1204 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1205 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1206 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1207 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1209 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1210 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1211 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1212 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1214 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1215 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1216 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1217 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1218 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1219 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1220 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1221 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1224 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1225 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1226 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1227 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1228 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1229 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1230 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1231 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1232 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1233 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1234 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1235 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1236 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1237 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1238 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1239 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1241 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1243 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1247 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1248 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1249 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1250 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1251 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1252 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1253 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1254 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1256 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1257 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1258 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1259 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1260 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1261 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1262 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1263 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1264 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1265 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1266 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1267 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1268 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1269 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1270 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1271 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1272 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1274 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1275 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1276 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1279 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1280 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1281 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1283 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1284 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1285 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1286 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1287 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1288 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1290 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1291 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1293 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1294 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1295 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1296 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1297 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1298 Closes: #185943, #237049
1300 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1302 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1308 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1309 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1310 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1311 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1312 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1313 running. closes: Bug#187250
1314 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1315 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1316 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1317 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1318 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1319 user closes: Bug#176506
1321 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1323 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1327 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1328 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1329 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1330 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1331 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1332 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1333 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1334 deb-building toolchain.
1335 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1336 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1337 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1338 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1339 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1340 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1341 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1342 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1343 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1344 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1345 sections about changelog files.
1347 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1348 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1349 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1350 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1351 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1352 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1354 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1355 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1356 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1357 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1358 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1359 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1360 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1361 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1362 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1363 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1364 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1365 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1366 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1367 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1368 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1369 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1370 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1371 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1372 for the restructuring
1374 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1376 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1381 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1382 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1383 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1384 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1385 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1386 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1388 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1389 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1390 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1391 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1392 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1393 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1394 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1396 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1397 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1398 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1399 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1401 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1403 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1407 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1408 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1409 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1410 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1411 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1413 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1414 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1415 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1416 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1418 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1419 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1420 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1421 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1422 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1423 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1424 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1425 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1426 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1427 offtopic stuff, too.
1428 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1429 script should start it, closes: #60979
1430 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1431 "should", closes: #170019
1432 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1433 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1434 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1435 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1436 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1437 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1438 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1439 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1442 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1444 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1448 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1449 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1450 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1451 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1452 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1453 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1454 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1455 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1457 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1458 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1459 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1460 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1461 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1462 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1463 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1464 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1465 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1467 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1468 file, closes: Bug#65764
1470 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1472 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1475 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1476 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1477 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1478 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1479 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1480 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1481 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1482 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1483 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1484 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1485 details. closes: Bug#133030
1486 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1487 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1488 parts of Bug#161455.
1490 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1492 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1495 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1496 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1497 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1498 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1499 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1500 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1501 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1502 not. closes: Bug#139820
1503 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1504 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1505 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1506 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1507 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1508 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1509 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1510 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1511 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1512 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1514 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1516 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1517 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1518 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1519 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1520 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1521 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1522 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1523 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1524 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1525 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1526 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1527 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1528 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1529 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1530 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1531 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1532 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1533 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1534 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1535 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1537 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1538 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1539 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1540 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1541 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1542 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1543 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1545 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1546 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1547 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1548 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1549 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1550 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1551 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1552 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1553 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1555 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1557 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1560 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1561 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1562 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1563 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1564 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1565 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1566 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1567 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1568 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1569 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1570 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1571 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1572 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1573 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1574 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1575 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1576 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1577 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1578 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1579 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1580 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1581 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1583 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1585 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1588 medium, high, emergency.
1589 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1590 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1591 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1592 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1593 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1596 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1597 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1598 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1600 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1601 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1602 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1603 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1604 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1605 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1606 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1609 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1611 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1614 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1615 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1616 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1618 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1619 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1620 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1621 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1622 debian/rules to do this
1623 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1624 patches are incorporated upstream
1625 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1626 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1627 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1628 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1629 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1630 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1632 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1633 system closes: Bug#91249
1634 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1635 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1636 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1637 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1638 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1639 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1640 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1641 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1642 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1643 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1644 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1645 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1646 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1648 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1650 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1653 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1654 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1655 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1657 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1658 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1659 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1661 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1664 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1666 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1669 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1670 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1671 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1672 package for the time being
1673 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1674 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1675 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1676 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1677 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1678 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1679 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1680 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1681 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1682 Build-Depends arch syntax
1683 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1685 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1686 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1688 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1689 from policy maintenance duties.
1690 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1691 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1693 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1695 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1699 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1701 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1704 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1705 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1706 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1707 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1708 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1709 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1710 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1711 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1712 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1713 minor version number for this
1714 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1715 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1716 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1717 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1718 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1719 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1720 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1721 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1722 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1724 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1726 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1729 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1730 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1731 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1732 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1734 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1736 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1737 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1738 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1739 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1740 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1741 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1742 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1743 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1744 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1745 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1746 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1747 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1748 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1749 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1750 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1751 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1754 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1756 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1759 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1761 * Document the Enhances relationship
1762 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1763 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1764 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1765 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1766 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1767 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1769 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1771 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1772 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1773 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1774 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1776 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1777 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1778 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1779 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1780 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1782 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1784 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1787 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1788 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1790 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1791 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1792 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1793 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1794 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1795 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1796 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1797 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1798 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1800 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1802 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1804 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1807 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1808 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1809 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1810 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1811 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1812 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1813 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1814 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1815 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1816 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1817 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1818 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1819 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1820 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1821 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1822 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1823 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1824 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1825 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1826 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1827 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1829 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1830 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1832 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1834 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1837 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1838 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1839 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1840 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1841 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1842 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1843 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1844 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1845 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1846 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1847 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1848 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1849 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1850 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1851 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1852 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1853 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1854 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1855 list closes: Bug#53756
1856 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1857 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1858 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1859 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1860 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1861 policy closes: Bug#53760
1862 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1863 policy closes: Bug#53761
1864 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1865 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1866 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1867 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1868 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1869 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1870 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1871 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1872 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1873 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1874 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1876 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1877 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1878 to install with older fileutils.
1879 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1880 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1881 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1882 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1884 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1885 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1887 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1889 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1892 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1894 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1896 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1899 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1901 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1904 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1907 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1909 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1911 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1913 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1916 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1918 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1920 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1923 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1924 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1925 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1926 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1927 directoried (closes: #41547)
1928 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1929 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1930 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1931 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1932 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1933 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1934 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1935 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1936 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1937 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1938 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1940 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1941 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1942 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1943 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1944 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1945 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1946 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1948 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1949 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1950 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1951 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1953 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1955 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1957 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1958 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1960 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1962 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1965 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1967 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1969 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1972 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1974 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1975 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1976 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1977 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1978 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1979 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1980 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1981 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1982 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1983 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1984 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1985 this closes: Bug#38612
1986 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1987 before. closes: Bug#40864
1989 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1991 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1994 officially uploaded.
1995 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1997 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1998 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1999 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2001 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2002 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2003 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2004 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2005 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2006 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2008 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2009 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2010 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2012 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2014 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2015 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2016 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2017 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2018 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2020 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2022 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2025 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2026 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2027 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2028 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2029 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2030 there). closes: Bug#34233
2031 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2032 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2033 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2034 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2035 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2037 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2039 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2042 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2043 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2044 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2047 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2048 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2049 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2050 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2051 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2054 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2055 number. closes: BUG#25911
2057 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2058 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2059 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2060 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2061 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2062 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2064 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2065 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2066 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2069 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2070 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2071 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2073 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2074 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2075 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2076 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2078 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2079 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2080 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2082 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2084 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2085 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2086 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2087 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2088 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2089 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2090 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2091 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2094 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2096 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2097 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2100 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2102 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2106 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2108 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2111 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2112 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2113 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2114 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2115 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2116 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2117 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2119 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2120 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2122 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2124 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2126 * non-maintainer release
2127 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2128 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2130 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2131 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2132 * no content changes
2133 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2135 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2137 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2141 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2143 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2147 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2148 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2149 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2151 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2152 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2154 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2155 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2156 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2157 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2159 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2160 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2161 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2162 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2163 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2164 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2165 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2167 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2168 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2169 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2172 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2173 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2174 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2176 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2177 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2178 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2180 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2181 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2183 * New version numbering scheme:
2185 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2186 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2187 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2190 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2191 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2192 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2193 differ between the manuals.
2195 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2196 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2197 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2198 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2200 * Packaging changes:
2202 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2203 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2205 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2207 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2209 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2213 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2214 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2215 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2217 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2218 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2221 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2222 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2223 file extension as the referenced file
2225 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2226 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2228 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2229 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2230 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2231 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2234 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2235 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2236 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2238 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2239 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2240 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2241 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2244 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2245 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2248 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2249 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2250 reasonable default configuration
2252 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2253 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2254 by all news servers and clients
2256 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2257 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2258 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2259 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2260 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2262 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2263 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2266 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2268 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2269 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2271 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2274 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2275 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2277 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2278 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2280 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2282 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2284 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2287 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2288 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2289 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2291 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2293 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2294 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2295 * Don't use debstd anymore
2297 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2299 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2302 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2303 contrib/non-free policy
2304 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2305 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2306 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2307 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2308 - new section about `Daemons'
2309 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2310 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2311 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2312 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2313 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2314 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2315 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2316 * SGML source code included in package
2317 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2319 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2321 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2324 - completely reworked structure
2325 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2326 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2327 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2328 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2329 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2330 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2331 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2332 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2333 - mention "orphaned packages"
2334 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2335 distributions' policy
2336 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2337 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2338 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2339 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2340 - added section about arch spec strings
2341 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2342 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2343 - added section about "menus"
2344 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2345 the new documentation policy soon
2346 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2347 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2349 - added section about editors and pagers
2350 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2351 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2352 - added section about device files
2353 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2354 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2355 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2357 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2358 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2359 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2360 - Added new section about obsolete names
2361 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2362 * Fixed package's description
2364 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2366 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2370 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2372 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2375 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2376 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2377 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2379 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2381 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2384 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2385 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2387 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2388 and upload it "byhand" too.
2390 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2392 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2396 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2397 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2398 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2399 functionality must not have the same name.
2400 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2401 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2402 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2403 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2404 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2405 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2406 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2408 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2409 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2410 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2411 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2412 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2413 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2414 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2415 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2418 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2420 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2422 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2424 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2425 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2426 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2427 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2428 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2431 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2433 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2435 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2437 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2438 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2439 description of deb file format.
2440 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2441 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2443 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2445 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2446 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2448 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2450 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2452 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2453 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2454 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2455 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2456 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2457 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2458 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2459 packages in section on Procedure
2460 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2461 a package maintainer
2462 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2463 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2464 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2466 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2467 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2468 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2469 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2470 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2471 on various shlib files
2472 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2473 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2474 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2476 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2478 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2480 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2481 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2482 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2484 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2485 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2486 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2487 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2488 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2490 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2492 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2494 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2496 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2498 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2499 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2500 compatibility go in contrib.
2502 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2503 instructions in policy manual.
2504 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2507 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2509 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2511 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2512 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2513 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2514 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2516 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2517 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2520 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2522 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2524 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2525 * More detail about changelog format names.
2527 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2528 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2532 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2534 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2536 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2538 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2540 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2542 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2544 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2546 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2547 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2548 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2550 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2552 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2554 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2556 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2558 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2562 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100