1 debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
4 * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
5 Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
10 * Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.
11 Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
17 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:01:58 +0100
19 debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
22 for the help. Closes: #769219
24 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:55:55 +0100
26 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
29 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
30 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
32 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
33 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
34 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
35 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
36 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
37 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
38 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
39 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
40 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
42 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
44 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
45 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
51 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
52 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
56 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
57 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
61 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
62 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
66 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
68 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
73 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
74 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
76 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
79 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
83 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
84 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
86 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
88 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
89 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
93 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
94 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
95 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
98 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
99 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
101 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
104 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
105 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
106 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
107 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
109 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
112 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
114 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
117 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
121 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
122 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
127 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
128 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
132 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
133 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
134 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
135 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
139 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
140 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
141 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
144 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
145 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
149 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
150 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
152 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
154 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
155 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
156 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
160 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
161 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
165 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
166 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
168 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
170 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
171 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
172 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
175 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
176 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
177 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
180 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
181 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
182 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
183 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
185 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
186 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
187 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
188 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
189 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
190 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
191 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
192 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
193 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
194 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
195 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
196 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
198 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
199 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
200 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
201 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
203 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
205 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
207 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
208 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
209 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
211 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
212 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
213 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
214 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
219 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
220 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
225 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
229 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
230 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
231 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
232 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
236 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
237 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
241 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
242 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
243 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
244 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
247 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
248 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
249 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
252 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
253 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
258 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
260 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
263 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
264 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
265 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
266 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
268 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
269 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
270 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
271 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
272 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
273 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
274 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
275 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
276 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
277 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
278 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
279 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
280 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
281 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
282 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
283 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
284 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
286 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
287 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
288 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
289 good to know which version one is looking at.
290 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
291 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
292 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
293 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
294 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
295 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
296 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
298 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
299 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
300 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
301 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
302 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
304 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
305 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
306 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
308 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
309 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
310 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
311 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
313 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
315 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
319 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
320 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
321 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
322 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
323 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
324 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
325 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
326 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
327 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
328 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
333 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
334 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
339 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
340 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
341 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
344 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
346 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
347 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
351 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
352 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
355 Closes: #620870, #532120
356 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
357 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
362 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
363 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
364 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
368 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
369 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
370 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
371 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
372 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
374 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
375 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
376 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
377 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
378 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
379 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
380 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
381 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
382 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
383 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
384 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
385 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
386 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
387 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
388 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
389 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
391 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
393 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
394 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
395 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
396 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
397 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
398 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
399 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
400 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
401 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
402 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
405 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
407 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
408 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
409 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
410 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
415 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
416 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
418 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
419 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
420 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
421 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
424 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
426 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
430 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
431 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
432 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
435 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
436 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
437 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
439 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
440 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
446 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
447 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
448 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
451 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
452 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
457 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
458 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
459 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
460 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
463 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
464 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
465 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
468 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
469 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
474 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
476 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
479 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
482 Closes: #459868, #581011
483 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
484 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
486 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
488 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
489 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
491 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
493 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
494 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
495 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
496 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
498 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
499 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
500 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
501 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
503 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
504 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
507 Closes: #501930, #593909
508 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
509 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
513 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
514 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
515 machine. (Closes: #591857)
516 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
517 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
518 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
519 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
520 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
521 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
522 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
523 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
524 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
525 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
527 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
528 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
529 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
530 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
531 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
532 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
533 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
534 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
535 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
536 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
537 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
538 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
539 than the version in oldstable.
540 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
541 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
542 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
543 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
544 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
545 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
546 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
547 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
548 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
549 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
550 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
551 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
552 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
553 package. (Closes: #609160)
555 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
557 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
560 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
561 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
562 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
565 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
566 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
567 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
570 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
571 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
572 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
575 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
576 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
580 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
581 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
585 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
586 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
590 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
591 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
595 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
596 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
598 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
600 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
601 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
603 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
605 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
606 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
611 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
612 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
617 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
618 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
622 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
623 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
627 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
628 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
632 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
633 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
637 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
638 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
642 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
643 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
647 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
649 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
650 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
651 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
652 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
653 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
654 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
655 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
656 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
657 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
659 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
660 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
661 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
662 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
663 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
664 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
666 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
668 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
674 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
677 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
678 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
679 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
680 and distribution license' (three times).
681 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
682 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
683 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
684 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
685 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
687 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
689 Proposed by Santiago Vila
690 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
691 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
697 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
698 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
699 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
702 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
703 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
704 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
706 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
707 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
709 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
710 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
714 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
715 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
718 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
720 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
721 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
724 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
726 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
727 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
730 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
732 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
733 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
734 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
737 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
738 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
740 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
741 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
743 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
744 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
746 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
748 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
749 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
753 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
754 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
755 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
759 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
760 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
761 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
764 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
765 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
766 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
770 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
771 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
772 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
773 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
775 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
776 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
777 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
778 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
779 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
780 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
781 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
782 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
783 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
784 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
785 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
786 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
787 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
788 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
789 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
790 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
791 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
792 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
793 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
794 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
795 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
796 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
797 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
798 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
799 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
800 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
801 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
802 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
803 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
804 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
805 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
806 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
808 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
810 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
812 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
816 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
818 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
819 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
823 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
826 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
827 Wording: Steve Langasek.
828 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
829 Seconded: Julien Cristau
830 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
833 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
834 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
835 Seconded: Russ Allbery
836 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
839 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
840 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
841 Seconded: Russ Allbery
843 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
844 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
845 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
846 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
847 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
848 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
849 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
850 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
851 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
853 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
854 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
855 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
856 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
857 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
858 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
859 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
860 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
861 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
862 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
863 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
864 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
865 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
866 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
867 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
868 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
870 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
871 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
872 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
873 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
874 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
876 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
879 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
880 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
881 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
882 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
883 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
884 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
887 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
889 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
891 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
892 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
893 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
894 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
896 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
897 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
898 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
899 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
901 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
902 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
903 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
904 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
906 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
907 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
908 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
909 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
910 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
911 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
913 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
914 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
915 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
916 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
917 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
919 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
920 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
921 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
922 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
924 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
925 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
926 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
927 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
929 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
930 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
931 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
932 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
934 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
935 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
936 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
937 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
939 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
940 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
941 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
942 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
944 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
945 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
946 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
947 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
948 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
949 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
950 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
951 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
952 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
953 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
954 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
955 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
956 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
957 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
958 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
960 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
961 Source field descriptions.
962 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
963 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
964 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
965 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
966 description says otherwise.
968 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
970 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
974 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
975 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
976 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
977 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
978 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
980 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
981 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
982 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
983 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
985 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
986 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
987 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
988 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
990 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
991 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
992 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
993 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
995 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
996 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
997 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
998 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
1002 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
1003 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
1004 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
1005 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
1006 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
1008 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
1009 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1010 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1011 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1013 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1016 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1017 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
1019 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
1020 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
1021 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
1023 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1025 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1028 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1029 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1030 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1032 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1033 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1034 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1035 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1037 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1038 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1039 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1040 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1042 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1043 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1044 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1045 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1047 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1048 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1049 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1050 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1052 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1053 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1054 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1055 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1057 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1058 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1059 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1060 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1062 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1063 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1064 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1065 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1067 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1068 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1069 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1070 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1072 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1073 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1074 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1075 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1077 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1078 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1079 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1080 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1081 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1083 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1084 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1085 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1086 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1087 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1088 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1089 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1090 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1091 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1092 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1093 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1094 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1095 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1096 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1097 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1098 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1099 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1100 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1101 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1102 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1103 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1104 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1105 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1106 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1107 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1108 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1109 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1110 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1111 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1112 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1114 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1115 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1116 links was completed long ago.
1117 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1119 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1121 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1124 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1126 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1128 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1131 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1132 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1133 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1134 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1135 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1136 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1137 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1138 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1139 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1141 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1143 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1145 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1146 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1147 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1148 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1149 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1150 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1151 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1153 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1154 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1155 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1156 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1158 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1159 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1160 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1161 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1162 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1163 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1164 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1165 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1166 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1167 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1168 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1169 Closes: #186700, #458910
1170 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1171 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1172 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1174 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1175 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1176 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1177 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1178 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1179 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1180 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1181 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1183 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1184 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1186 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1187 * Add an md5sums control file.
1188 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1189 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1190 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1191 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1192 currently part of policy.
1193 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1194 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1195 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1198 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1200 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1203 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1204 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1205 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1206 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1207 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1208 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1209 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1210 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1211 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1212 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1213 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1214 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1215 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1216 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1217 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1219 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1221 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1222 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1223 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1225 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1226 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1227 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1228 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1229 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1230 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1231 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1232 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1233 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1234 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1235 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1236 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1237 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1238 debconf specification.
1239 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1240 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1242 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1244 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1247 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1248 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1249 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1250 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1252 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1254 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1255 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1256 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1257 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1258 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1260 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1261 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1262 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1263 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1264 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1265 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1266 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1267 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1268 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1269 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1270 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1271 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1272 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1274 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1275 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1277 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1279 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1280 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1281 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1282 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1284 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1285 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1286 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1288 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1290 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1293 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1294 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1296 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1297 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1298 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1300 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1301 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1302 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1303 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1304 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1305 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1306 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1307 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1308 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1309 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1311 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1312 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1313 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1314 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1315 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1316 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1318 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1320 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1323 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1324 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1325 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1327 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1328 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1330 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1332 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1335 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1336 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1337 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1338 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1339 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1340 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1341 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1342 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1343 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1345 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1346 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1347 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1348 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1349 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1350 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1351 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1352 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1353 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1354 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1355 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1358 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1360 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1363 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1364 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1365 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1366 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1367 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1368 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1369 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1370 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1371 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1372 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1373 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1374 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1375 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1376 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1377 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1378 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1379 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1380 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1381 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1382 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1383 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1384 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1385 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1386 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1387 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1388 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1389 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1391 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1392 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1393 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1394 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1395 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1396 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1397 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1398 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1399 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1400 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1401 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1402 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1403 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1404 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1405 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1406 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1408 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1409 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1411 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1412 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1413 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1414 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1415 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1416 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1417 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1418 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1419 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1420 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1421 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1423 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1425 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1429 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1430 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1431 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1432 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1433 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1434 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1435 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1436 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1437 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1438 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1439 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1440 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1442 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1443 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1444 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1445 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1446 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1447 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1448 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1449 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1450 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1451 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1452 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1453 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1454 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1455 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1456 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1457 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1458 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1459 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1460 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1463 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1465 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1468 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1469 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1470 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1472 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1473 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1474 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1475 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1477 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1479 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1483 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1484 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1485 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1486 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1487 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1488 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1489 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1490 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1491 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1493 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1494 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1495 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1497 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1498 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1499 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1500 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1501 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1502 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1503 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1505 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1506 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1507 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1508 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1510 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1511 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1512 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1513 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1514 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1515 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1516 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1517 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1519 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1520 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1521 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1522 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1523 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1524 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1525 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1526 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1527 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1528 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1529 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1530 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1531 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1532 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1533 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1534 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1535 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1537 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1539 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1543 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1544 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1545 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1546 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1547 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1548 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1549 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1550 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1552 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1553 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1554 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1555 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1556 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1557 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1558 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1559 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1560 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1561 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1562 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1563 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1564 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1565 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1566 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1567 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1568 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1570 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1571 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1572 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1575 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1576 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1577 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1579 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1580 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1581 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1582 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1583 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1584 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1586 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1587 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1589 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1590 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1591 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1592 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1593 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1594 Closes: #185943, #237049
1596 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1598 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1604 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1605 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1606 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1607 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1608 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1609 running. closes: Bug#187250
1610 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1611 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1612 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1613 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1614 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1615 user closes: Bug#176506
1617 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1619 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1623 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1624 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1625 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1626 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1627 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1628 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1629 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1630 deb-building toolchain.
1631 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1632 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1633 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1634 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1635 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1636 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1637 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1638 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1639 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1640 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1641 sections about changelog files.
1643 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1644 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1645 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1646 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1647 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1648 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1650 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1651 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1652 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1653 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1654 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1655 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1656 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1657 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1658 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1659 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1660 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1661 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1662 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1663 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1664 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1665 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1666 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1667 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1668 for the restructuring
1670 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1672 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1677 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1678 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1679 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1680 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1681 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1682 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1684 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1685 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1686 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1687 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1688 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1689 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1690 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1692 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1693 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1694 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1695 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1697 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1699 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1703 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1704 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1705 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1706 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1707 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1709 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1710 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1711 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1712 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1714 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1715 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1716 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1717 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1718 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1719 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1720 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1721 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1722 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1723 offtopic stuff, too.
1724 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1725 script should start it, closes: #60979
1726 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1727 "should", closes: #170019
1728 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1729 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1730 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1731 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1732 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1733 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1734 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1735 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1738 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1740 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1744 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1745 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1746 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1747 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1748 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1749 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1750 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1751 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1753 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1754 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1755 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1756 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1757 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1758 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1759 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1760 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1761 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1763 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1764 file, closes: Bug#65764
1766 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1768 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1771 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1772 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1773 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1774 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1775 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1776 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1777 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1778 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1779 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1780 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1781 details. closes: Bug#133030
1782 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1783 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1784 parts of Bug#161455.
1786 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1788 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1791 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1792 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1793 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1794 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1795 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1796 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1797 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1798 not. closes: Bug#139820
1799 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1800 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1801 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1802 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1803 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1804 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1805 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1806 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1807 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1808 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1810 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1812 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1813 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1814 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1815 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1816 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1817 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1818 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1819 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1820 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1821 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1822 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1823 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1824 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1825 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1826 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1827 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1828 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1829 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1830 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1831 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1833 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1834 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1835 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1836 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1837 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1838 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1839 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1841 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1842 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1843 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1844 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1845 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1846 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1847 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1848 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1849 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1851 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1853 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1856 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1857 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1858 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1859 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1860 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1861 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1862 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1863 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1864 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1865 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1866 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1867 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1868 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1869 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1870 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1871 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1872 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1873 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1874 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1875 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1876 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1877 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1879 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1881 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1884 medium, high, emergency.
1885 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1886 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1887 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1888 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1889 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1892 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1893 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1894 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1896 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1897 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1898 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1899 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1900 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1901 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1902 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1905 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1907 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1910 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1911 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1912 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1914 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1915 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1916 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1917 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1918 debian/rules to do this
1919 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1920 patches are incorporated upstream
1921 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1922 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1923 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1924 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1925 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1926 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1928 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1929 system closes: Bug#91249
1930 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1931 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1932 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1933 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1934 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1935 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1936 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1937 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1938 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1939 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1940 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1941 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1942 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1944 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1946 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1949 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1950 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1951 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1953 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1954 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1955 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1957 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1960 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1962 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1965 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1966 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1967 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1968 package for the time being
1969 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1970 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1971 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1972 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1973 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1974 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1975 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1976 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1977 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1978 Build-Depends arch syntax
1979 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1981 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1982 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1984 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1985 from policy maintenance duties.
1986 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1987 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1989 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1991 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1995 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1997 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
2000 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
2001 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
2002 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
2003 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
2004 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
2005 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
2006 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
2007 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
2008 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
2009 minor version number for this
2010 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
2011 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
2012 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
2013 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
2014 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
2015 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
2016 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
2017 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
2018 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
2020 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
2022 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2025 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2026 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2027 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2028 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2030 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2032 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2033 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2034 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2035 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2036 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2037 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2038 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2039 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2040 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2041 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2042 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2043 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2044 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2045 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2046 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2047 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2050 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2052 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2055 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2057 * Document the Enhances relationship
2058 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2059 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2060 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2061 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2062 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2063 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2065 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2067 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2068 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2069 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2070 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2072 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2073 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2074 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2075 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2076 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2078 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2080 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2083 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2084 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2086 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2087 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2088 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2089 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2090 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2091 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2092 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2093 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2094 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2096 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2098 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2100 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2103 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2104 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2105 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2106 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2107 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2108 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2109 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2110 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2111 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2112 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2113 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2114 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2115 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2116 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2117 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2118 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2119 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2120 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2121 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2122 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2123 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2125 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2126 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2128 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2130 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2133 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2134 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2135 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2136 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2137 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2138 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2139 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2140 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2141 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2142 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2143 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2144 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2145 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2146 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2147 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2148 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2149 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2150 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2151 list closes: Bug#53756
2152 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2153 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2154 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2155 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2156 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2157 policy closes: Bug#53760
2158 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2159 policy closes: Bug#53761
2160 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2161 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2162 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2163 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2164 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2165 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2166 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2167 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2168 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2169 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2170 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2172 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2173 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2174 to install with older fileutils.
2175 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2176 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2177 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2178 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2180 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2181 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2183 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2185 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2188 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2190 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2192 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2195 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2197 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2200 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2203 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2205 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2207 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2209 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2212 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2214 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2216 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2219 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2220 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2221 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2222 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2223 directoried (closes: #41547)
2224 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2225 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2226 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2227 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2228 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2229 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2230 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2231 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2232 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2233 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2234 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2236 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2237 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2238 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2239 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2240 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2241 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2242 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2244 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2245 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2246 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2247 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2249 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2251 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2253 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2254 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2256 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2258 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2261 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2263 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2265 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2268 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2270 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2271 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2272 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2273 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2274 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2275 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2276 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2277 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2278 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2279 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2280 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2281 this closes: Bug#38612
2282 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2283 before. closes: Bug#40864
2285 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2287 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2290 officially uploaded.
2291 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2293 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2294 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2295 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2297 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2298 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2299 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2300 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2301 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2302 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2304 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2305 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2306 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2308 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2310 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2311 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2312 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2313 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2314 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2316 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2318 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2321 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2322 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2323 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2324 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2325 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2326 there). closes: Bug#34233
2327 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2328 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2329 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2330 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2331 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2333 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2335 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2338 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2339 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2340 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2343 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2344 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2345 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2346 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2347 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2350 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2351 number. closes: BUG#25911
2353 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2354 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2355 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2356 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2357 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2358 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2360 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2361 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2362 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2365 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2366 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2367 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2369 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2370 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2371 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2372 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2374 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2375 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2376 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2378 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2380 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2381 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2382 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2383 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2384 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2385 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2386 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2387 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2390 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2392 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2393 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2396 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2398 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2402 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2404 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2407 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2408 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2409 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2410 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2411 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2412 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2413 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2415 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2416 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2418 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2420 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2422 * non-maintainer release
2423 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2424 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2426 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2427 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2428 * no content changes
2429 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2431 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2433 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2437 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2439 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2443 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2444 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2445 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2447 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2448 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2450 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2451 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2452 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2453 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2455 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2456 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2457 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2458 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2459 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2460 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2461 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2463 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2464 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2465 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2468 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2469 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2470 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2472 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2473 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2474 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2476 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2477 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2479 * New version numbering scheme:
2481 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2482 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2483 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2486 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2487 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2488 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2489 differ between the manuals.
2491 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2492 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2493 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2494 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2496 * Packaging changes:
2498 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2499 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2501 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2503 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2505 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2509 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2510 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2511 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2513 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2514 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2517 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2518 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2519 file extension as the referenced file
2521 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2522 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2524 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2525 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2526 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2527 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2530 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2531 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2532 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2534 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2535 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2536 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2537 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2540 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2541 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2544 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2545 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2546 reasonable default configuration
2548 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2549 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2550 by all news servers and clients
2552 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2553 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2554 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2555 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2556 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2558 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2559 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2562 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2564 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2565 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2567 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2570 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2571 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2573 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2574 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2576 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2578 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2580 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2583 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2584 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2585 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2587 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2589 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2590 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2591 * Don't use debstd anymore
2593 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2595 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2598 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2599 contrib/non-free policy
2600 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2601 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2602 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2603 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2604 - new section about `Daemons'
2605 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2606 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2607 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2608 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2609 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2610 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2611 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2612 * SGML source code included in package
2613 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2615 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2617 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2620 - completely reworked structure
2621 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2622 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2623 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2624 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2625 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2626 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2627 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2628 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2629 - mention "orphaned packages"
2630 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2631 distributions' policy
2632 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2633 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2634 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2635 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2636 - added section about arch spec strings
2637 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2638 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2639 - added section about "menus"
2640 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2641 the new documentation policy soon
2642 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2643 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2645 - added section about editors and pagers
2646 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2647 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2648 - added section about device files
2649 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2650 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2651 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2653 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2654 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2655 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2656 - Added new section about obsolete names
2657 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2658 * Fixed package's description
2660 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2662 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2666 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2668 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2671 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2672 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2673 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2675 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2677 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2680 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2681 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2683 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2684 and upload it "byhand" too.
2686 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2688 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2692 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2693 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2694 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2695 functionality must not have the same name.
2696 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2697 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2698 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2699 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2700 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2701 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2702 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2704 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2705 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2706 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2707 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2708 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2709 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2710 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2711 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2714 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2716 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2718 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2720 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2721 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2722 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2723 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2724 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2727 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2729 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2731 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2733 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2734 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2735 description of deb file format.
2736 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2737 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2739 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2741 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2742 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2744 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2746 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2748 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2749 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2750 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2751 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2752 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2753 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2754 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2755 packages in section on Procedure
2756 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2757 a package maintainer
2758 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2759 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2760 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2762 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2763 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2764 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2765 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2766 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2767 on various shlib files
2768 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2769 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2770 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2772 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2774 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2776 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2777 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2778 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2780 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2781 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2782 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2783 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2784 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2786 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2788 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2790 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2792 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2794 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2795 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2796 compatibility go in contrib.
2798 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2799 instructions in policy manual.
2800 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2803 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2805 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2807 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2808 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2809 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2810 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2812 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2813 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2816 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2818 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2820 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2821 * More detail about changelog format names.
2823 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2824 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2828 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2830 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2832 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2834 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2836 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2838 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2840 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2842 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2843 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2844 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2846 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2848 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2850 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2852 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2854 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2858 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100