1 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
4 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
5 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
6 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
9 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
11 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
12 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
17 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
21 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
22 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
23 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
24 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
28 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
29 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
34 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:30:33 -0700
36 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
39 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
40 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
41 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
42 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
44 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
45 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
46 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
47 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
48 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
49 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
50 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
51 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
52 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
53 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
54 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
55 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
56 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
57 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
58 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
59 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
60 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
62 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
63 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
64 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
65 good to know which version one is looking at.
66 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
67 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
68 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
69 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
70 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
71 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
72 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
74 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
75 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
76 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
77 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
78 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
80 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
81 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
82 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
84 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
85 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
86 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
87 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
89 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
91 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
95 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
96 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
97 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
98 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
99 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
100 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
101 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
102 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
103 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
104 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
109 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
110 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
115 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
116 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
117 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
120 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
122 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
123 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
127 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
128 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
131 Closes: #620870, #532120
132 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
133 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
138 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
139 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
140 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
144 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
145 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
146 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
147 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
148 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
150 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
151 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
152 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
153 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
154 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
155 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
156 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
157 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
158 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
159 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
160 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
161 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
162 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
163 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
164 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
165 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
167 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
169 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
170 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
171 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
172 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
173 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
174 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
175 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
176 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
177 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
178 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
181 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
183 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
184 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
185 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
186 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
191 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
192 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
194 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
195 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
196 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
197 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
200 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
202 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
206 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
207 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
208 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
211 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
212 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
213 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
215 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
216 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
222 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
223 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
224 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
227 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
228 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
233 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
234 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
235 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
236 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
239 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
240 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
241 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
244 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
245 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
250 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
252 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
255 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
258 Closes: #459868, #581011
259 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
260 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
262 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
264 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
265 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
267 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
269 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
270 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
272 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
274 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
275 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
279 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
280 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
283 Closes: #501930, #593909
284 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
285 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
289 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
290 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
291 machine. (Closes: #591857)
292 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
293 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
294 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
295 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
296 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
297 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
298 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
299 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
300 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
301 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
303 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
304 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
305 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
306 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
307 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
308 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
309 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
310 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
311 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
312 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
313 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
314 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
315 than the version in oldstable.
316 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
317 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
318 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
319 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
320 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
321 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
322 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
323 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
324 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
325 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
326 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
327 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
328 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
329 package. (Closes: #609160)
331 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
333 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
336 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
337 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
341 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
342 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
346 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
347 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
351 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
352 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
356 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
357 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
361 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
362 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
366 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
367 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
371 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
372 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
374 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
376 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
377 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
379 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
381 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
382 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
387 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
388 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
393 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
394 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
398 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
399 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
403 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
404 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
408 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
409 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
413 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
414 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
418 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
419 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
423 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
425 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
426 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
427 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
428 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
429 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
430 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
431 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
432 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
433 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
435 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
436 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
437 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
438 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
439 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
440 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
442 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
444 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
447 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
450 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
453 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
454 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
455 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
456 and distribution license' (three times).
457 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
458 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
463 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
465 Proposed by Santiago Vila
466 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
473 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
474 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
478 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
479 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
480 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
483 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
485 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
486 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
490 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
491 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
494 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
496 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
497 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
500 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
502 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
503 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
506 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
508 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
509 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
510 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
513 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
514 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
516 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
517 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
519 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
520 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
522 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
524 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
525 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
529 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
530 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
535 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
536 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
537 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
540 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
541 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
546 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
547 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
551 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
552 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
553 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
554 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
555 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
556 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
557 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
558 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
559 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
560 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
561 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
562 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
563 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
564 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
565 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
566 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
567 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
568 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
569 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
570 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
571 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
572 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
573 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
574 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
575 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
576 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
577 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
578 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
579 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
580 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
581 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
582 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
584 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
586 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
588 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
592 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
594 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
595 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
599 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
602 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
603 Wording: Steve Langasek.
604 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
605 Seconded: Julien Cristau
606 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
609 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
610 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
611 Seconded: Russ Allbery
612 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
615 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
616 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
617 Seconded: Russ Allbery
619 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
620 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
621 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
622 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
623 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
624 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
625 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
626 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
627 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
629 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
630 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
631 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
632 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
633 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
634 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
635 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
637 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
638 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
639 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
640 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
641 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
642 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
643 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
646 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
647 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
648 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
649 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
650 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
652 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
655 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
656 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
659 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
660 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
663 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
665 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
668 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
669 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
670 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
672 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
673 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
674 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
675 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
677 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
678 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
679 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
680 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
682 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
683 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
684 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
685 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
686 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
687 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
689 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
690 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
691 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
695 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
696 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
697 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
698 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
700 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
701 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
702 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
703 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
705 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
706 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
707 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
708 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
710 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
711 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
713 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
715 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
716 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
718 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
720 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
721 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
722 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
723 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
724 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
725 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
726 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
727 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
728 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
729 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
730 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
731 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
732 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
733 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
734 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
736 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
737 Source field descriptions.
738 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
739 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
740 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
741 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
742 description says otherwise.
744 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
746 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
750 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
753 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
754 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
756 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
757 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
758 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
759 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
761 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
762 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
763 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
764 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
766 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
767 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
769 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
771 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
772 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
773 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
774 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
778 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
779 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
780 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
781 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
782 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
784 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
785 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
786 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
787 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
789 * Add myself to Uploaders.
792 * Add myself to Uploaders.
793 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
795 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
796 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
797 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
799 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
801 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
804 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
805 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
806 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
808 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
809 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
810 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
811 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
813 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
814 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
815 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
816 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
818 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
819 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
820 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
821 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
823 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
824 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
825 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
826 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
828 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
829 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
830 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
831 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
833 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
834 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
835 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
836 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
838 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
839 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
840 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
841 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
843 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
844 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
845 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
846 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
848 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
849 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
850 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
851 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
853 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
854 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
855 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
856 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
857 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
859 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
860 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
861 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
862 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
863 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
864 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
865 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
866 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
867 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
868 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
869 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
870 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
871 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
872 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
873 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
874 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
875 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
876 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
877 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
878 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
879 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
880 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
881 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
882 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
883 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
884 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
885 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
886 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
887 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
888 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
890 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
891 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
892 links was completed long ago.
893 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
895 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
897 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
900 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
902 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
904 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
907 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
908 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
909 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
910 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
911 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
912 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
913 Millan (Closes: #209008).
914 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
915 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
917 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
919 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
921 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
922 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
923 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
924 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
925 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
926 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
927 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
929 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
930 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
931 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
932 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
934 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
935 Küster (Closes: #403391).
936 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
937 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
938 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
939 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
940 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
941 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
942 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
943 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
944 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
945 Closes: #186700, #458910
946 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
947 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
948 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
950 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
951 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
952 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
953 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
954 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
955 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
956 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
957 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
959 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
960 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
962 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
963 * Add an md5sums control file.
964 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
965 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
966 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
967 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
968 currently part of policy.
969 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
970 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
971 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
974 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
976 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
979 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
980 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
981 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
982 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
983 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
984 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
985 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
986 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
987 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
988 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
989 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
990 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
991 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
992 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
993 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
995 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
997 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
998 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
999 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1001 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1002 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1003 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1004 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1005 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1006 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1007 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1008 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1009 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1010 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1011 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1012 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1013 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1014 debconf specification.
1015 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1016 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1018 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1020 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1023 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1025 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1026 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1028 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1030 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1031 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1032 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1033 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1034 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1036 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1037 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1038 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1039 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1040 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1041 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1042 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1043 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1044 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1045 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1046 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1047 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1048 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1049 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1050 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1051 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1053 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1055 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1056 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1057 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1058 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1059 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1060 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1061 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1062 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1064 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1066 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1069 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1070 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1071 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1072 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1073 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1074 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1076 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1077 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1078 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1079 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1080 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1081 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1082 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1083 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1084 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1085 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1087 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1088 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1089 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1090 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1091 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1092 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1094 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1096 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1099 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1100 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1101 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1103 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1104 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1106 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1108 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1111 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1112 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1113 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1114 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1115 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1116 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1117 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1118 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1119 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1121 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1122 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1123 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1124 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1125 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1126 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1127 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1128 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1129 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1130 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1131 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1134 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1136 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1139 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1140 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1141 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1142 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1143 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1144 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1145 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1146 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1147 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1148 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1149 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1150 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1151 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1152 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1153 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1154 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1155 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1156 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1157 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1158 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1159 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1160 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1161 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1162 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1163 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1164 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1165 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1167 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1168 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1169 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1170 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1172 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1173 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1174 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1175 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1176 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1177 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1178 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1179 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1180 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1181 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1182 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1184 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1185 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1187 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1188 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1189 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1190 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1191 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1192 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1193 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1194 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1195 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1196 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1197 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1199 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1201 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1205 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1206 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1207 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1208 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1209 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1210 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1211 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1212 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1213 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1214 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1215 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1216 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1218 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1219 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1220 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1221 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1222 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1224 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1225 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1226 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1227 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1228 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1229 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1230 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1231 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1232 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1233 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1234 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1235 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1236 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1239 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1241 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1244 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1245 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1246 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1248 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1249 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1250 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1251 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1253 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1255 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1259 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1260 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1261 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1262 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1263 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1264 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1265 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1266 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1267 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1269 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1270 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1271 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1274 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1275 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1276 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1277 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1278 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1279 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1281 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1282 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1283 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1284 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1286 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1287 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1288 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1289 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1290 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1291 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1292 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1293 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1296 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1297 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1298 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1299 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1300 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1301 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1302 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1303 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1304 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1305 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1306 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1307 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1308 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1309 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1310 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1311 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1313 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1315 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1319 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1320 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1321 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1322 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1323 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1324 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1325 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1326 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1328 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1329 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1330 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1331 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1332 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1333 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1334 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1335 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1336 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1337 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1338 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1339 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1340 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1341 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1342 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1343 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1344 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1346 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1347 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1348 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1351 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1352 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1353 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1355 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1356 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1357 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1358 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1359 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1360 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1362 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1363 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1365 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1366 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1367 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1368 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1369 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1370 Closes: #185943, #237049
1372 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1374 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1380 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1381 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1382 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1383 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1384 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1385 running. closes: Bug#187250
1386 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1387 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1388 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1389 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1390 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1391 user closes: Bug#176506
1393 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1395 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1399 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1400 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1401 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1402 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1403 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1404 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1405 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1406 deb-building toolchain.
1407 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1408 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1409 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1410 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1411 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1412 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1413 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1414 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1415 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1416 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1417 sections about changelog files.
1419 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1420 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1421 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1422 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1423 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1424 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1426 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1427 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1428 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1429 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1430 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1431 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1432 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1433 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1434 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1435 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1436 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1437 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1438 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1439 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1440 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1441 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1442 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1443 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1444 for the restructuring
1446 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1448 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1453 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1454 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1455 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1456 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1457 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1458 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1460 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1461 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1462 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1463 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1464 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1465 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1466 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1468 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1469 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1470 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1471 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1473 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1475 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1479 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1480 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1481 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1482 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1483 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1485 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1486 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1487 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1488 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1490 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1491 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1492 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1493 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1494 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1495 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1496 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1497 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1498 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1499 offtopic stuff, too.
1500 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1501 script should start it, closes: #60979
1502 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1503 "should", closes: #170019
1504 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1505 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1506 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1507 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1508 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1509 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1510 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1511 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1514 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1516 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1520 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1521 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1522 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1523 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1524 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1525 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1526 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1527 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1529 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1530 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1531 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1532 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1533 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1534 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1535 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1536 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1537 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1539 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1540 file, closes: Bug#65764
1542 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1544 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1547 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1548 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1549 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1550 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1551 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1552 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1553 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1554 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1555 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1556 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1557 details. closes: Bug#133030
1558 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1559 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1560 parts of Bug#161455.
1562 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1564 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1567 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1568 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1569 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1570 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1571 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1572 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1573 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1574 not. closes: Bug#139820
1575 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1576 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1577 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1578 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1579 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1580 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1581 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1582 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1583 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1584 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1586 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1588 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1589 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1590 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1591 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1592 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1593 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1594 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1595 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1596 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1597 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1598 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1599 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1600 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1601 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1602 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1603 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1604 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1605 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1606 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1607 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1609 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1610 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1611 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1612 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1613 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1614 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1615 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1617 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1618 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1619 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1620 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1621 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1622 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1623 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1624 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1625 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1627 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1629 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1632 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1633 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1634 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1635 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1636 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1637 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1638 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1639 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1640 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1641 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1642 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1643 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1644 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1645 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1646 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1647 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1648 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1649 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1650 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1651 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1652 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1653 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1655 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1657 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1660 medium, high, emergency.
1661 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1662 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1663 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1664 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1665 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1668 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1669 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1670 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1672 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1673 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1674 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1675 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1676 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1677 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1678 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1681 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1683 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1686 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1687 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1688 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1690 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1691 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1692 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1693 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1694 debian/rules to do this
1695 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1696 patches are incorporated upstream
1697 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1698 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1699 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1700 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1701 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1702 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1704 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1705 system closes: Bug#91249
1706 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1707 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1708 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1709 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1710 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1711 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1712 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1713 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1714 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1715 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1716 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1717 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1718 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1720 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1722 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1725 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1726 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1727 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1729 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1730 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1731 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1733 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1736 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1738 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1741 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1742 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1743 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1744 package for the time being
1745 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1746 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1747 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1748 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1749 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1750 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1751 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1752 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1753 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1754 Build-Depends arch syntax
1755 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1757 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1758 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1760 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1761 from policy maintenance duties.
1762 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1763 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1765 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1767 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1771 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1773 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1776 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1777 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1778 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1779 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1780 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1781 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1782 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1783 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1784 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1785 minor version number for this
1786 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1787 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1788 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1789 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1790 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1791 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1792 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1793 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1794 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1796 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1798 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1801 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1802 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1803 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1804 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1806 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1808 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1809 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1810 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1811 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1812 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1813 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1814 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1815 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1816 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1817 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1818 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1819 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1820 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1821 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1822 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1823 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1826 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1828 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1831 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1833 * Document the Enhances relationship
1834 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1835 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1836 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1837 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1838 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1839 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1841 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1843 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1844 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1845 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1846 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1848 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1849 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1850 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1851 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1852 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1854 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1856 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1859 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1860 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1862 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1863 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1864 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1865 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1866 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1867 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1868 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1869 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1870 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1872 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1874 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1876 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1879 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1880 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1881 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1882 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1883 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1884 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1885 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1886 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1887 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1888 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1889 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1890 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1891 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1892 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1893 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1894 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1895 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1896 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1897 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1898 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1899 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1901 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1902 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1904 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1906 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1909 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1910 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1911 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1912 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1913 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1914 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1915 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1916 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1917 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1918 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1919 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1920 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1921 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1922 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1923 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1924 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1925 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1926 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1927 list closes: Bug#53756
1928 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1929 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1930 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1931 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1932 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1933 policy closes: Bug#53760
1934 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1935 policy closes: Bug#53761
1936 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1937 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1938 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1939 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1940 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1941 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1942 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1943 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1944 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1945 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1946 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1948 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1949 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1950 to install with older fileutils.
1951 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1952 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1953 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1954 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1956 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1957 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1959 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1961 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1964 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1966 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1968 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1971 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1973 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1976 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1979 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1981 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1983 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1985 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1988 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1990 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1992 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1995 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1996 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1997 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1998 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1999 directoried (closes: #41547)
2000 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2001 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2002 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2003 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2004 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2005 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2006 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2007 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2008 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2009 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2010 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2012 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2013 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2014 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2015 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2016 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2017 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2018 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2020 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2021 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2022 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2023 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2025 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2027 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2029 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2030 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2032 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2034 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2037 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2039 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2041 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2044 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2046 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2047 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2048 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2049 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2050 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2051 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2052 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2053 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2054 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2055 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2056 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2057 this closes: Bug#38612
2058 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2059 before. closes: Bug#40864
2061 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2063 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2066 officially uploaded.
2067 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2069 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2070 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2071 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2073 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2074 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2075 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2076 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2077 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2078 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2080 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2081 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2082 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2084 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2086 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2087 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2088 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2089 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2090 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2092 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2094 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2097 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2098 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2099 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2100 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2101 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2102 there). closes: Bug#34233
2103 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2104 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2105 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2106 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2107 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2109 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2111 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2114 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2115 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2116 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2119 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2120 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2121 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2122 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2123 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2126 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2127 number. closes: BUG#25911
2129 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2130 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2131 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2132 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2133 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2134 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2136 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2137 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2138 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2141 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2142 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2143 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2145 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2146 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2147 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2148 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2150 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2151 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2152 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2154 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2156 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2157 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2158 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2159 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2160 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2161 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2162 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2163 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2166 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2168 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2169 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2172 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2174 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2178 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2180 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2183 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2184 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2185 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2186 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2187 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2188 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2189 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2191 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2192 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2194 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2196 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2198 * non-maintainer release
2199 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2200 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2202 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2203 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2204 * no content changes
2205 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2207 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2209 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2213 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2215 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2219 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2220 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2221 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2223 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2224 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2226 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2227 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2228 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2229 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2231 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2232 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2233 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2234 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2235 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2236 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2237 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2239 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2240 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2241 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2244 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2245 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2246 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2248 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2249 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2250 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2252 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2253 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2255 * New version numbering scheme:
2257 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2258 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2259 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2262 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2263 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2264 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2265 differ between the manuals.
2267 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2268 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2269 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2270 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2272 * Packaging changes:
2274 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2275 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2277 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2279 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2281 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2285 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2286 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2287 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2289 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2290 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2293 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2294 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2295 file extension as the referenced file
2297 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2298 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2300 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2301 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2302 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2303 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2306 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2307 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2308 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2310 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2311 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2312 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2313 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2316 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2317 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2320 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2321 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2322 reasonable default configuration
2324 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2325 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2326 by all news servers and clients
2328 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2329 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2330 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2331 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2332 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2334 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2335 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2338 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2340 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2341 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2343 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2346 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2347 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2349 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2350 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2352 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2354 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2356 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2359 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2360 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2361 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2363 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2365 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2366 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2367 * Don't use debstd anymore
2369 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2371 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2374 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2375 contrib/non-free policy
2376 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2377 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2378 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2379 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2380 - new section about `Daemons'
2381 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2382 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2383 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2384 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2385 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2386 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2387 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2388 * SGML source code included in package
2389 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2391 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2393 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2396 - completely reworked structure
2397 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2398 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2399 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2400 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2401 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2402 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2403 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2404 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2405 - mention "orphaned packages"
2406 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2407 distributions' policy
2408 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2409 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2410 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2411 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2412 - added section about arch spec strings
2413 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2414 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2415 - added section about "menus"
2416 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2417 the new documentation policy soon
2418 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2419 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2421 - added section about editors and pagers
2422 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2423 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2424 - added section about device files
2425 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2426 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2427 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2429 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2430 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2431 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2432 - Added new section about obsolete names
2433 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2434 * Fixed package's description
2436 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2438 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2442 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2444 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2447 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2448 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2449 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2451 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2453 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2456 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2457 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2459 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2460 and upload it "byhand" too.
2462 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2464 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2468 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2469 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2470 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2471 functionality must not have the same name.
2472 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2473 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2474 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2475 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2476 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2477 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2478 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2480 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2481 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2482 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2483 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2484 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2485 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2486 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2487 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2490 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2492 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2494 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2496 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2497 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2498 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2499 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2500 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2503 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2505 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2507 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2509 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2510 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2511 description of deb file format.
2512 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2513 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2515 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2517 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2518 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2520 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2522 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2524 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2525 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2526 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2527 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2528 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2529 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2530 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2531 packages in section on Procedure
2532 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2533 a package maintainer
2534 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2535 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2536 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2538 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2539 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2540 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2541 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2542 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2543 on various shlib files
2544 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2545 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2546 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2548 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2550 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2552 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2553 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2554 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2556 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2557 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2558 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2559 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2560 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2562 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2564 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2566 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2568 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2570 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2571 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2572 compatibility go in contrib.
2574 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2575 instructions in policy manual.
2576 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2579 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2581 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2583 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2584 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2585 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2586 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2588 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2589 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2592 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2594 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2596 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2597 * More detail about changelog format names.
2599 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2600 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2604 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2606 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2608 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2610 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2612 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2614 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2616 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2618 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2619 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2620 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2622 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2624 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2626 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2628 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2630 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2634 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100