1 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
4 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
8 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
9 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
11 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
13 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
14 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
18 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
19 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
21 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
23 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
24 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
28 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
29 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
30 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
31 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
33 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:23:50 -0700
35 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
38 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
40 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
42 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
45 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
46 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
47 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
48 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
49 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
50 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
51 Millan (Closes: #209008).
52 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
53 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
55 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
57 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
59 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
60 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
61 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
62 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
63 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
64 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
65 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
67 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
68 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
69 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
70 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
72 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
73 Küster (Closes: #403391).
74 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
75 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
76 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
77 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
78 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
79 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
83 Closes: #186700, #458910
84 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
85 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
88 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
89 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
90 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
91 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
92 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
93 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
94 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
95 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
97 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
98 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
100 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
101 * Add an md5sums control file.
102 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
103 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
104 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
105 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
106 currently part of policy.
107 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
108 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
109 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
112 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
114 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
117 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
118 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
119 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
120 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
121 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
122 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
123 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
124 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
125 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
127 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
128 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
129 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
130 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
131 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
133 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
135 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
136 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
137 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
139 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
140 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
141 list?" (Closes: #412634).
142 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
143 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
144 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
145 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
146 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
147 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
148 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
149 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
150 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
151 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
152 debconf specification.
153 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
154 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
156 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
158 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
161 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
162 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
163 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
164 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
166 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
168 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
169 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
170 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
171 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
172 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
174 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
175 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
176 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
177 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
178 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
179 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
180 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
181 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
182 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
183 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
184 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
185 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
186 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
187 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
188 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
189 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
191 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
193 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
194 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
195 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
196 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
197 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
198 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
199 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
200 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
202 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
204 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
207 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
208 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
209 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
210 Polo (Closes: #372497).
211 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
212 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
214 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
215 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
216 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
217 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
218 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
219 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
220 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
221 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
222 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
223 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
225 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
226 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
227 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
228 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
229 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
230 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
232 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
234 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
237 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
238 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
239 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
241 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
242 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
244 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
246 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
249 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
250 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
251 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
252 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
253 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
254 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
255 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
256 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
257 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
259 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
260 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
261 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
262 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
263 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
264 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
266 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
267 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
268 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
269 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
272 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
274 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
277 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
278 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
279 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
280 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
281 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
282 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
283 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
284 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
285 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
286 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
287 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
288 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
289 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
290 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
291 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
292 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
293 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
294 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
295 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
296 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
297 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
298 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
299 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
300 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
301 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
302 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
303 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
305 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
306 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
307 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
308 Hess (Closes: #362247).
309 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
310 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
311 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
312 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
313 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
314 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
315 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
316 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
317 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
318 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
319 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
320 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
322 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
323 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
325 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
326 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
327 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
328 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
329 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
330 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
331 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
332 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
333 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
334 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
335 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
337 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
339 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
343 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
344 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
345 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
346 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
347 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
348 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
349 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
350 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
351 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
352 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
353 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
354 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
356 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
357 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
358 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
359 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
360 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
361 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
362 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
363 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
364 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
365 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
366 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
367 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
368 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
369 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
370 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
371 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
372 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
373 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
374 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
377 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
379 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
382 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
383 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
384 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
386 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
387 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
388 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
389 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
391 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
393 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
396 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
397 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
398 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
399 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
400 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
401 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
402 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
403 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
404 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
405 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
407 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
408 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
409 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
411 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
412 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
413 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
414 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
415 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
416 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
417 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
419 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
420 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
421 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
422 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
424 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
425 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
426 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
427 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
428 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
429 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
430 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
431 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
433 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
434 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
435 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
436 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
437 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
438 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
439 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
440 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
441 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
442 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
443 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
444 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
445 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
446 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
447 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
448 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
449 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
451 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
453 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
456 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
457 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
458 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
459 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
460 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
461 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
462 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
463 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
464 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
466 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
467 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
468 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
469 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
470 this section. closes: Bug#248618
471 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
472 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
473 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
474 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
475 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
476 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
477 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
478 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
479 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
480 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
481 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
482 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
484 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
485 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
486 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
489 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
490 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
491 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
493 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
494 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
495 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
496 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
497 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
498 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
500 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
501 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
503 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
504 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
505 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
506 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
507 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
508 Closes: #185943, #237049
510 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
512 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
518 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
519 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
520 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
521 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
522 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
523 running. closes: Bug#187250
524 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
525 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
526 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
527 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
528 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
529 user closes: Bug#176506
531 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
533 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
537 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
538 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
539 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
540 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
541 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
542 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
543 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
544 deb-building toolchain.
545 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
546 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
547 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
548 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
549 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
550 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
551 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
552 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
553 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
554 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
555 sections about changelog files.
557 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
558 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
559 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
560 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
561 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
562 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
564 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
565 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
566 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
567 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
568 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
569 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
570 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
571 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
572 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
573 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
574 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
575 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
576 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
577 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
578 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
579 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
580 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
581 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
582 for the restructuring
584 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
586 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
591 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
592 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
593 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
594 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
595 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
596 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
598 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
599 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
600 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
601 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
602 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
603 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
604 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
606 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
607 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
608 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
609 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
611 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
613 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
617 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
618 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
619 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
620 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
621 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
623 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
624 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
625 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
626 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
628 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
629 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
630 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
631 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
632 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
633 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
634 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
635 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
636 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
638 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
639 script should start it, closes: #60979
640 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
641 "should", closes: #170019
642 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
643 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
644 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
645 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
646 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
647 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
648 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
649 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
652 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
654 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
658 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
659 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
660 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
661 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
662 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
663 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
664 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
665 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
667 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
668 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
669 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
670 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
671 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
672 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
673 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
674 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
675 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
677 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
678 file, closes: Bug#65764
680 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
682 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
685 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
686 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
687 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
688 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
689 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
690 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
691 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
692 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
693 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
694 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
695 details. closes: Bug#133030
696 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
697 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
700 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
702 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
705 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
706 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
707 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
708 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
709 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
710 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
711 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
712 not. closes: Bug#139820
713 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
714 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
715 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
716 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
717 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
718 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
719 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
720 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
721 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
722 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
724 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
726 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
727 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
728 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
729 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
730 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
731 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
732 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
733 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
734 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
735 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
736 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
737 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
738 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
739 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
740 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
741 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
742 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
743 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
744 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
745 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
747 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
748 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
749 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
750 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
751 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
752 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
753 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
755 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
756 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
757 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
758 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
759 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
760 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
761 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
762 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
763 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
765 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
767 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
770 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
771 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
772 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
773 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
774 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
775 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
776 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
777 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
778 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
779 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
780 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
781 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
782 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
783 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
784 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
785 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
786 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
787 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
788 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
789 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
790 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
791 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
793 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
795 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
798 medium, high, emergency.
799 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
800 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
801 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
802 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
803 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
806 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
807 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
808 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
810 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
811 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
812 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
813 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
814 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
815 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
816 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
819 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
821 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
824 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
825 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
826 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
828 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
829 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
830 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
831 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
832 debian/rules to do this
833 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
834 patches are incorporated upstream
835 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
836 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
837 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
838 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
839 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
840 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
842 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
843 system closes: Bug#91249
844 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
845 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
846 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
847 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
848 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
849 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
850 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
851 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
852 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
853 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
854 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
855 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
856 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
858 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
860 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
862 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
863 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
864 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
865 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
867 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
868 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
869 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
871 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
874 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
876 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
879 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
880 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
881 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
882 package for the time being
883 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
884 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
885 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
886 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
887 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
888 * Rename all .text files as .txt
889 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
890 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
891 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
892 Build-Depends arch syntax
893 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
895 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
896 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
898 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
899 from policy maintenance duties.
900 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
901 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
903 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
905 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
909 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
911 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
914 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
915 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
916 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
917 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
918 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
919 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
920 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
921 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
922 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
923 minor version number for this
924 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
925 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
926 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
927 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
928 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
929 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
930 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
931 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
932 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
934 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
936 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
938 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
939 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
940 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
941 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
942 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
944 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
946 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
947 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
948 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
949 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
950 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
951 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
952 xutils closes: Bug#82966
953 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
954 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
955 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
956 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
957 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
958 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
959 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
960 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
961 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
964 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
966 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
968 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
969 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
971 * Document the Enhances relationship
972 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
973 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
974 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
975 policy. closes: Bug#53496
976 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
977 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
979 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
981 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
982 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
983 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
984 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
986 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
987 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
988 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
989 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
990 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
992 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
994 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
997 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
998 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1000 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1001 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1002 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1003 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1004 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1005 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1006 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1007 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1008 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1010 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1012 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1014 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1017 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1018 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1019 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1020 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1021 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1022 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1023 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1024 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1025 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1026 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1027 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1028 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1029 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1030 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1031 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1032 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1033 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1034 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1035 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1036 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1037 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1039 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1040 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1042 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1044 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1047 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1048 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1049 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1050 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1051 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1052 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1053 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1054 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1055 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1056 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1057 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1058 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1059 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1060 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1061 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1062 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1063 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1064 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1065 list closes: Bug#53756
1066 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1067 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1068 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1069 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1070 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1071 policy closes: Bug#53760
1072 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1073 policy closes: Bug#53761
1074 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1075 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1076 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1077 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1078 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1079 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1080 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1081 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1082 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1083 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1084 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1086 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1087 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1088 to install with older fileutils.
1089 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1090 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1091 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1092 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1094 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1095 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1097 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1099 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1102 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1104 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1106 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1109 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1111 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1114 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1117 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1119 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1121 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1123 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1126 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1128 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1130 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1133 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1134 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1135 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1136 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1137 directoried (closes: #41547)
1138 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1139 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1140 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1141 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1142 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1143 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1144 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1145 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1146 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1147 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1148 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1150 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1151 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1152 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1153 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1154 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1155 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1156 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1158 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1159 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1160 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1161 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1163 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1165 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1167 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1168 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1170 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1172 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1175 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1177 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1179 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1182 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1184 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1185 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1186 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1187 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1188 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1189 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1190 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1191 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1192 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1193 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1194 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1195 this closes: Bug#38612
1196 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1197 before. closes: Bug#40864
1199 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1201 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1204 officially uploaded.
1205 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1207 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1208 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1209 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1211 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1212 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1213 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1214 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1215 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1216 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1218 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1219 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1220 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1222 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1224 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1225 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1226 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1227 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1228 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1230 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1232 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1235 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1236 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1237 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1238 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1239 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1240 there). closes: Bug#34233
1241 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1242 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1243 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1244 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1245 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1247 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1249 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1252 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1253 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1254 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1257 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1258 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1259 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1260 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1261 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1264 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1265 number. closes: BUG#25911
1267 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1268 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1269 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1270 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1271 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1272 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1274 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1275 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1276 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1279 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1280 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1281 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1283 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1284 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1285 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1286 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1288 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1289 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1290 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1292 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1294 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1295 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1296 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1297 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1298 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1299 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1300 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1301 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1304 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1306 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1307 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1310 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1312 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1316 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1318 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1321 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1322 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1323 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1324 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1325 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1326 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1327 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1329 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1330 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1332 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1334 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1336 * non-maintainer release
1337 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1338 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1340 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1341 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1342 * no content changes
1343 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1345 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1347 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1351 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1353 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1357 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1358 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1359 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1361 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1362 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1364 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1365 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1366 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1367 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1369 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1370 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1371 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1372 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1373 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1374 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1375 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1377 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1378 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1379 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1382 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1383 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1384 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1386 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1387 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1388 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1390 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1391 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1393 * New version numbering scheme:
1395 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1396 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1397 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1400 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1401 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1402 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1403 differ between the manuals.
1405 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1406 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1407 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1408 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1410 * Packaging changes:
1412 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1413 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1415 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1417 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1419 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1423 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1424 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1425 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1427 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1428 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1431 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1432 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1433 file extension as the referenced file
1435 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1436 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1438 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1439 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1440 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1441 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1444 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1445 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1446 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1448 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1449 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1450 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1451 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1454 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1455 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1458 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1459 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1460 reasonable default configuration
1462 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1463 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1464 by all news servers and clients
1466 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1467 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1468 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1469 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1470 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1472 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1473 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1476 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1478 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1479 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1481 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1484 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1485 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1487 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1488 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1490 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1492 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1494 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1497 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1498 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1499 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1501 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1503 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1504 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1505 * Don't use debstd anymore
1507 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1509 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1512 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1513 contrib/non-free policy
1514 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1515 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1516 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1517 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1518 - new section about `Daemons'
1519 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1520 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1521 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1522 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1523 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1524 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1525 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1526 * SGML source code included in package
1527 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1529 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1531 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1534 - completely reworked structure
1535 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1536 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1537 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1538 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1539 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1540 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1541 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1542 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1543 - mention "orphaned packages"
1544 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1545 distributions' policy
1546 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1547 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1548 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1549 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1550 - added section about arch spec strings
1551 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1552 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1553 - added section about "menus"
1554 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1555 the new documentation policy soon
1556 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1557 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1559 - added section about editors and pagers
1560 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1561 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1562 - added section about device files
1563 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1564 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1565 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1567 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1568 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1569 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1570 - Added new section about obsolete names
1571 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1572 * Fixed package's description
1574 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1576 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1580 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1582 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1585 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1586 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1587 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1589 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1591 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1594 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1595 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1597 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1598 and upload it "byhand" too.
1600 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1602 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1606 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1607 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1608 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1609 functionality must not have the same name.
1610 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1611 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1612 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1613 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1614 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1615 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1616 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1618 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1619 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1620 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1621 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1622 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1623 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1624 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1625 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1628 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1630 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1632 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1634 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1635 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1636 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1637 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1638 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1641 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1643 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1645 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1647 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1648 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1649 description of deb file format.
1650 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1651 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1653 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1655 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1656 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1658 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1660 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1662 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1663 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1664 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1665 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1666 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1667 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1668 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1669 packages in section on Procedure
1670 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1671 a package maintainer
1672 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1673 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1674 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1676 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1677 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1678 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1679 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1680 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1681 on various shlib files
1682 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1683 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1684 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1686 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1688 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1690 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1691 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1692 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1694 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1695 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1696 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1697 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1698 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1700 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1702 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1704 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1706 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1708 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1709 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1710 compatibility go in contrib.
1712 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1713 instructions in policy manual.
1714 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1717 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1719 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1721 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1722 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1723 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1724 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1726 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1727 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1730 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1732 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1734 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1735 * More detail about changelog format names.
1737 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1738 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1742 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1744 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1746 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1748 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1750 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1752 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1754 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1756 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1757 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1758 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1760 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1762 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1764 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1766 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1768 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1772 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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