1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
11 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
12 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
13 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
14 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
15 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
16 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
19 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification strings (11.1)
20 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
21 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
22 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
23 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
28 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
29 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
31 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
32 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
34 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 30 May 2011 15:42:21 +0200
36 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
39 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
42 Closes: #459868, #581011
43 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
44 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
46 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
48 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
49 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
51 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
54 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
56 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
58 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
59 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
63 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
64 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
67 Closes: #501930, #593909
68 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
69 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
73 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
74 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
75 machine. (Closes: #591857)
76 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
77 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
78 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
79 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
80 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
81 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
82 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
83 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
84 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
85 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
87 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
88 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
89 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
90 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
91 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
92 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
93 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
94 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
95 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
96 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
97 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
98 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
99 than the version in oldstable.
100 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
101 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
102 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
103 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
104 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
105 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
106 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
107 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
108 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
109 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
110 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
111 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
112 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
113 package. (Closes: #609160)
115 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
117 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
120 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
121 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
126 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
130 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
131 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
135 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
136 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
140 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
141 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
145 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
146 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
150 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
151 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
155 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
156 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
158 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
160 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
161 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
163 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
165 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
166 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
171 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
172 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
177 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
178 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
182 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
183 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
187 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
188 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
192 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
197 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
198 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
202 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
203 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
207 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
209 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
210 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
211 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
212 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
213 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
214 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
215 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
216 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
217 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
219 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
220 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
221 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
222 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
223 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
224 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
226 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
228 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
234 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
237 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
238 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
239 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
240 and distribution license' (three times).
241 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
242 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
247 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
249 Proposed by Santiago Vila
250 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
257 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
258 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
262 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
263 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
264 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
267 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
269 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
270 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
274 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
275 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
278 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
280 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
281 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
284 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
286 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
287 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
290 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
292 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
293 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
294 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
297 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
298 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
303 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
304 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
308 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
309 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
313 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
314 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
315 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
319 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
320 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
321 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
324 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
325 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
330 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
331 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
335 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
336 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
337 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
338 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
339 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
340 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
341 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
342 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
343 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
344 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
345 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
346 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
347 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
348 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
349 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
350 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
351 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
352 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
353 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
354 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
355 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
356 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
357 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
358 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
359 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
360 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
361 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
362 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
363 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
364 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
365 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
366 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
368 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
370 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
372 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
376 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
378 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
379 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
383 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
386 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
387 Wording: Steve Langasek.
388 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
389 Seconded: Julien Cristau
390 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
393 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
394 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
395 Seconded: Russ Allbery
396 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
399 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
400 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
401 Seconded: Russ Allbery
403 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
404 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
405 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
406 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
407 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
408 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
409 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
410 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
413 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
414 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
415 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
416 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
417 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
418 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
419 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
421 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
422 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
423 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
424 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
425 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
426 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
427 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
430 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
431 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
432 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
433 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
434 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
436 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
439 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
440 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
443 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
444 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
447 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
449 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
452 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
456 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
457 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
461 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
462 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
466 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
467 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
470 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
471 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
473 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
474 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
479 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
480 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
484 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
485 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
489 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
490 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
494 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
495 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
499 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
500 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
501 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
502 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
504 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
505 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
506 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
507 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
508 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
509 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
510 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
511 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
512 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
513 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
514 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
515 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
516 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
517 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
518 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
520 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
521 Source field descriptions.
522 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
523 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
524 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
525 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
526 description says otherwise.
528 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
530 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
534 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
537 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
538 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
540 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
541 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
545 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
546 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
550 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
551 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
555 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
556 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
557 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
558 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
562 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
563 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
564 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
565 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
566 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
568 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
569 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
573 * Add myself to Uploaders.
576 * Add myself to Uploaders.
577 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
579 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
580 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
581 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
583 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
585 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
588 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
593 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
595 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
597 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
598 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
602 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
603 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
605 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
607 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
608 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
612 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
613 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
617 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
618 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
620 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
622 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
623 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
625 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
627 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
628 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
629 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
632 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
633 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
637 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
638 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
641 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
643 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
644 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
645 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
646 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
647 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
648 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
649 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
650 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
651 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
652 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
653 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
654 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
655 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
656 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
657 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
658 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
659 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
660 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
661 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
662 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
663 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
664 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
665 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
666 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
667 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
668 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
669 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
670 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
671 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
672 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
674 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
675 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
676 links was completed long ago.
677 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
679 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
681 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
684 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
686 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
688 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
691 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
692 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
693 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
694 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
695 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
696 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
697 Millan (Closes: #209008).
698 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
699 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
701 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
703 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
705 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
706 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
707 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
708 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
709 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
710 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
711 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
713 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
714 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
715 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
716 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
718 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
719 Küster (Closes: #403391).
720 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
721 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
722 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
723 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
724 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
725 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
726 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
727 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
729 Closes: #186700, #458910
730 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
731 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
734 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
735 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
736 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
737 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
738 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
739 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
740 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
741 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
743 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
744 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
746 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
747 * Add an md5sums control file.
748 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
749 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
750 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
751 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
752 currently part of policy.
753 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
754 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
755 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
758 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
760 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
763 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
764 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
765 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
766 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
767 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
768 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
769 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
770 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
771 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
772 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
773 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
774 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
775 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
776 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
777 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
779 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
781 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
782 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
783 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
785 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
786 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
787 list?" (Closes: #412634).
788 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
789 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
790 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
791 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
792 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
793 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
794 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
795 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
796 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
797 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
798 debconf specification.
799 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
800 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
802 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
804 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
807 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
808 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
809 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
810 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
812 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
814 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
815 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
816 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
817 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
818 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
820 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
821 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
822 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
823 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
824 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
825 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
826 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
827 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
828 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
829 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
830 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
831 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
832 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
833 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
834 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
835 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
837 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
839 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
840 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
841 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
842 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
843 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
844 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
845 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
846 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
848 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
850 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
853 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
854 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
855 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
856 Polo (Closes: #372497).
857 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
858 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
860 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
861 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
862 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
863 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
864 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
865 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
866 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
867 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
868 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
869 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
871 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
872 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
873 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
874 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
875 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
876 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
878 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
880 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
883 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
884 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
885 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
887 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
888 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
890 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
892 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
895 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
896 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
897 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
898 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
899 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
900 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
901 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
902 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
903 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
905 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
906 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
907 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
908 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
909 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
910 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
911 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
912 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
913 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
914 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
915 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
918 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
920 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
923 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
924 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
925 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
926 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
927 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
928 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
929 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
930 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
931 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
932 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
933 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
934 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
935 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
936 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
937 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
938 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
939 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
940 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
941 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
942 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
943 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
944 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
945 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
946 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
947 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
948 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
949 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
951 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
952 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
953 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
954 Hess (Closes: #362247).
955 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
956 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
957 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
958 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
959 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
960 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
961 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
962 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
963 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
964 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
965 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
966 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
968 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
969 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
971 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
972 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
973 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
974 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
975 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
976 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
977 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
978 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
979 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
980 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
981 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
983 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
985 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
989 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
990 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
991 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
992 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
993 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
994 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
995 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
996 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
997 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
998 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
999 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1002 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1003 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1004 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1005 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1006 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1007 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1008 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1009 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1010 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1011 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1012 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1013 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1014 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1015 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1016 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1017 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1018 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1019 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1020 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1023 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1025 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1028 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1029 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1030 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1032 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1033 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1034 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1035 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1037 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1039 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1043 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1044 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1045 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1046 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1047 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1048 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1049 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1050 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1051 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1053 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1054 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1055 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1057 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1058 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1059 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1060 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1061 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1062 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1063 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1065 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1066 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1067 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1068 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1070 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1071 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1072 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1073 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1074 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1075 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1076 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1077 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1079 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1080 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1081 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1082 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1083 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1084 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1085 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1086 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1087 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1088 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1089 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1090 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1091 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1092 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1093 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1094 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1095 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1097 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1099 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1103 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1104 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1105 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1106 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1107 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1108 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1109 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1110 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1112 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1113 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1114 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1115 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1116 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1117 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1118 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1119 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1120 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1121 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1122 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1123 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1124 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1125 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1126 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1127 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1128 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1131 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1132 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1135 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1136 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1137 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1139 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1140 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1141 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1142 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1143 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1144 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1146 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1147 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1149 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1150 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1151 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1152 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1153 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1154 Closes: #185943, #237049
1156 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1158 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1164 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1165 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1166 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1167 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1168 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1169 running. closes: Bug#187250
1170 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1171 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1172 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1173 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1174 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1175 user closes: Bug#176506
1177 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1179 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1183 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1184 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1185 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1186 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1187 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1188 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1189 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1190 deb-building toolchain.
1191 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1192 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1193 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1194 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1195 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1196 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1197 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1198 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1199 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1200 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1201 sections about changelog files.
1203 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1204 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1205 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1206 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1207 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1208 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1210 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1211 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1212 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1213 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1214 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1215 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1216 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1217 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1218 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1219 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1220 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1221 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1222 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1223 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1224 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1225 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1226 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1227 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1228 for the restructuring
1230 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1232 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1237 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1238 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1239 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1240 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1241 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1242 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1244 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1245 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1246 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1247 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1248 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1249 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1250 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1252 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1253 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1254 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1255 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1257 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1259 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1263 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1264 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1265 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1266 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1267 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1269 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1270 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1271 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1272 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1274 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1275 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1276 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1277 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1278 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1279 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1280 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1281 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1282 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1283 offtopic stuff, too.
1284 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1285 script should start it, closes: #60979
1286 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1287 "should", closes: #170019
1288 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1289 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1290 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1291 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1292 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1293 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1294 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1295 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1298 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1300 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1304 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1305 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1306 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1307 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1308 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1309 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1310 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1311 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1313 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1314 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1315 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1316 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1317 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1318 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1319 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1320 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1321 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1323 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1324 file, closes: Bug#65764
1326 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1328 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1331 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1332 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1333 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1334 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1335 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1336 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1337 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1338 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1339 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1340 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1341 details. closes: Bug#133030
1342 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1343 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1344 parts of Bug#161455.
1346 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1348 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1351 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1352 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1353 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1354 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1355 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1356 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1357 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1358 not. closes: Bug#139820
1359 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1360 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1361 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1362 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1363 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1364 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1365 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1366 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1367 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1368 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1370 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1372 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1373 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1374 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1375 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1376 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1377 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1378 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1379 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1380 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1381 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1382 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1383 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1384 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1385 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1386 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1387 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1388 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1389 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1390 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1391 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1393 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1394 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1395 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1396 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1397 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1398 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1399 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1401 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1402 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1403 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1404 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1405 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1406 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1407 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1408 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1409 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1411 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1413 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1416 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1417 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1418 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1419 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1420 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1421 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1422 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1423 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1424 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1425 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1426 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1427 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1428 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1429 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1430 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1431 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1432 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1433 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1434 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1435 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1436 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1437 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1439 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1441 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1444 medium, high, emergency.
1445 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1446 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1447 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1448 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1449 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1452 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1453 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1454 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1456 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1457 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1458 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1459 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1460 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1461 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1462 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1465 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1467 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1470 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1471 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1472 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1474 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1475 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1476 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1477 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1478 debian/rules to do this
1479 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1480 patches are incorporated upstream
1481 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1482 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1483 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1484 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1485 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1486 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1488 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1489 system closes: Bug#91249
1490 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1491 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1492 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1493 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1494 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1495 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1496 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1497 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1498 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1499 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1500 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1501 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1502 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1504 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1506 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1509 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1510 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1511 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1513 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1514 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1515 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1517 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1520 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1522 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1525 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1526 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1527 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1528 package for the time being
1529 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1530 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1531 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1532 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1533 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1534 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1535 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1536 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1537 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1538 Build-Depends arch syntax
1539 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1541 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1542 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1544 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1545 from policy maintenance duties.
1546 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1547 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1549 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1551 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1555 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1557 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1560 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1561 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1562 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1563 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1564 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1565 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1566 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1567 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1568 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1569 minor version number for this
1570 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1571 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1572 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1573 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1574 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1575 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1576 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1577 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1578 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1580 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1582 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1585 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1586 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1587 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1588 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1590 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1592 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1593 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1594 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1595 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1596 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1597 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1598 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1599 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1600 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1601 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1602 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1603 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1604 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1605 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1606 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1607 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1610 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1612 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1615 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1617 * Document the Enhances relationship
1618 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1619 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1620 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1621 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1622 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1623 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1625 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1627 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1628 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1629 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1630 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1632 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1633 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1634 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1635 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1636 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1638 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1640 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1643 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1644 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1646 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1647 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1648 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1649 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1650 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1651 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1652 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1653 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1654 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1656 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1658 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1660 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1663 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1664 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1665 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1666 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1667 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1668 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1669 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1670 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1671 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1672 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1673 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1674 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1675 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1676 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1677 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1678 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1679 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1680 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1681 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1682 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1683 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1685 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1686 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1688 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1690 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1693 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1694 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1695 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1696 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1697 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1698 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1699 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1700 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1701 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1702 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1703 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1704 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1705 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1706 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1707 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1708 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1709 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1710 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1711 list closes: Bug#53756
1712 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1713 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1714 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1715 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1716 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1717 policy closes: Bug#53760
1718 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1719 policy closes: Bug#53761
1720 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1721 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1722 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1723 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1724 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1725 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1726 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1727 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1728 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1729 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1730 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1732 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1733 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1734 to install with older fileutils.
1735 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1736 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1737 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1738 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1740 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1741 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1743 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1745 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1748 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1750 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1752 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1755 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1757 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1760 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1763 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1765 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1767 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1769 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1772 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1774 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1776 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1779 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1780 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1781 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1782 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1783 directoried (closes: #41547)
1784 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1785 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1786 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1787 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1788 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1789 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1790 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1791 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1792 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1793 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1794 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1796 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1797 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1798 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1799 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1800 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1801 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1802 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1804 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1805 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1806 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1807 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1809 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1811 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1813 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1814 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1816 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1818 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1821 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1823 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1825 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1828 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1830 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1831 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1832 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1833 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1834 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1835 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1836 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1837 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1838 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1839 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1840 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1841 this closes: Bug#38612
1842 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1843 before. closes: Bug#40864
1845 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1847 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1850 officially uploaded.
1851 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1853 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1854 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1855 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1857 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1858 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1859 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1860 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1861 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1862 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1864 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1865 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1866 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1868 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1870 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1871 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1872 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1873 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1874 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1876 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1878 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1881 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1882 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1883 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1884 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1885 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1886 there). closes: Bug#34233
1887 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1888 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1889 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1890 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1891 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1893 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1895 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1898 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1899 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1900 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1903 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1904 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1905 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1906 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1907 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1910 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1911 number. closes: BUG#25911
1913 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1914 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1915 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1916 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1917 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1918 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1920 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1921 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1922 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1925 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1926 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1927 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1929 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1930 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1931 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1932 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1934 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1935 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1936 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1938 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1940 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1941 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1942 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1943 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1944 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1945 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1946 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1947 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1950 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1952 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1953 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1956 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1958 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1962 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1964 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1967 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1968 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1969 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1970 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1971 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1972 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1973 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1975 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1976 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1978 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1980 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1982 * non-maintainer release
1983 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1984 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1986 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1987 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1988 * no content changes
1989 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1991 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1993 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1997 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1999 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2003 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2004 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2005 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2007 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2008 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2010 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2011 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2012 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2013 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2015 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2016 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2017 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2018 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2019 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2020 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2021 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2023 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2024 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2025 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2028 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2029 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2030 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2032 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2033 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2034 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2036 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2037 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2039 * New version numbering scheme:
2041 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2042 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2043 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2046 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2047 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2048 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2049 differ between the manuals.
2051 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2052 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2053 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2054 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2056 * Packaging changes:
2058 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2059 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2061 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2063 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2065 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2069 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2070 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2071 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2073 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2074 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2077 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2078 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2079 file extension as the referenced file
2081 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2082 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2084 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2085 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2086 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2087 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2090 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2091 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2092 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2094 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2095 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2096 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2097 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2100 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2101 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2104 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2105 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2106 reasonable default configuration
2108 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2109 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2110 by all news servers and clients
2112 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2113 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2114 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2115 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2116 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2118 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2119 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2122 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2124 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2125 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2127 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2130 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2131 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2133 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2134 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2136 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2138 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2140 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2143 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2144 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2145 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2147 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2149 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2150 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2151 * Don't use debstd anymore
2153 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2155 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2158 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2159 contrib/non-free policy
2160 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2161 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2162 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2163 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2164 - new section about `Daemons'
2165 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2166 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2167 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2168 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2169 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2170 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2171 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2172 * SGML source code included in package
2173 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2175 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2177 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2180 - completely reworked structure
2181 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2182 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2183 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2184 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2185 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2186 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2187 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2188 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2189 - mention "orphaned packages"
2190 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2191 distributions' policy
2192 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2193 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2194 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2195 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2196 - added section about arch spec strings
2197 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2198 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2199 - added section about "menus"
2200 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2201 the new documentation policy soon
2202 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2203 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2205 - added section about editors and pagers
2206 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2207 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2208 - added section about device files
2209 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2210 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2211 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2213 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2214 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2215 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2216 - Added new section about obsolete names
2217 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2218 * Fixed package's description
2220 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2222 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2226 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2228 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2231 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2232 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2233 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2235 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2237 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2240 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2241 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2243 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2244 and upload it "byhand" too.
2246 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2248 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2252 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2253 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2254 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2255 functionality must not have the same name.
2256 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2257 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2258 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2259 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2260 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2261 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2262 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2264 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2265 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2266 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2267 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2268 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2269 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2270 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2271 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2274 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2276 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2278 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2280 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2281 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2282 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2283 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2284 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2287 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2289 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2291 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2293 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2294 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2295 description of deb file format.
2296 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2297 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2299 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2301 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2302 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2304 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2306 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2308 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2309 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2310 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2311 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2312 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2313 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2314 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2315 packages in section on Procedure
2316 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2317 a package maintainer
2318 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2319 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2320 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2322 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2323 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2324 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2325 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2326 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2327 on various shlib files
2328 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2329 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2330 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2332 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2334 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2336 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2337 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2338 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2340 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2341 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2342 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2343 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2344 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2346 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2348 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2350 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2352 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2354 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2355 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2356 compatibility go in contrib.
2358 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2359 instructions in policy manual.
2360 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2363 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2365 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2367 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2368 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2369 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2370 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2372 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2373 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2376 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2378 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2380 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2381 * More detail about changelog format names.
2383 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2384 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2388 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2390 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2392 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2394 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2396 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2398 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2400 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2402 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2403 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2404 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2406 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2408 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2410 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2412 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2414 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2418 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100