1 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
7 Closes: #459868, #581011
8 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
9 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
11 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
13 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
14 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
16 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
18 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
19 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
23 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
24 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
25 machine. (Closes: #591857)
26 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
27 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
28 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
29 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
30 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
31 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
32 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
33 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
34 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
35 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
37 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
38 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
39 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
40 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
41 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
42 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
43 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
44 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
45 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
46 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
47 than the version in oldstable.
48 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
49 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
50 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
51 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
53 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:47:47 -0700
55 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
58 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
59 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
63 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
64 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
68 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
69 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
73 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
74 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
78 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
79 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
83 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
84 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
88 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
89 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
93 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
94 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
96 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
98 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
99 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
101 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
103 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
104 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
109 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
110 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
115 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
116 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
120 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
121 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
126 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
130 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
131 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
135 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
136 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
140 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
141 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
145 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
147 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
148 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
149 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
150 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
151 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
152 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
153 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
154 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
155 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
157 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
158 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
159 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
160 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
161 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
162 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
164 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
166 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
172 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
175 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
176 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
177 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
178 and distribution license' (three times).
179 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
180 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
185 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
187 Proposed by Santiago Vila
188 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
195 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
196 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
200 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
201 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
202 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
205 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
207 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
208 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
212 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
213 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
216 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
218 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
219 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
222 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
224 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
225 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
228 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
230 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
231 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
232 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
235 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
236 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
241 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
242 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
246 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
247 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
251 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
252 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
253 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
257 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
258 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
259 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
262 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
263 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
268 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
269 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
270 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
273 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
274 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
275 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
276 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
277 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
278 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
279 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
280 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
281 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
282 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
283 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
284 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
285 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
286 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
287 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
288 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
289 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
290 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
291 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
292 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
293 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
294 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
295 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
296 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
297 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
298 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
299 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
300 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
301 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
302 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
303 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
304 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
306 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
308 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
310 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
314 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
316 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
317 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
321 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
324 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
325 Wording: Steve Langasek.
326 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
327 Seconded: Julien Cristau
328 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
331 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
332 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
333 Seconded: Russ Allbery
334 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
337 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
338 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
339 Seconded: Russ Allbery
341 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
342 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
343 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
344 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
345 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
346 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
347 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
348 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
351 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
352 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
353 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
354 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
355 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
356 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
357 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
359 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
360 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
361 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
362 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
363 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
364 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
365 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
368 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
369 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
370 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
371 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
372 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
374 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
377 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
378 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
381 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
382 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
385 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
387 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
390 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
394 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
395 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
399 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
400 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
404 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
405 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
408 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
409 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
411 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
412 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
417 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
418 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
422 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
423 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
427 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
428 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
432 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
433 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
437 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
438 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
442 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
443 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
444 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
445 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
446 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
447 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
448 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
449 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
450 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
451 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
452 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
453 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
454 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
455 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
456 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
458 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
459 Source field descriptions.
460 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
461 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
462 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
463 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
464 description says otherwise.
466 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
468 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
472 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
475 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
476 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
478 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
479 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
483 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
484 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
488 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
489 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
493 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
494 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
495 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
496 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
500 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
501 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
502 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
503 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
504 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
506 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
507 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
511 * Add myself to Uploaders.
514 * Add myself to Uploaders.
515 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
517 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
518 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
519 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
521 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
523 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
526 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
530 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
531 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
533 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
535 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
536 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
540 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
541 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
543 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
545 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
546 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
550 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
555 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
556 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
558 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
560 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
561 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
562 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
563 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
565 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
566 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
567 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
570 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
571 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
572 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
575 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
576 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
579 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
581 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
582 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
583 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
584 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
585 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
586 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
587 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
588 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
589 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
590 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
591 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
592 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
593 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
594 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
595 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
596 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
597 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
598 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
599 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
600 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
601 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
602 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
603 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
604 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
605 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
606 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
607 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
608 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
609 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
610 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
612 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
613 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
614 links was completed long ago.
615 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
617 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
619 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
622 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
624 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
626 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
629 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
630 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
631 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
632 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
633 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
634 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
635 Millan (Closes: #209008).
636 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
637 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
639 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
641 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
643 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
644 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
645 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
646 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
647 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
648 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
649 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
651 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
652 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
653 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
654 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
656 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
657 Küster (Closes: #403391).
658 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
659 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
660 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
661 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
662 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
663 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
664 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
667 Closes: #186700, #458910
668 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
669 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
670 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
672 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
673 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
674 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
675 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
676 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
677 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
678 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
679 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
681 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
682 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
684 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
685 * Add an md5sums control file.
686 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
687 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
688 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
689 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
690 currently part of policy.
691 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
692 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
693 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
696 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
698 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
701 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
702 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
703 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
704 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
705 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
706 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
707 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
708 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
709 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
710 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
711 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
712 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
713 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
714 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
715 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
717 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
719 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
720 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
721 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
723 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
724 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
725 list?" (Closes: #412634).
726 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
727 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
728 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
729 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
730 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
731 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
732 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
733 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
734 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
735 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
736 debconf specification.
737 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
738 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
740 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
742 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
745 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
746 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
747 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
748 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
750 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
752 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
753 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
754 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
755 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
756 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
758 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
759 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
760 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
761 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
762 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
763 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
764 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
765 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
766 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
767 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
768 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
769 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
770 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
771 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
772 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
773 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
775 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
777 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
778 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
779 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
780 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
781 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
782 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
783 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
784 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
786 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
788 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
791 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
792 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
793 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
794 Polo (Closes: #372497).
795 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
796 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
798 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
799 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
800 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
801 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
802 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
803 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
804 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
805 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
806 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
807 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
809 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
810 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
811 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
812 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
813 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
814 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
816 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
818 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
821 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
822 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
823 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
825 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
826 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
828 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
830 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
833 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
834 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
835 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
836 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
837 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
838 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
839 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
840 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
841 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
843 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
844 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
845 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
846 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
847 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
848 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
849 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
850 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
851 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
852 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
853 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
856 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
858 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
861 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
863 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
864 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
865 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
866 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
867 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
868 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
869 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
870 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
871 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
872 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
873 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
874 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
875 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
876 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
877 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
878 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
879 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
880 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
881 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
882 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
883 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
884 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
885 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
886 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
887 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
889 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
890 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
891 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
892 Hess (Closes: #362247).
893 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
894 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
895 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
896 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
897 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
898 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
899 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
900 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
901 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
902 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
903 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
904 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
906 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
907 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
909 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
910 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
911 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
912 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
913 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
914 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
915 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
916 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
917 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
918 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
919 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
921 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
923 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
927 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
928 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
929 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
930 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
931 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
932 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
933 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
934 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
935 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
936 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
937 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
938 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
940 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
941 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
942 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
943 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
944 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
945 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
946 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
947 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
948 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
949 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
950 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
951 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
952 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
953 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
954 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
955 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
956 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
957 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
958 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
961 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
963 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
965 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
966 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
967 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
968 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
970 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
971 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
972 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
973 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
975 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
977 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
981 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
982 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
983 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
984 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
985 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
986 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
987 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
988 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
989 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
991 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
992 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
993 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
995 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
996 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
997 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
998 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
999 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1000 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1001 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1003 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1004 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1005 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1006 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1008 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1009 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1010 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1011 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1012 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1013 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1014 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1015 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1017 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1018 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1019 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1020 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1021 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1022 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1023 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1024 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1025 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1026 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1027 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1028 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1029 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1030 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1031 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1032 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1033 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1035 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1037 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1041 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1042 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1043 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1044 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1045 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1046 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1047 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1048 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1050 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1051 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1052 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1053 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1054 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1055 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1056 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1057 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1058 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1059 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1060 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1061 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1062 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1063 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1064 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1065 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1066 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1068 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1069 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1070 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1073 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1074 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1075 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1077 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1078 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1079 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1080 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1081 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1082 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1084 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1085 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1087 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1088 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1089 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1090 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1091 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1092 Closes: #185943, #237049
1094 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1096 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1102 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1103 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1104 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1105 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1106 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1107 running. closes: Bug#187250
1108 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1109 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1110 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1111 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1112 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1113 user closes: Bug#176506
1115 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1117 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1121 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1122 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1123 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1124 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1125 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1126 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1127 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1128 deb-building toolchain.
1129 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1130 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1131 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1132 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1133 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1134 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1135 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1136 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1137 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1138 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1139 sections about changelog files.
1141 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1142 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1143 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1144 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1145 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1146 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1148 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1149 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1150 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1151 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1152 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1153 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1154 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1155 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1156 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1157 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1158 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1159 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1160 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1161 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1162 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1163 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1164 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1165 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1166 for the restructuring
1168 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1170 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1175 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1176 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1177 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1178 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1179 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1180 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1182 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1183 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1184 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1185 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1186 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1187 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1188 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1190 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1191 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1192 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1193 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1195 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1197 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1201 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1202 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1203 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1204 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1205 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1207 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1208 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1209 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1210 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1212 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1213 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1214 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1215 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1216 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1217 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1218 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1219 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1220 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1221 offtopic stuff, too.
1222 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1223 script should start it, closes: #60979
1224 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1225 "should", closes: #170019
1226 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1227 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1228 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1229 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1230 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1231 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1232 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1233 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1236 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1238 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1242 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1243 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1244 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1245 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1246 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1247 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1248 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1249 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1251 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1252 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1253 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1254 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1255 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1256 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1257 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1258 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1259 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1261 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1262 file, closes: Bug#65764
1264 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1266 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1269 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1270 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1271 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1272 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1273 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1274 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1275 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1276 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1277 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1278 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1279 details. closes: Bug#133030
1280 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1281 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1282 parts of Bug#161455.
1284 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1286 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1289 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1290 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1291 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1292 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1293 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1294 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1295 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1296 not. closes: Bug#139820
1297 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1298 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1299 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1300 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1301 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1302 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1303 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1304 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1305 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1306 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1308 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1310 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1311 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1312 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1313 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1314 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1315 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1316 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1317 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1318 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1319 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1320 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1321 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1322 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1323 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1324 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1325 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1326 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1327 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1328 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1329 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1331 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1332 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1333 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1334 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1335 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1336 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1337 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1339 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1340 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1341 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1342 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1343 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1344 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1345 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1346 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1347 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1349 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1351 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1354 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1355 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1356 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1357 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1358 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1359 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1360 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1361 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1362 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1363 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1364 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1365 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1366 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1367 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1368 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1369 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1370 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1371 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1372 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1373 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1374 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1375 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1377 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1379 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1382 medium, high, emergency.
1383 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1384 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1385 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1386 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1387 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1390 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1391 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1392 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1394 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1395 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1396 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1397 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1398 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1399 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1400 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1403 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1405 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1408 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1409 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1410 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1412 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1413 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1414 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1415 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1416 debian/rules to do this
1417 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1418 patches are incorporated upstream
1419 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1420 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1421 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1422 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1423 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1424 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1426 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1427 system closes: Bug#91249
1428 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1429 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1430 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1431 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1432 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1433 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1434 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1435 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1436 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1437 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1438 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1439 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1440 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1442 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1444 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1447 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1448 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1449 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1451 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1452 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1453 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1455 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1458 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1460 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1463 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1464 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1465 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1466 package for the time being
1467 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1468 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1469 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1470 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1471 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1472 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1473 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1474 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1475 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1476 Build-Depends arch syntax
1477 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1479 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1480 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1482 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1483 from policy maintenance duties.
1484 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1485 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1487 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1489 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1493 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1495 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1498 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1499 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1500 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1501 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1502 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1503 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1504 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1505 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1506 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1507 minor version number for this
1508 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1509 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1510 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1511 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1512 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1513 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1514 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1515 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1516 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1518 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1520 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1523 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1524 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1525 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1526 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1528 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1530 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1531 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1532 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1533 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1534 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1535 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1536 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1537 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1538 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1539 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1540 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1541 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1542 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1543 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1544 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1545 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1548 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1550 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1553 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1555 * Document the Enhances relationship
1556 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1557 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1558 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1559 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1560 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1561 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1563 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1565 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1566 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1567 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1568 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1570 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1571 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1572 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1573 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1574 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1576 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1578 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1581 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1582 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1584 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1585 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1586 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1587 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1588 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1589 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1590 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1591 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1592 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1594 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1596 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1598 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1601 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1602 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1603 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1604 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1605 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1606 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1607 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1608 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1609 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1610 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1611 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1612 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1613 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1614 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1615 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1616 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1617 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1618 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1619 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1620 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1621 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1623 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1624 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1626 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1628 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1631 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1632 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1633 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1634 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1635 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1636 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1637 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1638 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1639 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1640 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1641 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1642 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1643 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1644 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1645 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1646 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1647 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1648 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1649 list closes: Bug#53756
1650 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1651 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1652 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1653 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1654 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1655 policy closes: Bug#53760
1656 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1657 policy closes: Bug#53761
1658 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1659 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1660 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1661 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1662 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1663 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1664 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1665 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1666 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1667 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1668 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1670 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1671 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1672 to install with older fileutils.
1673 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1674 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1675 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1676 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1678 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1679 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1681 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1683 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1686 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1688 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1690 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1693 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1695 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1698 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1701 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1703 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1705 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1707 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1710 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1712 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1714 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1717 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1718 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1719 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1720 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1721 directoried (closes: #41547)
1722 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1723 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1724 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1725 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1726 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1727 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1728 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1729 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1730 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1731 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1732 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1734 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1735 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1736 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1737 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1738 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1739 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1740 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1742 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1743 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1744 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1745 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1747 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1749 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1751 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1752 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1754 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1756 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1759 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1761 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1763 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1766 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1768 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1769 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1770 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1771 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1772 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1773 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1774 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1775 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1776 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1777 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1778 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1779 this closes: Bug#38612
1780 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1781 before. closes: Bug#40864
1783 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1785 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1788 officially uploaded.
1789 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1791 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1792 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1793 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1795 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1796 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1797 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1798 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1799 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1800 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1802 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1803 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1804 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1806 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1808 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1809 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1810 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1811 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1812 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1814 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1816 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1819 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1820 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1821 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1822 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1823 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1824 there). closes: Bug#34233
1825 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1826 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1827 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1828 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1829 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1831 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1833 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1836 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1837 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1838 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1841 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1842 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1843 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1844 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1845 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1848 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1849 number. closes: BUG#25911
1851 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1852 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1853 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1854 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1855 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1856 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1858 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1859 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1860 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1863 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1864 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1865 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1867 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1868 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1869 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1870 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1872 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1873 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1874 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1876 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1878 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1879 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1880 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1881 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1882 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1883 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1884 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1885 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1888 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1890 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1891 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1894 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1896 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1900 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1902 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1905 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1906 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1907 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1908 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1909 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1910 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1911 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1913 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1914 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1916 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1918 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1920 * non-maintainer release
1921 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1922 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1924 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1925 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1926 * no content changes
1927 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1929 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1931 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1935 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1937 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1941 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1942 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1943 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1945 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1946 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1948 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1949 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1950 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1951 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1953 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1954 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1955 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1956 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1957 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1958 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1959 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1961 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1962 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1963 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1966 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1967 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1968 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1970 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1971 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1972 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1974 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1975 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1977 * New version numbering scheme:
1979 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1980 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1981 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1984 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1985 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1986 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1987 differ between the manuals.
1989 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1990 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1991 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1992 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1994 * Packaging changes:
1996 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1997 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1999 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2001 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2003 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2007 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2008 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2009 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2011 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2012 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2015 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2016 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2017 file extension as the referenced file
2019 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2020 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2022 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2023 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2024 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2025 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2028 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2029 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2030 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2032 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2033 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2034 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2035 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2038 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2039 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2042 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2043 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2044 reasonable default configuration
2046 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2047 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2048 by all news servers and clients
2050 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2051 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2052 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2053 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2054 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2056 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2057 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2060 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2062 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2063 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2065 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2068 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2069 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2071 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2072 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2074 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2076 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2078 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2081 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2082 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2083 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2085 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2087 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2088 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2089 * Don't use debstd anymore
2091 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2093 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2096 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2097 contrib/non-free policy
2098 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2099 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2100 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2101 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2102 - new section about `Daemons'
2103 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2104 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2105 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2106 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2107 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2108 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2109 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2110 * SGML source code included in package
2111 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2113 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2115 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2118 - completely reworked structure
2119 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2120 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2121 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2122 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2123 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2124 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2125 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2126 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2127 - mention "orphaned packages"
2128 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2129 distributions' policy
2130 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2131 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2132 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2133 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2134 - added section about arch spec strings
2135 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2136 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2137 - added section about "menus"
2138 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2139 the new documentation policy soon
2140 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2141 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2143 - added section about editors and pagers
2144 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2145 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2146 - added section about device files
2147 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2148 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2149 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2151 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2152 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2153 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2154 - Added new section about obsolete names
2155 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2156 * Fixed package's description
2158 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2160 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2164 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2166 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2169 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2170 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2171 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2173 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2175 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2178 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2179 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2181 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2182 and upload it "byhand" too.
2184 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2186 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2190 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2191 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2192 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2193 functionality must not have the same name.
2194 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2195 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2196 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2197 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2198 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2199 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2200 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2202 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2203 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2204 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2205 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2206 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2207 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2208 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2209 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2212 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2214 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2216 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2218 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2219 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2220 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2221 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2222 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2225 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2227 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2229 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2231 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2232 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2233 description of deb file format.
2234 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2235 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2237 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2239 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2240 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2242 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2244 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2246 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2247 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2248 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2249 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2250 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2251 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2252 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2253 packages in section on Procedure
2254 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2255 a package maintainer
2256 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2257 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2258 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2260 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2261 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2262 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2263 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2264 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2265 on various shlib files
2266 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2267 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2268 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2270 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2272 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2274 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2275 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2276 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2278 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2279 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2280 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2281 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2282 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2284 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2286 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2288 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2290 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2292 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2293 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2294 compatibility go in contrib.
2296 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2297 instructions in policy manual.
2298 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2301 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2303 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2305 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2306 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2307 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2308 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2310 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2311 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2314 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2316 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2318 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2319 * More detail about changelog format names.
2321 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2322 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2326 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2328 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2330 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2332 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2334 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2336 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2338 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2340 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2341 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2342 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2344 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2346 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2348 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2350 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2352 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2356 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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