1 debian-policy (3.8.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
7 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
10 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
11 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
12 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
13 and distribution license' (three times).
14 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
15 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
20 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
22 Proposed by Santiago Vila
23 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
30 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
31 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
32 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
35 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
37 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
38 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
42 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
43 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
46 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
48 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
49 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
52 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
54 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
55 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
58 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
60 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
61 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
62 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
65 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
66 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
71 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
72 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
76 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
77 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
81 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
82 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
83 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
85 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
86 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
91 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
92 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
96 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
97 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
98 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
99 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
100 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
101 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
102 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
103 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
104 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
105 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
106 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
107 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
108 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
109 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
110 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
111 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
112 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
113 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
114 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
115 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
116 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
117 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
118 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
119 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
120 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
121 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
122 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
123 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
124 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
125 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
126 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
127 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
130 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200
132 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
136 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
138 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
139 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
143 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
146 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
147 Wording: Steve Langasek.
148 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
149 Seconded: Julien Cristau
150 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
153 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
154 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
155 Seconded: Russ Allbery
156 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
159 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
160 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
161 Seconded: Russ Allbery
163 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
164 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
165 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
166 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
167 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
168 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
169 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
170 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
173 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
174 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
175 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
176 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
177 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
178 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
179 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
181 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
182 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
183 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
184 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
185 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
186 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
187 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
190 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
191 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
192 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
193 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
194 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
196 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
199 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
200 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
203 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
204 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
207 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
209 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
212 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
216 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
217 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
221 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
222 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
226 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
227 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
230 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
231 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
233 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
234 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
239 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
240 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
244 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
245 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
249 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
250 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
254 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
255 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
259 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
260 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
264 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
265 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
266 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
267 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
268 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
269 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
270 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
271 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
272 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
273 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
274 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
275 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
276 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
277 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
278 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
280 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
281 Source field descriptions.
282 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
283 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
284 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
285 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
286 description says otherwise.
288 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
290 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
294 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
297 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
298 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
300 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
301 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
305 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
306 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
310 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
311 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
315 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
316 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
317 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
318 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
322 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
323 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
324 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
325 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
326 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
328 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
329 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
333 * Add myself to Uploaders.
336 * Add myself to Uploaders.
337 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
339 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
340 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
341 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
343 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
345 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
348 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
352 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
353 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
355 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
357 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
358 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
362 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
363 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
365 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
367 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
368 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
372 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
373 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
377 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
378 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
380 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
382 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
383 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
385 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
387 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
388 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
389 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
392 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
393 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
397 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
398 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
401 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
403 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
404 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
405 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
406 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
407 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
408 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
409 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
410 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
411 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
412 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
413 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
414 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
415 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
416 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
417 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
418 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
419 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
420 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
421 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
422 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
423 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
424 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
425 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
426 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
427 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
428 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
429 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
430 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
431 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
432 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
434 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
435 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
436 links was completed long ago.
437 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
439 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
441 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
444 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
446 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
448 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
451 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
452 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
453 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
454 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
455 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
456 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
457 Millan (Closes: #209008).
458 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
459 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
461 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
463 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
465 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
466 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
467 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
468 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
469 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
470 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
471 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
473 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
474 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
475 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
476 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
478 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
479 Küster (Closes: #403391).
480 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
481 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
482 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
483 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
484 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
485 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
489 Closes: #186700, #458910
490 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
491 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
494 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
495 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
496 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
497 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
498 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
499 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
500 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
501 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
503 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
504 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
506 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
507 * Add an md5sums control file.
508 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
509 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
510 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
511 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
512 currently part of policy.
513 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
514 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
515 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
518 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
520 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
523 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
524 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
525 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
526 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
527 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
528 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
529 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
530 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
531 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
532 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
533 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
534 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
535 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
536 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
537 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
539 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
541 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
542 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
543 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
545 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
546 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
547 list?" (Closes: #412634).
548 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
549 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
550 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
551 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
552 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
553 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
554 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
555 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
556 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
557 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
558 debconf specification.
559 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
560 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
562 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
564 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
567 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
568 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
569 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
570 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
572 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
574 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
575 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
576 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
577 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
578 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
580 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
581 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
582 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
583 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
584 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
585 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
586 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
587 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
588 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
589 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
590 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
591 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
592 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
593 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
594 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
595 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
597 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
599 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
600 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
601 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
602 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
603 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
604 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
605 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
606 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
608 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
610 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
613 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
614 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
615 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
616 Polo (Closes: #372497).
617 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
618 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
620 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
621 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
622 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
623 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
624 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
625 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
626 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
627 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
628 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
629 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
631 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
632 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
633 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
634 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
635 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
636 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
638 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
640 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
643 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
644 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
645 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
647 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
648 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
650 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
652 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
655 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
656 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
657 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
658 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
659 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
660 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
661 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
662 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
663 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
665 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
666 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
667 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
668 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
669 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
670 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
671 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
672 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
673 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
674 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
675 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
678 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
680 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
683 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
684 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
685 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
686 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
687 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
688 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
689 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
690 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
691 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
692 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
693 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
694 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
695 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
696 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
697 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
698 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
699 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
700 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
701 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
702 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
703 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
704 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
705 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
706 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
707 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
708 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
709 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
711 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
712 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
713 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
714 Hess (Closes: #362247).
715 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
716 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
717 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
718 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
719 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
720 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
721 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
722 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
723 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
724 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
725 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
726 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
728 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
729 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
731 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
732 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
733 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
734 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
735 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
736 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
737 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
738 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
739 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
740 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
741 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
743 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
745 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
749 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
750 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
751 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
752 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
753 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
754 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
755 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
756 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
757 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
758 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
759 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
760 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
762 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
763 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
764 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
765 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
766 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
767 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
768 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
769 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
770 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
771 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
772 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
773 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
774 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
775 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
776 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
777 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
778 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
779 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
780 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
783 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
785 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
788 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
789 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
790 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
792 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
793 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
794 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
795 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
797 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
799 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
803 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
804 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
805 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
806 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
807 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
808 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
809 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
810 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
811 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
813 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
814 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
815 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
817 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
818 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
819 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
820 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
821 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
822 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
823 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
825 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
826 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
827 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
828 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
830 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
831 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
832 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
833 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
834 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
835 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
836 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
837 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
839 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
840 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
841 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
842 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
843 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
844 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
845 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
846 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
847 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
848 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
849 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
850 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
851 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
852 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
853 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
854 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
855 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
857 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
859 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
862 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
863 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
864 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
865 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
866 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
867 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
868 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
869 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
870 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
872 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
873 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
874 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
875 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
876 this section. closes: Bug#248618
877 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
878 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
879 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
880 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
881 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
882 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
883 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
884 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
885 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
886 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
887 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
888 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
890 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
891 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
892 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
895 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
896 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
897 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
899 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
900 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
901 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
902 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
903 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
904 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
906 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
907 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
909 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
910 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
911 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
912 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
913 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
914 Closes: #185943, #237049
916 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
918 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
924 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
925 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
926 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
927 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
928 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
929 running. closes: Bug#187250
930 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
931 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
932 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
933 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
934 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
935 user closes: Bug#176506
937 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
939 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
943 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
944 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
945 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
946 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
947 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
948 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
949 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
950 deb-building toolchain.
951 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
952 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
953 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
954 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
955 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
956 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
957 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
958 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
959 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
960 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
961 sections about changelog files.
963 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
964 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
965 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
966 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
967 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
968 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
970 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
971 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
972 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
973 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
974 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
975 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
976 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
977 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
978 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
979 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
980 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
981 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
982 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
983 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
984 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
985 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
986 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
987 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
988 for the restructuring
990 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
992 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
997 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
998 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
999 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1000 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1001 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1002 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1004 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1005 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1006 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1007 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1008 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1009 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1010 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1012 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1013 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1014 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1015 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1017 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1019 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1023 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1024 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1025 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1026 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1027 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1029 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1030 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1031 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1032 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1034 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1035 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1036 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1037 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1038 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1039 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1040 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1041 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1042 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1043 offtopic stuff, too.
1044 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1045 script should start it, closes: #60979
1046 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1047 "should", closes: #170019
1048 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1049 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1050 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1051 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1052 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1053 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1054 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1055 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1058 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1060 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1064 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1065 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1066 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1067 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1068 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1069 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1070 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1071 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1073 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1074 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1075 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1076 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1077 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1078 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1079 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1080 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1081 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1083 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1084 file, closes: Bug#65764
1086 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1088 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1091 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1092 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1093 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1094 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1095 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1096 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1097 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1098 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1099 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1100 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1101 details. closes: Bug#133030
1102 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1103 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1104 parts of Bug#161455.
1106 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1108 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1111 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1112 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1113 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1114 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1115 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1116 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1117 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1118 not. closes: Bug#139820
1119 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1120 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1121 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1122 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1123 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1124 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1125 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1126 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1127 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1128 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1130 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1132 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1133 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1134 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1135 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1136 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1137 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1138 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1139 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1140 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1141 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1142 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1143 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1144 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1145 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1146 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1147 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1148 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1149 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1150 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1151 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1153 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1154 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1155 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1156 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1157 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1158 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1159 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1161 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1162 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1163 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1164 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1165 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1166 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1167 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1168 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1169 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1171 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1173 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1176 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1177 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1178 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1179 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1180 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1181 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1182 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1183 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1184 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1185 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1186 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1187 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1188 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1189 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1190 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1191 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1192 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1193 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1194 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1195 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1196 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1197 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1199 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1201 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1204 medium, high, emergency.
1205 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1206 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1207 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1208 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1209 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1212 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1213 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1214 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1216 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1217 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1218 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1219 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1220 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1221 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1222 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1225 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1227 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1230 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1231 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1232 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1234 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1235 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1236 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1237 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1238 debian/rules to do this
1239 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1240 patches are incorporated upstream
1241 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1242 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1243 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1244 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1245 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1246 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1248 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1249 system closes: Bug#91249
1250 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1251 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1252 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1253 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1254 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1255 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1256 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1257 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1258 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1259 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1260 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1261 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1262 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1264 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1266 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1269 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1270 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1271 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1273 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1274 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1275 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1277 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1280 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1282 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1285 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1286 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1287 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1288 package for the time being
1289 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1290 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1291 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1292 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1293 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1294 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1295 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1296 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1297 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1298 Build-Depends arch syntax
1299 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1301 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1302 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1304 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1305 from policy maintenance duties.
1306 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1307 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1309 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1311 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1315 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1317 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1320 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1321 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1322 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1323 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1324 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1325 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1326 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1327 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1328 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1329 minor version number for this
1330 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1331 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1332 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1333 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1334 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1335 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1336 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1337 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1338 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1340 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1342 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1345 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1346 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1347 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1348 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1350 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1352 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1353 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1354 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1355 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1356 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1357 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1358 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1359 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1360 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1361 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1362 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1363 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1364 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1365 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1366 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1367 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1370 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1372 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1375 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1377 * Document the Enhances relationship
1378 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1379 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1380 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1381 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1382 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1383 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1385 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1387 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1388 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1389 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1390 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1392 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1393 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1394 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1395 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1396 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1398 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1400 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1403 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1404 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1406 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1407 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1408 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1409 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1410 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1411 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1412 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1413 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1414 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1416 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1418 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1420 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1423 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1424 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1425 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1426 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1427 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1428 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1429 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1430 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1431 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1432 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1433 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1434 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1435 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1436 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1437 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1438 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1439 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1440 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1441 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1442 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1443 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1445 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1446 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1448 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1450 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1453 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1454 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1455 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1456 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1457 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1458 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1459 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1460 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1461 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1462 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1463 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1464 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1465 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1466 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1467 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1468 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1469 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1470 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1471 list closes: Bug#53756
1472 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1473 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1474 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1475 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1476 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1477 policy closes: Bug#53760
1478 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1479 policy closes: Bug#53761
1480 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1481 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1482 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1483 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1484 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1485 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1486 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1487 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1488 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1489 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1490 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1492 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1493 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1494 to install with older fileutils.
1495 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1496 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1497 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1498 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1500 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1501 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1503 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1505 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1508 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1510 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1512 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1515 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1517 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1520 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1523 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1525 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1527 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1529 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1532 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1534 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1536 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1539 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1540 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1541 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1542 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1543 directoried (closes: #41547)
1544 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1545 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1546 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1547 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1548 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1549 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1550 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1551 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1552 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1553 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1554 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1556 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1557 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1558 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1559 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1560 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1561 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1562 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1564 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1565 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1566 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1567 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1569 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1571 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1573 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1574 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1576 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1578 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1581 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1583 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1585 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1588 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1590 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1591 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1592 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1593 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1594 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1595 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1596 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1597 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1598 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1599 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1600 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1601 this closes: Bug#38612
1602 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1603 before. closes: Bug#40864
1605 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1607 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1610 officially uploaded.
1611 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1613 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1614 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1615 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1617 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1618 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1619 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1620 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1621 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1622 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1624 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1625 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1626 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1628 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1630 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1631 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1632 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1633 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1634 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1636 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1638 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1641 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1642 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1643 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1644 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1645 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1646 there). closes: Bug#34233
1647 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1648 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1649 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1650 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1651 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1653 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1655 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1658 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1659 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1660 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1663 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1664 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1665 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1666 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1667 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1670 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1671 number. closes: BUG#25911
1673 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1674 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1675 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1676 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1677 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1678 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1680 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1681 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1682 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1685 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1686 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1687 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1689 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1690 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1691 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1692 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1694 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1695 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1696 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1698 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1700 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1701 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1702 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1703 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1704 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1705 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1706 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1707 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1710 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1712 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1713 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1716 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1718 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1722 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1724 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1727 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1728 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1729 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1730 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1731 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1732 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1733 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1735 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1736 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1738 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1740 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1742 * non-maintainer release
1743 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1744 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1746 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1747 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1748 * no content changes
1749 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1751 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1753 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1757 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1759 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1763 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1764 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1765 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1767 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1768 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1770 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1771 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1772 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1773 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1775 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1776 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1777 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1778 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1779 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1780 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1781 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1783 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1784 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1785 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1788 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1789 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1790 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1792 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1793 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1794 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1796 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1797 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1799 * New version numbering scheme:
1801 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1802 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1803 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1806 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1807 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1808 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1809 differ between the manuals.
1811 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1812 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1813 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1814 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1816 * Packaging changes:
1818 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1819 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1821 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1823 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1825 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1829 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1830 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1831 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1833 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1834 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1837 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1838 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1839 file extension as the referenced file
1841 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1842 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1844 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1845 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1846 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1847 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1850 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1851 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1852 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1854 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1855 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1856 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1857 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1860 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1861 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1864 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1865 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1866 reasonable default configuration
1868 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1869 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1870 by all news servers and clients
1872 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1873 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1874 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1875 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1876 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1878 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1879 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1882 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1884 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1885 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1887 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1890 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1891 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1893 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1894 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1896 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1898 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1900 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1903 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1904 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1905 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1907 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1909 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1910 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1911 * Don't use debstd anymore
1913 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1915 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1918 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1919 contrib/non-free policy
1920 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1921 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1922 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1923 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1924 - new section about `Daemons'
1925 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1926 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1927 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1928 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1929 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1930 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1931 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1932 * SGML source code included in package
1933 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1935 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1937 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1940 - completely reworked structure
1941 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1942 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1943 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1944 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1945 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1946 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1947 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1948 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1949 - mention "orphaned packages"
1950 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1951 distributions' policy
1952 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1953 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1954 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1955 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1956 - added section about arch spec strings
1957 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1958 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1959 - added section about "menus"
1960 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1961 the new documentation policy soon
1962 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1963 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1965 - added section about editors and pagers
1966 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1967 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1968 - added section about device files
1969 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1970 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1971 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1973 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1974 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1975 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1976 - Added new section about obsolete names
1977 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1978 * Fixed package's description
1980 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1982 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1986 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1988 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1991 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1992 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1993 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1995 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1997 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2000 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2001 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2003 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2004 and upload it "byhand" too.
2006 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2008 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2012 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2013 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2014 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2015 functionality must not have the same name.
2016 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2017 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2018 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2019 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2020 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2021 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2022 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2024 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2025 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2026 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2027 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2028 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2029 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2030 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2031 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2034 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2036 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2038 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2040 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2041 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2042 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2043 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2044 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2047 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2049 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2051 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2053 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2054 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2055 description of deb file format.
2056 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2057 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2059 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2061 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2062 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2064 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2066 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2068 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2069 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2070 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2071 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2072 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2073 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2074 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2075 packages in section on Procedure
2076 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2077 a package maintainer
2078 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2079 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2080 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2082 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2083 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2084 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2085 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2086 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2087 on various shlib files
2088 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2089 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2090 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2092 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2094 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2096 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2097 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2098 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2100 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2101 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2102 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2103 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2104 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2106 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2108 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2110 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2112 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2114 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2115 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2116 compatibility go in contrib.
2118 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2119 instructions in policy manual.
2120 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2123 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2125 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2127 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2128 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2129 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2130 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2132 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2133 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2136 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2138 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2140 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2141 * More detail about changelog format names.
2143 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2144 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2148 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2150 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2152 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2154 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2156 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2158 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2160 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2162 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2163 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2164 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2166 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2168 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2170 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2172 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2174 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2178 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100