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 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
43 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
48 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
49 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
50 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
51 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
52 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
53 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
54 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
55 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
56 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
57 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
58 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
59 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
60 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
61 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
63 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200
65 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
69 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
71 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
72 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
76 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
79 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
80 Wording: Steve Langasek.
81 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
82 Seconded: Julien Cristau
86 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
87 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
88 Seconded: Russ Allbery
89 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
92 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
93 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
94 Seconded: Russ Allbery
96 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
97 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
98 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
99 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
100 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
101 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
102 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
103 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
106 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
107 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
108 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
109 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
110 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
111 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
112 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
114 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
115 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
116 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
117 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
118 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
119 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
120 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
123 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
124 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
125 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
126 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
127 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
129 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
132 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
133 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
136 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
137 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
140 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
142 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
145 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
149 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
150 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
154 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
155 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
159 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
160 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
163 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
164 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
166 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
167 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
172 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
173 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
177 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
178 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
182 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
183 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
187 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
188 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
192 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
193 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
197 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
198 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
199 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
200 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
201 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
202 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
203 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
204 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
205 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
206 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
207 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
208 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
209 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
210 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
211 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
213 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
214 Source field descriptions.
215 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
216 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
217 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
218 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
219 description says otherwise.
221 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
223 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
227 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
230 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
231 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
233 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
234 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
238 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
239 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
243 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
244 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
248 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
249 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
250 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
251 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
255 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
256 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
257 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
258 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
259 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
261 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
262 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
266 * Add myself to Uploaders.
269 * Add myself to Uploaders.
270 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
272 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
273 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
274 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
276 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
278 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
281 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
285 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
286 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
288 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
290 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
291 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
295 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
296 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
298 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
300 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
301 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
305 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
306 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
310 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
311 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
313 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
315 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
316 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
318 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
320 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
321 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
322 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
325 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
326 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
330 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
331 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
334 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
336 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
337 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
338 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
339 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
340 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
341 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
342 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
343 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
344 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
345 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
346 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
347 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
348 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
349 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
350 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
351 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
352 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
353 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
354 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
355 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
356 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
357 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
358 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
359 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
360 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
361 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
362 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
363 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
364 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
365 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
367 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
368 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
369 links was completed long ago.
370 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
372 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
374 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
377 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
379 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
381 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
384 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
385 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
386 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
387 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
388 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
389 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
390 Millan (Closes: #209008).
391 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
392 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
394 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
396 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
398 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
399 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
400 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
401 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
402 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
403 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
404 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
406 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
407 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
408 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
409 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
411 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
412 Küster (Closes: #403391).
413 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
414 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
415 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
416 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
417 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
418 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
422 Closes: #186700, #458910
423 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
424 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
427 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
428 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
429 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
430 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
431 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
432 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
433 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
434 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
436 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
437 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
439 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
440 * Add an md5sums control file.
441 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
442 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
443 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
444 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
445 currently part of policy.
446 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
447 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
448 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
451 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
453 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
456 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
457 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
458 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
459 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
460 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
461 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
462 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
463 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
464 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
465 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
466 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
467 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
468 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
469 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
470 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
472 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
474 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
475 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
476 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
478 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
479 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
480 list?" (Closes: #412634).
481 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
482 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
483 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
484 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
485 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
486 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
487 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
488 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
489 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
490 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
491 debconf specification.
492 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
493 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
495 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
497 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
500 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
501 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
502 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
503 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
505 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
507 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
508 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
509 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
510 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
511 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
513 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
514 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
515 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
516 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
517 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
518 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
519 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
520 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
521 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
522 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
523 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
524 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
525 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
526 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
527 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
528 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
530 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
532 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
533 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
534 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
535 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
536 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
537 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
538 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
539 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
541 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
543 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
546 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
547 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
548 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
549 Polo (Closes: #372497).
550 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
551 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
553 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
554 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
555 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
556 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
557 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
558 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
559 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
560 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
561 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
562 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
564 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
565 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
566 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
567 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
568 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
569 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
571 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
573 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
576 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
577 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
578 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
580 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
581 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
583 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
585 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
588 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
589 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
590 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
591 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
592 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
593 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
594 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
595 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
596 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
598 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
599 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
600 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
601 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
602 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
603 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
604 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
605 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
606 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
607 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
608 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
611 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
613 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
616 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
617 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
618 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
619 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
620 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
621 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
622 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
623 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
624 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
625 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
626 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
627 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
628 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
629 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
630 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
631 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
632 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
633 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
634 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
635 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
636 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
637 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
638 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
639 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
640 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
641 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
642 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
644 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
645 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
646 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
647 Hess (Closes: #362247).
648 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
649 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
650 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
651 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
652 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
653 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
654 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
655 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
656 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
657 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
658 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
659 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
661 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
662 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
664 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
665 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
666 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
667 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
668 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
669 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
670 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
671 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
672 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
673 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
674 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
676 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
678 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
682 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
683 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
684 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
685 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
686 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
687 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
688 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
689 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
690 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
691 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
692 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
693 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
695 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
696 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
697 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
698 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
699 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
700 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
701 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
702 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
703 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
704 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
705 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
706 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
707 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
708 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
709 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
710 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
711 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
712 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
713 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
716 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
718 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
721 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
722 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
723 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
725 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
726 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
727 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
728 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
730 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
732 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
736 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
737 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
738 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
739 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
740 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
741 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
742 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
743 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
744 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
746 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
747 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
748 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
750 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
751 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
752 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
753 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
754 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
755 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
756 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
758 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
759 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
760 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
761 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
763 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
764 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
765 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
766 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
767 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
768 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
769 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
770 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
772 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
773 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
774 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
775 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
776 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
777 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
778 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
779 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
780 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
781 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
782 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
783 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
784 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
785 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
786 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
787 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
788 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
790 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
792 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
795 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
796 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
797 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
798 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
799 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
800 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
801 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
802 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
803 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
805 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
806 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
807 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
808 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
809 this section. closes: Bug#248618
810 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
811 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
812 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
813 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
814 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
815 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
816 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
817 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
818 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
819 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
820 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
821 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
823 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
824 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
825 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
828 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
829 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
830 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
832 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
833 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
834 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
835 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
836 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
837 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
839 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
840 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
842 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
843 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
844 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
845 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
846 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
847 Closes: #185943, #237049
849 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
851 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
857 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
858 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
859 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
860 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
861 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
862 running. closes: Bug#187250
863 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
864 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
865 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
866 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
867 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
868 user closes: Bug#176506
870 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
872 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
876 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
877 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
878 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
879 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
880 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
881 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
882 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
883 deb-building toolchain.
884 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
885 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
886 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
887 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
888 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
889 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
890 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
891 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
892 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
893 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
894 sections about changelog files.
896 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
897 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
898 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
899 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
900 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
901 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
903 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
904 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
905 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
906 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
907 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
908 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
909 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
910 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
911 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
912 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
913 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
914 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
915 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
916 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
917 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
918 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
919 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
920 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
921 for the restructuring
923 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
925 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
930 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
931 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
932 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
933 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
934 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
935 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
937 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
938 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
939 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
940 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
941 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
942 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
943 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
945 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
946 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
947 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
948 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
950 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
952 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
956 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
957 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
958 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
959 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
960 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
962 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
963 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
964 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
965 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
967 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
968 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
969 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
970 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
971 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
972 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
973 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
974 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
975 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
977 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
978 script should start it, closes: #60979
979 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
980 "should", closes: #170019
981 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
982 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
983 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
984 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
985 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
986 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
987 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
988 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
991 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
993 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
997 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
998 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
999 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1000 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1001 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1002 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1003 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1004 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1006 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1007 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1008 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1009 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1010 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1011 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1012 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1013 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1014 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1016 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1017 file, closes: Bug#65764
1019 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1021 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1024 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1025 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1026 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1027 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1028 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1029 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1030 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1031 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1032 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1033 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1034 details. closes: Bug#133030
1035 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1036 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1037 parts of Bug#161455.
1039 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1041 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1044 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1045 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1046 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1047 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1048 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1049 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1050 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1051 not. closes: Bug#139820
1052 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1053 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1054 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1055 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1056 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1057 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1058 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1059 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1060 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1061 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1063 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1065 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1066 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1067 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1068 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1069 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1070 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1071 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1072 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1073 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1074 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1075 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1076 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1077 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1078 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1079 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1080 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1081 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1082 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1083 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1084 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1086 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1087 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1088 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1089 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1090 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1091 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1092 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1094 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1095 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1096 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1097 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1098 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1099 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1100 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1101 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1102 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1104 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1106 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1109 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1110 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1111 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1112 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1113 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1114 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1115 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1116 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1117 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1118 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1119 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1120 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1121 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1122 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1123 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1124 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1125 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1126 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1127 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1128 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1129 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1130 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1132 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1134 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1137 medium, high, emergency.
1138 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1139 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1140 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1141 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1142 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1145 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1146 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1147 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1149 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1150 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1151 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1152 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1153 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1154 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1155 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1158 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1160 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1163 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1164 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1165 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1167 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1168 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1169 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1170 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1171 debian/rules to do this
1172 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1173 patches are incorporated upstream
1174 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1175 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1176 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1177 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1178 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1179 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1181 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1182 system closes: Bug#91249
1183 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1184 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1185 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1186 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1187 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1188 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1189 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1190 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1191 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1192 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1193 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1194 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1195 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1197 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1199 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1202 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1203 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1204 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1206 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1207 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1208 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1210 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1213 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1215 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1218 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1219 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1220 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1221 package for the time being
1222 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1223 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1224 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1225 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1226 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1227 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1228 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1229 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1230 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1231 Build-Depends arch syntax
1232 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1234 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1235 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1237 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1238 from policy maintenance duties.
1239 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1240 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1242 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1244 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1248 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1250 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1253 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1254 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1255 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1256 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1257 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1258 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1259 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1260 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1261 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1262 minor version number for this
1263 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1264 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1265 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1266 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1267 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1268 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1269 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1270 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1271 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1273 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1275 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1278 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1279 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1280 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1281 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1283 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1285 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1286 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1287 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1288 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1289 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1290 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1291 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1292 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1293 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1294 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1295 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1296 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1297 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1298 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1299 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1300 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1303 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1305 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1308 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1310 * Document the Enhances relationship
1311 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1312 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1313 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1314 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1315 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1316 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1318 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1320 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1321 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1322 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1323 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1325 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1326 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1327 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1328 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1329 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1331 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1333 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1336 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1337 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1339 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1340 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1341 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1342 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1343 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1344 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1345 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1346 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1347 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1349 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1351 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1353 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1356 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1357 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1358 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1359 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1360 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1361 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1362 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1363 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1364 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1365 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1366 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1367 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1368 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1369 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1370 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1371 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1372 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1373 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1374 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1375 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1376 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1378 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1379 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1381 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1383 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1386 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1387 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1388 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1389 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1390 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1391 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1392 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1393 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1394 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1395 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1396 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1397 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1398 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1399 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1400 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1401 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1402 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1403 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1404 list closes: Bug#53756
1405 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1406 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1407 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1408 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1409 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1410 policy closes: Bug#53760
1411 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1412 policy closes: Bug#53761
1413 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1414 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1415 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1416 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1417 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1418 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1419 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1420 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1421 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1422 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1423 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1425 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1426 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1427 to install with older fileutils.
1428 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1429 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1430 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1431 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1433 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1434 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1436 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1438 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1441 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1443 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1445 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1448 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1450 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1453 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1456 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1458 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1460 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1462 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1465 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1467 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1469 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1472 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1473 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1474 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1475 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1476 directoried (closes: #41547)
1477 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1478 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1479 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1480 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1481 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1482 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1483 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1484 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1485 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1486 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1487 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1489 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1490 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1491 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1492 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1493 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1494 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1495 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1497 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1498 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1499 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1500 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1502 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1504 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1506 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1507 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1509 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1511 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1514 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1516 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1518 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1521 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1523 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1524 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1525 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1526 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1527 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1528 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1529 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1530 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1531 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1532 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1533 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1534 this closes: Bug#38612
1535 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1536 before. closes: Bug#40864
1538 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1540 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1543 officially uploaded.
1544 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1546 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1547 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1548 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1550 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1551 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1552 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1553 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1554 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1555 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1557 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1558 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1559 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1561 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1563 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1564 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1565 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1566 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1567 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1569 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1571 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1574 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1575 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1576 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1577 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1578 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1579 there). closes: Bug#34233
1580 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1581 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1582 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1583 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1584 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1586 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1588 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1591 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1592 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1593 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1596 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1597 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1598 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1599 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1600 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1603 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1604 number. closes: BUG#25911
1606 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1607 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1608 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1609 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1610 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1611 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1613 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1614 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1615 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1618 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1619 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1620 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1622 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1623 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1624 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1625 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1627 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1628 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1629 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1631 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1633 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1634 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1635 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1636 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1637 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1638 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1639 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1640 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1643 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1645 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1646 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1649 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1651 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1655 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1657 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1660 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1661 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1662 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1663 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1664 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1665 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1666 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1668 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1669 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1671 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1673 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1675 * non-maintainer release
1676 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1677 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1679 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1680 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1681 * no content changes
1682 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1684 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1686 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1690 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1692 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1696 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1697 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1698 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1700 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1701 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1703 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1704 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1705 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1706 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1708 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1709 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1710 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1711 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1712 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1713 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1714 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1716 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1717 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1718 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1721 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1722 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1723 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1725 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1726 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1727 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1729 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1730 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1732 * New version numbering scheme:
1734 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1735 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1736 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1739 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1740 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1741 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1742 differ between the manuals.
1744 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1745 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1746 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1747 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1749 * Packaging changes:
1751 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1752 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1754 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1756 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1758 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1762 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1763 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1764 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1766 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1767 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1770 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1771 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1772 file extension as the referenced file
1774 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1775 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1777 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1778 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1779 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1780 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1783 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1784 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1785 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1787 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1788 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1789 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1790 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1793 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1794 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1797 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1798 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1799 reasonable default configuration
1801 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1802 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1803 by all news servers and clients
1805 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1806 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1807 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1808 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1809 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1811 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1812 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1815 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1817 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1818 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1820 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1823 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1824 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1826 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1827 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1829 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1831 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1833 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1836 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1837 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1838 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1840 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1842 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1843 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1844 * Don't use debstd anymore
1846 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1848 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1851 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1852 contrib/non-free policy
1853 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1854 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1855 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1856 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1857 - new section about `Daemons'
1858 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1859 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1860 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1861 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1862 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1863 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1864 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1865 * SGML source code included in package
1866 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1868 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1870 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1873 - completely reworked structure
1874 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1875 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1876 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1877 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1878 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1879 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1880 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1881 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1882 - mention "orphaned packages"
1883 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1884 distributions' policy
1885 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1886 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1887 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1888 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1889 - added section about arch spec strings
1890 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1891 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1892 - added section about "menus"
1893 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1894 the new documentation policy soon
1895 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1896 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1898 - added section about editors and pagers
1899 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1900 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1901 - added section about device files
1902 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1903 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1904 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1906 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1907 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1908 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1909 - Added new section about obsolete names
1910 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1911 * Fixed package's description
1913 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1915 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1919 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1921 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1924 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1925 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1926 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1928 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1930 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1933 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1934 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1936 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1937 and upload it "byhand" too.
1939 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1941 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1945 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1946 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1947 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1948 functionality must not have the same name.
1949 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1950 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1951 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1952 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1953 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1954 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1955 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1957 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1958 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1959 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1960 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1961 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1962 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1963 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1964 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1967 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1969 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1971 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1973 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1974 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1975 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1976 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1977 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1980 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1982 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1984 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1986 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1987 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1988 description of deb file format.
1989 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1990 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1992 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1994 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1995 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1997 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1999 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2001 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2002 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2003 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2004 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2005 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2006 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2007 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2008 packages in section on Procedure
2009 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2010 a package maintainer
2011 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2012 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2013 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2015 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2016 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2017 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2018 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2019 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2020 on various shlib files
2021 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2022 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2023 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2025 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2027 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2029 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2030 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2031 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2033 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2034 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2035 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2036 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2037 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2039 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2041 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2043 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2045 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2047 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2048 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2049 compatibility go in contrib.
2051 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2052 instructions in policy manual.
2053 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2056 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2058 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2060 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2061 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2062 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2063 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2065 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2066 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2069 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2071 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2073 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2074 * More detail about changelog format names.
2076 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2077 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2081 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2083 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2085 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2087 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2089 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2091 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2093 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2095 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2096 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2097 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2099 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2101 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2103 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2105 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2107 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2111 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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