1 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
7 Closes: #459868, #581011
8 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
9 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
13 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
14 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
15 machine. (Closes: #591857)
16 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
17 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
18 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
19 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
20 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
21 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
22 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
23 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
24 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
25 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
26 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
27 than the version in oldstable.
28 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
29 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
30 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
31 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
33 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:47:47 -0700
35 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
38 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
39 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
43 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
44 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
48 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
49 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
53 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
54 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
58 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
59 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
63 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
64 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
68 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
69 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
73 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
74 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
76 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
78 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
79 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
81 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
83 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
84 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
89 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
90 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
95 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
96 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
100 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
101 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
105 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
106 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
110 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
111 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
115 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
116 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
120 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
121 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
125 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
127 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
128 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
129 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
130 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
131 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
132 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
133 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
134 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
135 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
137 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
138 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
139 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
140 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
141 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
142 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
144 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
146 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
152 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
155 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
156 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
157 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
158 and distribution license' (three times).
159 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
160 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
165 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
167 Proposed by Santiago Vila
168 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
175 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
176 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
180 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
181 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
182 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
185 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
187 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
188 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
192 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
196 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
198 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
199 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
202 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
204 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
205 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
208 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
210 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
211 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
212 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
215 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
216 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
221 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
222 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
226 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
227 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
231 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
232 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
237 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
238 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
239 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
242 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
243 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
248 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
249 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
253 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
254 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
255 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
256 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
257 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
258 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
259 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
260 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
261 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
262 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
263 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
264 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
265 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
266 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
267 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
268 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
269 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
270 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
271 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
272 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
273 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
274 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
275 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
276 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
277 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
278 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
279 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
280 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
281 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
282 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
283 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
284 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
286 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
288 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
290 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
294 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
296 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
297 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
301 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
304 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
305 Wording: Steve Langasek.
306 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
307 Seconded: Julien Cristau
308 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
311 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
312 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
313 Seconded: Russ Allbery
314 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
317 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
318 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
319 Seconded: Russ Allbery
321 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
322 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
323 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
324 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
325 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
326 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
327 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
328 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
331 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
332 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
333 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
334 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
335 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
336 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
337 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
339 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
340 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
341 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
342 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
343 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
344 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
345 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
348 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
349 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
350 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
351 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
352 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
354 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
357 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
358 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
361 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
362 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
365 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
367 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
370 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
374 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
375 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
379 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
380 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
384 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
385 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
388 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
389 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
391 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
392 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
397 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
398 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
402 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
403 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
407 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
408 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
412 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
413 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
417 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
418 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
422 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
423 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
424 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
425 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
426 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
427 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
428 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
429 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
430 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
431 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
432 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
433 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
434 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
435 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
436 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
438 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
439 Source field descriptions.
440 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
441 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
442 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
443 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
444 description says otherwise.
446 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
448 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
452 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
455 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
456 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
458 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
459 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
463 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
464 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
468 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
469 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
473 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
474 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
475 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
476 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
480 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
481 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
482 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
483 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
484 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
486 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
487 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
491 * Add myself to Uploaders.
494 * Add myself to Uploaders.
495 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
497 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
498 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
499 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
501 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
503 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
506 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
510 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
511 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
512 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
513 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
515 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
516 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
517 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
520 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
521 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
522 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
523 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
525 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
526 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
530 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
531 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
535 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
536 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
538 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
540 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
541 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
543 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
545 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
546 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
547 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
550 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
551 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
555 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
556 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
559 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
561 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
562 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
563 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
564 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
565 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
566 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
567 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
568 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
569 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
570 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
571 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
572 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
573 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
574 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
575 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
576 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
577 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
578 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
579 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
580 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
581 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
582 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
583 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
584 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
585 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
586 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
587 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
588 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
589 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
590 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
592 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
593 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
594 links was completed long ago.
595 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
597 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
599 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
602 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
604 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
606 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
609 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
610 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
611 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
612 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
613 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
614 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
615 Millan (Closes: #209008).
616 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
617 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
619 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
621 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
623 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
624 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
625 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
626 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
627 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
628 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
629 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
631 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
632 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
633 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
634 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
636 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
637 Küster (Closes: #403391).
638 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
639 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
640 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
641 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
642 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
643 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
647 Closes: #186700, #458910
648 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
649 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
652 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
653 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
654 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
655 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
656 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
657 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
658 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
659 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
661 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
662 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
664 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
665 * Add an md5sums control file.
666 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
667 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
668 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
669 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
670 currently part of policy.
671 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
672 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
673 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
676 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
678 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
681 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
682 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
683 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
684 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
685 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
686 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
687 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
688 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
689 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
690 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
691 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
692 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
693 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
694 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
695 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
697 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
699 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
700 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
701 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
703 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
704 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
705 list?" (Closes: #412634).
706 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
707 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
708 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
709 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
710 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
711 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
712 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
713 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
714 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
715 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
716 debconf specification.
717 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
718 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
720 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
722 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
724 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
725 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
726 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
727 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
728 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
730 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
732 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
733 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
734 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
735 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
736 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
738 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
739 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
740 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
741 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
742 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
743 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
744 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
745 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
746 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
747 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
748 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
749 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
750 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
751 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
752 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
753 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
755 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
757 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
758 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
759 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
760 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
761 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
762 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
763 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
764 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
766 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
768 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
771 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
772 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
773 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
774 Polo (Closes: #372497).
775 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
776 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
778 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
779 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
780 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
781 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
782 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
783 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
784 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
785 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
786 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
787 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
789 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
790 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
791 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
792 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
793 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
794 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
796 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
798 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
801 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
802 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
803 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
805 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
806 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
808 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
810 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
813 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
814 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
815 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
816 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
817 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
818 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
819 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
820 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
821 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
823 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
824 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
825 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
826 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
827 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
828 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
829 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
830 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
831 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
832 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
833 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
836 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
838 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
841 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
842 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
843 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
844 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
845 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
846 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
847 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
848 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
849 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
850 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
851 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
852 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
853 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
854 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
855 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
856 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
857 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
858 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
859 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
860 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
861 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
862 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
863 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
864 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
865 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
866 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
867 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
869 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
870 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
871 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
872 Hess (Closes: #362247).
873 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
874 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
875 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
876 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
877 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
878 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
879 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
880 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
881 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
882 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
883 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
884 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
886 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
887 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
890 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
891 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
892 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
893 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
894 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
895 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
896 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
897 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
898 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
899 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
901 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
903 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
907 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
908 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
909 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
910 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
911 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
912 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
913 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
914 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
915 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
916 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
917 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
918 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
920 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
921 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
922 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
923 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
924 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
925 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
926 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
927 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
928 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
929 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
930 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
931 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
932 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
933 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
934 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
935 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
936 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
937 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
938 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
941 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
943 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
946 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
947 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
948 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
950 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
951 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
952 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
953 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
955 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
957 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
961 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
962 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
963 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
964 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
965 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
966 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
967 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
968 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
969 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
971 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
972 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
973 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
975 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
976 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
977 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
978 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
979 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
980 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
981 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
983 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
984 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
985 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
986 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
988 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
989 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
990 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
991 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
992 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
993 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
994 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
995 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
997 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
998 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
999 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1000 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1001 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1002 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1003 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1004 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1005 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1006 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1007 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1008 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1009 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1010 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1011 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1012 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1013 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1015 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1017 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1021 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1022 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1023 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1024 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1025 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1026 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1027 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1028 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1030 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1031 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1032 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1033 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1034 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1035 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1036 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1037 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1038 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1039 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1040 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1041 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1042 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1043 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1044 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1045 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1046 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1048 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1049 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1050 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1053 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1054 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1055 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1057 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1058 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1059 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1060 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1061 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1062 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1064 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1065 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1067 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1068 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1069 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1070 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1071 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1072 Closes: #185943, #237049
1074 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1076 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1082 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1083 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1084 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1085 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1086 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1087 running. closes: Bug#187250
1088 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1089 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1090 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1091 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1092 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1093 user closes: Bug#176506
1095 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1097 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1101 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1102 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1103 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1104 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1105 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1106 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1107 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1108 deb-building toolchain.
1109 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1110 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1111 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1112 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1113 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1114 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1115 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1116 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1117 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1118 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1119 sections about changelog files.
1121 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1122 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1123 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1124 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1125 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1126 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1128 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1129 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1130 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1131 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1132 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1133 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1134 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1135 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1136 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1137 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1138 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1139 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1140 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1141 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1142 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1143 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1144 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1145 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1146 for the restructuring
1148 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1150 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1155 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1156 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1157 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1158 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1159 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1160 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1162 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1163 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1164 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1165 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1166 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1167 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1168 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1170 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1171 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1172 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1173 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1175 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1177 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1181 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1182 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1183 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1184 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1185 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1187 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1188 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1189 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1190 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1192 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1193 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1194 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1195 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1196 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1197 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1198 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1199 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1200 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1201 offtopic stuff, too.
1202 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1203 script should start it, closes: #60979
1204 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1205 "should", closes: #170019
1206 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1207 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1208 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1209 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1210 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1211 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1212 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1213 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1216 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1218 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1222 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1223 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1224 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1225 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1226 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1227 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1228 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1229 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1231 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1232 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1233 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1234 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1235 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1236 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1237 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1238 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1239 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1241 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1242 file, closes: Bug#65764
1244 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1246 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1249 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1250 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1251 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1252 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1253 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1254 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1255 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1256 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1257 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1258 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1259 details. closes: Bug#133030
1260 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1261 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1262 parts of Bug#161455.
1264 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1266 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1269 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1270 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1271 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1272 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1273 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1274 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1275 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1276 not. closes: Bug#139820
1277 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1278 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1279 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1280 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1281 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1282 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1283 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1284 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1285 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1286 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1288 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1290 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1291 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1292 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1293 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1294 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1295 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1296 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1297 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1298 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1299 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1300 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1301 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1302 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1303 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1304 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1305 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1306 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1307 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1308 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1309 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1311 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1312 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1313 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1314 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1315 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1316 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1317 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1319 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1320 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1321 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1322 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1323 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1324 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1325 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1326 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1327 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1329 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1331 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1334 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1335 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1336 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1337 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1338 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1339 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1340 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1341 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1342 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1343 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1344 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1345 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1346 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1347 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1348 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1349 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1350 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1351 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1352 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1353 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1354 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1355 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1357 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1359 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1362 medium, high, emergency.
1363 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1364 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1365 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1366 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1367 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1370 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1371 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1372 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1374 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1375 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1376 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1377 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1378 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1379 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1380 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1383 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1385 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1388 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1389 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1390 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1392 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1393 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1394 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1395 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1396 debian/rules to do this
1397 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1398 patches are incorporated upstream
1399 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1400 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1401 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1402 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1403 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1404 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1406 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1407 system closes: Bug#91249
1408 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1409 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1410 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1411 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1412 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1413 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1414 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1415 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1416 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1417 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1418 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1419 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1420 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1422 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1424 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1427 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1428 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1429 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1431 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1432 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1433 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1435 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1438 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1440 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1443 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1444 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1445 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1446 package for the time being
1447 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1448 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1449 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1450 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1451 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1452 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1453 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1454 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1455 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1456 Build-Depends arch syntax
1457 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1459 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1460 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1462 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1463 from policy maintenance duties.
1464 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1465 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1467 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1469 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1473 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1475 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1478 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1479 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1480 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1481 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1482 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1483 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1484 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1485 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1486 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1487 minor version number for this
1488 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1489 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1490 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1491 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1492 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1493 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1494 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1495 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1496 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1498 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1500 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1503 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1504 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1505 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1506 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1508 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1510 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1511 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1512 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1513 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1514 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1515 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1516 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1517 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1518 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1519 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1520 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1521 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1522 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1523 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1524 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1525 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1528 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1530 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1533 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1535 * Document the Enhances relationship
1536 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1537 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1538 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1539 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1540 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1541 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1543 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1545 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1546 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1547 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1548 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1550 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1551 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1552 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1553 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1554 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1556 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1558 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1561 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1562 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1564 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1565 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1566 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1567 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1568 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1569 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1570 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1571 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1572 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1574 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1576 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1578 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1581 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1582 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1583 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1584 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1585 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1586 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1587 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1588 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1589 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1590 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1591 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1592 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1593 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1594 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1595 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1596 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1597 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1598 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1599 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1600 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1601 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1603 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1604 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1606 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1608 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1611 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1612 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1613 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1614 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1615 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1616 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1617 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1618 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1619 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1620 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1621 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1622 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1623 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1624 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1625 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1626 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1627 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1628 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1629 list closes: Bug#53756
1630 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1631 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1632 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1633 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1634 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1635 policy closes: Bug#53760
1636 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1637 policy closes: Bug#53761
1638 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1639 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1640 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1641 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1642 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1643 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1644 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1645 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1646 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1647 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1648 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1650 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1651 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1652 to install with older fileutils.
1653 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1654 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1655 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1656 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1658 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1659 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1661 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1663 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1666 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1668 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1670 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1673 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1675 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1678 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1681 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1683 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1685 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1687 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1690 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1692 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1694 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1697 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1698 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1699 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1700 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1701 directoried (closes: #41547)
1702 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1703 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1704 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1705 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1706 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1707 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1708 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1709 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1710 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1711 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1712 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1714 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1715 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1716 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1717 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1718 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1719 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1720 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1722 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1723 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1724 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1725 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1727 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1729 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1731 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1732 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1734 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1736 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1739 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1741 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1743 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1746 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1748 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1749 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1750 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1751 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1752 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1753 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1754 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1755 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1756 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1757 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1758 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1759 this closes: Bug#38612
1760 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1761 before. closes: Bug#40864
1763 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1765 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1768 officially uploaded.
1769 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1771 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1772 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1773 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1775 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1776 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1777 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1778 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1779 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1780 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1782 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1783 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1784 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1786 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1788 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1789 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1790 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1791 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1792 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1794 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1796 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1799 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1800 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1801 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1802 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1803 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1804 there). closes: Bug#34233
1805 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1806 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1807 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1808 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1809 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1811 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1813 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1816 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1817 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1818 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1821 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1822 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1823 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1824 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1825 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1828 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1829 number. closes: BUG#25911
1831 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1832 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1833 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1834 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1835 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1836 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1838 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1839 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1840 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1843 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1844 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1845 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1847 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1848 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1849 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1850 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1852 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1853 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1854 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1856 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1858 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1859 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1860 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1861 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1862 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1863 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1864 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1865 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1868 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1870 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1871 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1874 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1876 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1880 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1882 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1885 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1886 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1887 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1888 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1889 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1890 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1891 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1893 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1894 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1896 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1898 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1900 * non-maintainer release
1901 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1902 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1904 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1905 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1906 * no content changes
1907 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1909 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1911 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1915 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1917 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1921 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1922 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1923 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1925 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1926 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1928 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1929 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1930 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1931 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1933 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1934 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1935 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1936 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1937 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1938 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1939 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1941 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1942 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1943 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1946 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1947 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1948 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1950 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1951 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1952 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1954 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1955 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1957 * New version numbering scheme:
1959 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1960 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1961 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1964 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1965 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1966 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1967 differ between the manuals.
1969 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1970 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1971 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1972 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1974 * Packaging changes:
1976 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1977 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1979 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1981 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1983 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1987 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1988 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1989 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1991 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1992 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1995 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1996 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1997 file extension as the referenced file
1999 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2000 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2002 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2003 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2004 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2005 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2008 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2009 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2010 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2012 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2013 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2014 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2015 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2018 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2019 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2022 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2023 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2024 reasonable default configuration
2026 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2027 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2028 by all news servers and clients
2030 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2031 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2032 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2033 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2034 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2036 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2037 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2040 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2042 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2043 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2045 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2048 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2049 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2051 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2052 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2054 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2056 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2058 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2061 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2062 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2063 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2065 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2067 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2068 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2069 * Don't use debstd anymore
2071 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2073 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2076 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2077 contrib/non-free policy
2078 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2079 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2080 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2081 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2082 - new section about `Daemons'
2083 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2084 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2085 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2086 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2087 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2088 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2089 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2090 * SGML source code included in package
2091 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2093 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2095 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2098 - completely reworked structure
2099 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2100 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2101 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2102 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2103 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2104 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2105 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2106 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2107 - mention "orphaned packages"
2108 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2109 distributions' policy
2110 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2111 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2112 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2113 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2114 - added section about arch spec strings
2115 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2116 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2117 - added section about "menus"
2118 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2119 the new documentation policy soon
2120 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2121 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2123 - added section about editors and pagers
2124 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2125 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2126 - added section about device files
2127 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2128 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2129 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2131 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2132 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2133 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2134 - Added new section about obsolete names
2135 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2136 * Fixed package's description
2138 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2140 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2144 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2146 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2149 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2150 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2151 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2153 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2155 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2158 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2159 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2161 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2162 and upload it "byhand" too.
2164 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2166 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2170 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2171 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2172 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2173 functionality must not have the same name.
2174 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2175 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2176 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2177 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2178 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2179 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2180 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2182 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2183 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2184 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2185 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2186 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2187 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2188 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2189 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2192 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2194 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2196 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2198 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2199 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2200 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2201 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2202 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2205 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2207 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2209 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2211 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2212 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2213 description of deb file format.
2214 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2215 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2217 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2219 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2220 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2222 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2224 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2226 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2227 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2228 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2229 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2230 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2231 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2232 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2233 packages in section on Procedure
2234 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2235 a package maintainer
2236 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2237 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2238 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2240 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2241 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2242 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2243 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2244 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2245 on various shlib files
2246 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2247 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2248 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2250 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2252 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2254 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2255 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2256 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2258 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2259 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2260 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2261 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2262 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2264 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2266 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2268 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2270 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2272 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2273 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2274 compatibility go in contrib.
2276 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2277 instructions in policy manual.
2278 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2281 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2283 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2285 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2286 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2287 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2288 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2290 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2291 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2294 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2296 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2298 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2299 * More detail about changelog format names.
2301 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2302 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2306 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2308 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2310 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2312 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2314 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2316 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2318 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2320 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2321 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2322 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2324 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2326 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2328 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2330 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2332 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2336 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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