1 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
9 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
10 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
15 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
25 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
29 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
30 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
34 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
36 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
37 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
38 * Add Pre-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep to the relationships not
39 allowed from main to contrib or non-free and mention that such
40 relationships are okay if the non-free package is only an
41 alternative. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #587279)
42 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
43 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
44 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
46 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
48 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
54 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
57 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
58 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
59 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
60 and distribution license' (three times).
61 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
62 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
67 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
69 Proposed by Santiago Vila
70 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
77 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
78 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
82 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
83 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
84 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
87 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
89 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
90 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
94 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
95 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
98 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
100 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
101 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
104 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
106 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
107 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
110 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
112 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
113 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
114 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
117 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
118 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
123 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
124 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
128 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
129 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
133 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
134 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
139 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
140 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
141 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
144 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
145 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
150 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
151 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
155 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
156 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
157 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
158 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
159 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
160 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
161 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
162 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
163 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
164 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
165 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
166 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
167 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
168 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
169 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
170 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
171 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
172 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
173 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
174 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
175 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
176 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
177 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
178 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
179 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
180 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
181 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
182 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
183 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
184 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
185 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
186 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
188 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
190 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
192 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
196 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
198 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
199 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
203 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
206 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
207 Wording: Steve Langasek.
208 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
209 Seconded: Julien Cristau
210 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
213 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
214 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
215 Seconded: Russ Allbery
216 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
219 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
220 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
221 Seconded: Russ Allbery
223 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
224 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
225 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
226 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
227 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
228 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
229 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
230 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
233 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
234 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
235 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
236 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
237 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
238 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
239 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
241 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
242 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
243 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
244 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
245 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
246 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
247 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
250 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
251 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
252 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
253 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
254 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
256 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
259 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
260 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
263 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
264 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
267 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
269 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
272 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
276 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
277 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
281 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
282 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
286 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
287 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
290 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
291 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
293 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
294 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
299 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
300 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
304 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
305 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
309 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
310 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
314 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
315 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
319 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
320 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
324 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
325 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
326 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
327 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
328 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
329 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
330 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
331 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
332 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
333 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
334 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
335 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
336 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
337 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
338 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
340 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
341 Source field descriptions.
342 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
343 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
344 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
345 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
346 description says otherwise.
348 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
350 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
354 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
357 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
358 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
360 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
361 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
365 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
366 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
370 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
371 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
375 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
376 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
377 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
378 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
382 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
383 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
384 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
385 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
386 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
388 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
389 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
393 * Add myself to Uploaders.
396 * Add myself to Uploaders.
397 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
399 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
400 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
401 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
403 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
405 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
408 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
412 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
413 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
415 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
417 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
418 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
422 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
423 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
425 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
427 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
428 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
432 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
433 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
437 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
438 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
440 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
442 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
443 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
445 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
447 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
448 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
449 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
452 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
453 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
457 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
458 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
461 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
463 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
464 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
465 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
466 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
467 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
468 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
469 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
470 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
471 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
472 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
473 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
474 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
475 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
476 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
477 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
478 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
479 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
480 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
481 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
482 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
483 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
484 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
485 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
486 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
487 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
488 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
489 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
490 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
491 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
492 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
494 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
495 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
496 links was completed long ago.
497 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
499 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
501 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
504 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
506 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
508 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
511 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
512 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
513 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
514 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
515 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
516 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
517 Millan (Closes: #209008).
518 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
519 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
521 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
523 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
525 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
526 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
527 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
528 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
529 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
530 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
531 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
533 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
534 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
535 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
536 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
538 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
539 Küster (Closes: #403391).
540 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
541 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
542 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
543 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
544 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
545 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
549 Closes: #186700, #458910
550 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
551 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
554 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
555 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
556 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
557 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
558 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
559 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
560 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
561 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
563 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
564 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
566 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
567 * Add an md5sums control file.
568 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
569 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
570 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
571 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
572 currently part of policy.
573 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
574 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
575 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
578 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
580 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
583 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
584 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
585 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
586 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
587 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
588 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
589 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
590 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
591 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
592 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
593 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
594 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
595 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
596 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
597 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
599 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
601 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
602 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
603 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
605 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
606 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
607 list?" (Closes: #412634).
608 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
609 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
610 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
611 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
612 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
613 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
614 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
615 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
616 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
617 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
618 debconf specification.
619 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
620 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
622 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
624 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
627 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
628 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
629 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
630 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
632 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
634 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
635 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
636 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
637 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
638 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
640 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
641 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
642 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
643 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
644 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
645 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
646 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
647 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
648 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
649 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
650 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
651 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
652 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
653 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
654 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
655 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
657 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
659 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
660 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
661 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
662 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
663 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
664 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
665 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
666 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
668 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
670 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
673 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
674 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
675 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
676 Polo (Closes: #372497).
677 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
678 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
680 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
681 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
682 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
683 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
684 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
685 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
686 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
687 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
688 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
689 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
691 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
692 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
693 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
694 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
695 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
696 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
698 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
700 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
703 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
704 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
705 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
707 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
708 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
710 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
712 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
715 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
716 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
717 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
718 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
719 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
720 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
721 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
722 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
723 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
725 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
726 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
727 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
728 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
729 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
730 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
731 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
732 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
733 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
734 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
735 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
738 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
740 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
743 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
744 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
745 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
746 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
747 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
748 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
749 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
750 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
751 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
752 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
753 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
754 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
755 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
756 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
757 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
758 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
759 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
760 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
761 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
762 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
763 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
764 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
765 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
766 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
767 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
768 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
769 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
771 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
772 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
773 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
774 Hess (Closes: #362247).
775 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
776 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
777 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
778 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
779 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
780 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
781 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
782 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
783 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
784 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
785 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
786 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
788 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
789 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
791 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
792 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
793 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
794 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
795 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
796 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
797 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
798 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
799 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
800 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
801 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
803 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
805 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
809 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
810 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
811 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
812 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
813 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
814 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
815 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
816 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
817 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
818 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
819 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
820 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
822 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
823 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
824 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
825 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
826 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
827 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
828 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
829 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
830 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
831 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
832 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
833 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
834 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
835 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
836 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
837 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
838 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
839 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
840 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
843 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
845 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
848 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
849 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
850 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
852 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
853 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
854 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
855 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
857 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
859 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
863 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
864 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
865 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
866 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
867 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
868 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
869 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
870 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
871 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
873 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
874 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
875 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
877 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
878 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
879 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
880 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
881 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
882 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
883 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
885 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
886 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
887 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
888 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
890 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
891 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
892 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
893 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
894 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
895 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
896 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
897 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
899 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
900 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
901 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
902 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
903 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
904 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
905 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
906 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
907 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
908 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
909 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
910 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
911 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
912 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
913 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
914 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
915 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
917 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
919 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
922 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
923 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
924 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
925 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
926 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
927 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
928 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
929 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
930 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
932 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
933 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
934 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
935 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
936 this section. closes: Bug#248618
937 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
938 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
939 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
940 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
941 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
942 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
943 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
944 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
945 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
946 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
947 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
948 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
950 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
951 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
952 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
955 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
956 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
957 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
959 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
960 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
961 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
962 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
963 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
964 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
966 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
967 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
969 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
970 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
971 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
972 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
973 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
974 Closes: #185943, #237049
976 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
978 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
984 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
985 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
986 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
987 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
988 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
989 running. closes: Bug#187250
990 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
991 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
992 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
993 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
994 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
995 user closes: Bug#176506
997 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
999 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1003 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1004 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1005 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1006 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1007 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1008 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1009 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1010 deb-building toolchain.
1011 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1012 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1013 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1014 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1015 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1016 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1017 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1018 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1019 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1020 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1021 sections about changelog files.
1023 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1024 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1025 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1026 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1027 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1028 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1030 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1031 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1032 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1033 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1034 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1035 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1036 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1037 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1038 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1039 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1040 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1041 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1042 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1043 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1044 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1045 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1046 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1047 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1048 for the restructuring
1050 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1052 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1057 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1058 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1059 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1060 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1061 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1062 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1064 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1065 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1066 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1067 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1068 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1069 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1070 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1072 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1073 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1074 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1075 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1077 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1079 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1083 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1084 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1085 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1086 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1087 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1089 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1090 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1091 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1092 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1094 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1095 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1096 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1097 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1098 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1099 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1100 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1101 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1102 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1103 offtopic stuff, too.
1104 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1105 script should start it, closes: #60979
1106 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1107 "should", closes: #170019
1108 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1109 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1110 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1111 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1112 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1113 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1114 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1115 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1118 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1120 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1124 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1125 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1126 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1127 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1128 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1129 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1130 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1131 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1133 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1134 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1135 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1136 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1137 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1138 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1139 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1140 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1141 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1143 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1144 file, closes: Bug#65764
1146 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1148 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1151 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1152 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1153 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1154 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1155 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1156 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1157 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1158 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1159 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1160 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1161 details. closes: Bug#133030
1162 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1163 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1164 parts of Bug#161455.
1166 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1168 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1171 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1172 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1173 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1174 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1175 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1176 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1177 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1178 not. closes: Bug#139820
1179 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1180 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1181 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1182 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1183 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1184 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1185 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1186 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1187 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1188 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1190 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1192 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1193 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1194 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1195 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1196 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1197 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1198 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1199 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1200 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1201 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1202 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1203 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1204 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1205 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1206 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1207 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1208 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1209 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1210 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1211 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1213 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1214 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1215 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1216 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1217 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1218 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1219 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1221 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1222 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1223 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1224 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1225 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1226 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1227 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1228 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1229 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1231 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1233 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1236 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1237 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1238 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1239 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1240 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1241 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1242 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1243 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1244 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1245 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1246 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1247 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1248 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1249 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1250 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1251 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1252 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1253 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1254 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1255 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1256 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1257 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1259 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1261 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1264 medium, high, emergency.
1265 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1266 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1267 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1268 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1269 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1272 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1273 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1274 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1276 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1277 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1278 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1279 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1280 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1281 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1282 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1285 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1287 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1290 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1291 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1292 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1294 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1295 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1296 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1297 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1298 debian/rules to do this
1299 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1300 patches are incorporated upstream
1301 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1302 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1303 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1304 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1305 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1306 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1308 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1309 system closes: Bug#91249
1310 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1311 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1312 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1313 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1314 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1315 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1316 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1317 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1318 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1319 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1320 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1321 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1322 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1324 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1326 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1329 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1330 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1331 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1333 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1334 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1335 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1337 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1340 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1342 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1345 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1346 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1347 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1348 package for the time being
1349 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1350 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1351 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1352 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1353 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1354 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1355 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1356 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1357 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1358 Build-Depends arch syntax
1359 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1361 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1362 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1364 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1365 from policy maintenance duties.
1366 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1367 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1369 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1371 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1375 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1377 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1380 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1381 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1382 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1383 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1384 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1385 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1386 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1387 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1388 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1389 minor version number for this
1390 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1391 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1392 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1393 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1394 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1395 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1396 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1397 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1398 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1400 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1402 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1405 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1406 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1407 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1408 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1410 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1412 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1413 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1414 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1415 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1416 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1417 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1418 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1419 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1420 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1421 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1422 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1423 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1424 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1425 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1426 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1427 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1430 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1432 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1435 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1437 * Document the Enhances relationship
1438 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1439 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1440 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1441 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1442 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1443 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1445 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1447 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1448 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1449 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1450 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1452 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1453 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1454 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1455 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1456 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1458 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1460 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1463 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1464 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1466 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1467 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1468 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1469 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1470 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1471 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1472 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1473 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1474 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1476 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1478 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1480 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1483 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1484 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1485 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1486 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1487 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1488 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1489 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1490 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1491 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1492 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1493 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1494 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1495 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1496 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1497 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1498 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1499 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1500 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1501 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1502 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1503 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1505 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1506 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1508 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1510 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1513 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1514 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1515 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1516 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1517 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1518 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1519 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1520 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1521 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1522 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1523 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1524 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1525 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1526 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1527 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1528 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1529 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1530 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1531 list closes: Bug#53756
1532 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1533 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1534 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1535 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1536 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1537 policy closes: Bug#53760
1538 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1539 policy closes: Bug#53761
1540 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1541 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1542 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1543 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1544 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1545 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1546 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1547 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1548 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1549 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1550 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1552 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1553 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1554 to install with older fileutils.
1555 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1556 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1557 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1558 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1560 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1561 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1563 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1565 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1568 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1570 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1572 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1575 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1577 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1580 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1583 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1585 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1587 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1589 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1592 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1594 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1596 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1599 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1600 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1601 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1602 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1603 directoried (closes: #41547)
1604 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1605 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1606 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1607 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1608 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1609 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1610 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1611 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1612 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1613 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1614 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1616 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1617 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1618 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1619 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1620 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1621 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1622 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1624 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1625 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1626 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1627 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1629 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1631 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1633 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1634 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1636 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1638 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1641 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1643 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1645 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1648 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1650 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1651 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1652 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1653 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1654 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1655 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1656 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1657 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1658 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1659 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1660 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1661 this closes: Bug#38612
1662 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1663 before. closes: Bug#40864
1665 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1667 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1670 officially uploaded.
1671 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1673 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1674 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1675 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1677 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1678 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1679 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1680 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1681 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1682 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1684 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1685 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1686 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1688 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1690 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1691 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1692 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1693 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1694 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1696 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1698 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1701 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1702 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1703 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1704 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1705 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1706 there). closes: Bug#34233
1707 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1708 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1709 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1710 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1711 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1713 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1715 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1718 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1719 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1720 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1723 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1724 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1725 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1726 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1727 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1730 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1731 number. closes: BUG#25911
1733 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1734 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1735 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1736 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1737 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1738 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1740 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1741 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1742 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1745 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1746 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1747 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1749 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1750 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1751 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1752 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1754 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1755 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1756 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1758 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1760 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1761 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1762 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1763 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1764 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1765 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1766 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1767 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1770 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1772 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1773 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1776 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1778 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1782 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1784 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1787 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1788 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1789 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1790 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1791 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1792 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1793 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1795 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1796 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1798 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1800 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1802 * non-maintainer release
1803 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1804 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1806 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1807 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1808 * no content changes
1809 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1811 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1813 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1817 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1819 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1823 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1824 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1825 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1827 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1828 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1830 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1831 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1832 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1833 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1835 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1836 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1837 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1838 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1839 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1840 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1841 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1843 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1844 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1845 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1848 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1849 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1850 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1852 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1853 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1854 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1856 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1857 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1859 * New version numbering scheme:
1861 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1862 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1863 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1866 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1867 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1868 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1869 differ between the manuals.
1871 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1872 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1873 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1874 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1876 * Packaging changes:
1878 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1879 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1881 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1883 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1885 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1889 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1890 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1891 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1893 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1894 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1897 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1898 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1899 file extension as the referenced file
1901 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1902 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1904 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1905 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1906 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1907 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1910 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1911 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1912 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1914 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1915 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1916 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1917 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1920 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1921 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1924 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1925 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1926 reasonable default configuration
1928 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1929 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1930 by all news servers and clients
1932 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1933 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1934 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1935 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1936 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1938 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1939 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1942 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1944 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1945 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1947 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1950 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1951 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1953 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1954 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1956 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1958 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1960 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1963 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1964 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1965 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1967 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1969 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1970 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1971 * Don't use debstd anymore
1973 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1975 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1978 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1979 contrib/non-free policy
1980 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1981 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1982 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1983 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1984 - new section about `Daemons'
1985 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1986 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1987 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1988 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1989 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1990 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1991 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1992 * SGML source code included in package
1993 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1995 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1997 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2000 - completely reworked structure
2001 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2002 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2003 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2004 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2005 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2006 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2007 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2008 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2009 - mention "orphaned packages"
2010 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2011 distributions' policy
2012 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2013 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2014 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2015 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2016 - added section about arch spec strings
2017 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2018 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2019 - added section about "menus"
2020 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2021 the new documentation policy soon
2022 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2023 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2025 - added section about editors and pagers
2026 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2027 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2028 - added section about device files
2029 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2030 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2031 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2033 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2034 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2035 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2036 - Added new section about obsolete names
2037 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2038 * Fixed package's description
2040 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2042 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2046 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2048 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2051 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2052 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2053 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2055 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2057 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2060 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2061 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2063 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2064 and upload it "byhand" too.
2066 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2068 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2072 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2073 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2074 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2075 functionality must not have the same name.
2076 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2077 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2078 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2079 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2080 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2081 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2082 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2084 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2085 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2086 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2087 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2088 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2089 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2090 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2091 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2094 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2096 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2098 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2100 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2101 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2102 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2103 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2104 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2107 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2109 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2111 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2113 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2114 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2115 description of deb file format.
2116 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2117 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2119 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2121 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2122 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2124 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2126 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2128 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2129 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2130 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2131 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2132 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2133 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2134 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2135 packages in section on Procedure
2136 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2137 a package maintainer
2138 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2139 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2140 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2142 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2143 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2144 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2145 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2146 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2147 on various shlib files
2148 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2149 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2150 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2152 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2154 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2156 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2157 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2158 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2160 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2161 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2162 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2163 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2164 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2166 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2168 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2170 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2172 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2174 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2175 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2176 compatibility go in contrib.
2178 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2179 instructions in policy manual.
2180 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2183 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2185 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2187 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2188 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2189 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2190 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2192 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2193 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2196 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2198 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2200 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2201 * More detail about changelog format names.
2203 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2204 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2208 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2210 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2212 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2214 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2216 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2218 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2220 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2222 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2223 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2224 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2226 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2228 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2230 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2232 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2234 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2238 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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