1 debian-policy (3.8.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
5 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
7 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
8 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
11 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
14 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
15 Wording: Steve Langasek.
16 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
17 Seconded: Julien Cristau
21 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
22 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
23 Seconded: Russ Allbery
24 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
27 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
28 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
29 Seconded: Russ Allbery
32 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:11:26 -0500
34 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
37 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
41 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
42 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
46 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
47 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
51 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
52 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
55 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
56 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
58 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
59 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
64 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
65 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
69 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
70 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
74 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
75 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
79 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
80 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
84 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
85 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
89 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
90 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
91 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
92 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
93 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
94 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
95 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
96 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
97 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
98 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
99 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
100 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
101 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
102 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
103 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
105 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
106 Source field descriptions.
107 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
108 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
109 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
110 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
111 description says otherwise.
113 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
115 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
119 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
122 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
123 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
126 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
130 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
131 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
135 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
136 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
140 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
141 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
142 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
143 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
147 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
148 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
149 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
150 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
151 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
153 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
154 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
158 * Add myself to Uploaders.
161 * Add myself to Uploaders.
162 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
164 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
165 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
166 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
168 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
170 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
173 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
178 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
180 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
182 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
183 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
187 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
188 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
190 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
192 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
197 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
198 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
202 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
203 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
205 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
207 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
208 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
210 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
212 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
213 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
214 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
217 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
218 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
222 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
223 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
226 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
228 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
229 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
230 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
231 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
232 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
233 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
234 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
235 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
236 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
237 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
238 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
239 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
240 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
241 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
242 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
243 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
244 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
245 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
246 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
247 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
248 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
249 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
250 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
251 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
252 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
253 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
254 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
255 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
256 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
257 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
259 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
260 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
261 links was completed long ago.
262 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
264 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
266 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
269 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
271 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
273 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
276 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
277 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
278 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
279 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
280 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
281 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
282 Millan (Closes: #209008).
283 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
284 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
286 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
288 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
290 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
291 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
292 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
293 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
294 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
295 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
296 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
298 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
299 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
300 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
301 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
303 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
304 Küster (Closes: #403391).
305 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
306 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
307 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
308 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
309 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
310 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
314 Closes: #186700, #458910
315 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
316 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
319 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
320 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
321 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
322 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
323 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
324 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
325 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
326 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
328 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
329 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
331 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
332 * Add an md5sums control file.
333 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
334 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
335 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
336 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
337 currently part of policy.
338 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
339 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
340 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
343 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
345 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
348 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
349 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
350 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
351 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
352 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
353 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
354 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
355 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
356 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
357 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
358 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
359 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
360 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
361 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
362 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
364 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
366 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
367 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
368 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
370 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
371 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
372 list?" (Closes: #412634).
373 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
374 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
375 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
376 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
377 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
378 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
379 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
380 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
381 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
382 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
383 debconf specification.
384 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
385 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
387 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
389 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
392 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
393 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
394 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
395 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
397 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
399 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
400 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
401 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
402 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
403 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
405 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
406 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
407 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
408 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
409 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
410 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
411 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
412 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
413 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
414 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
415 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
416 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
417 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
418 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
419 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
420 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
422 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
424 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
425 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
426 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
427 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
428 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
429 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
430 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
431 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
433 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
435 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
438 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
439 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
440 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
441 Polo (Closes: #372497).
442 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
443 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
445 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
446 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
447 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
448 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
449 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
450 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
451 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
452 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
453 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
454 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
456 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
457 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
458 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
459 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
460 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
461 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
463 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
465 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
468 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
469 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
470 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
472 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
473 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
475 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
477 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
480 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
481 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
482 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
483 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
484 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
485 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
486 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
487 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
488 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
490 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
491 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
492 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
493 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
494 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
495 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
496 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
497 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
498 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
499 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
500 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
503 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
505 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
508 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
509 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
510 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
511 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
512 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
513 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
514 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
515 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
516 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
517 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
518 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
519 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
520 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
521 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
522 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
523 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
524 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
525 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
526 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
527 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
528 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
529 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
530 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
531 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
532 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
533 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
534 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
536 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
537 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
538 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
539 Hess (Closes: #362247).
540 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
541 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
542 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
543 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
544 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
545 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
546 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
547 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
548 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
549 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
550 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
551 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
553 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
554 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
556 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
557 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
558 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
559 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
560 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
561 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
562 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
563 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
564 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
565 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
566 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
568 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
570 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
574 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
575 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
576 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
577 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
578 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
579 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
580 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
581 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
582 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
583 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
584 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
585 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
587 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
588 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
589 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
590 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
591 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
592 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
593 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
594 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
595 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
596 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
597 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
598 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
599 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
600 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
601 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
602 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
603 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
604 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
605 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
608 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
610 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
613 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
614 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
615 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
617 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
618 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
619 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
620 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
622 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
624 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
628 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
629 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
630 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
631 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
632 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
633 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
634 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
635 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
636 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
638 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
639 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
640 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
642 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
643 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
644 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
645 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
646 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
647 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
648 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
650 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
651 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
652 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
653 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
655 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
656 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
657 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
658 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
659 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
660 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
661 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
662 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
664 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
665 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
666 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
667 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
668 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
669 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
670 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
671 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
672 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
673 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
674 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
675 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
676 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
677 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
678 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
679 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
680 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
682 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
684 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
687 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
688 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
689 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
690 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
691 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
692 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
693 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
694 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
695 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
697 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
698 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
699 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
700 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
701 this section. closes: Bug#248618
702 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
703 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
704 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
705 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
706 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
707 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
708 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
709 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
710 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
711 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
712 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
713 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
715 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
716 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
717 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
720 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
721 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
722 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
724 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
725 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
726 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
727 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
728 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
729 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
731 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
732 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
734 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
735 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
736 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
737 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
738 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
739 Closes: #185943, #237049
741 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
743 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
749 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
750 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
751 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
752 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
753 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
754 running. closes: Bug#187250
755 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
756 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
757 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
758 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
759 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
760 user closes: Bug#176506
762 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
764 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
768 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
769 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
770 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
771 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
772 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
773 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
774 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
775 deb-building toolchain.
776 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
777 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
778 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
779 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
780 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
781 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
782 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
783 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
784 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
785 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
786 sections about changelog files.
788 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
789 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
790 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
791 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
792 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
793 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
795 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
796 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
797 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
798 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
799 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
800 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
801 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
802 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
803 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
804 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
805 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
806 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
807 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
808 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
809 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
810 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
811 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
812 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
813 for the restructuring
815 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
817 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
822 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
823 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
824 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
825 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
826 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
827 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
829 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
830 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
831 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
832 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
833 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
834 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
835 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
837 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
838 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
839 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
840 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
842 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
844 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
848 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
849 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
850 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
851 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
852 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
854 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
855 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
856 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
857 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
859 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
860 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
861 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
862 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
863 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
864 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
865 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
866 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
867 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
869 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
870 script should start it, closes: #60979
871 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
872 "should", closes: #170019
873 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
874 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
875 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
876 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
877 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
878 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
879 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
880 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
883 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
885 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
889 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
890 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
891 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
892 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
893 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
894 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
895 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
896 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
898 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
899 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
900 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
901 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
902 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
903 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
904 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
905 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
906 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
908 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
909 file, closes: Bug#65764
911 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
913 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
916 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
917 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
918 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
919 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
920 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
921 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
922 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
923 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
924 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
925 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
926 details. closes: Bug#133030
927 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
928 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
931 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
933 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
936 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
937 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
938 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
939 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
940 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
941 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
942 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
943 not. closes: Bug#139820
944 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
945 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
946 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
947 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
948 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
949 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
950 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
951 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
952 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
953 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
955 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
957 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
958 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
959 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
960 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
961 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
962 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
963 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
964 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
965 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
966 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
967 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
968 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
969 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
970 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
971 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
972 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
973 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
974 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
975 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
976 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
978 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
979 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
980 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
981 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
982 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
983 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
984 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
986 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
987 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
988 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
989 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
990 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
991 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
992 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
993 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
994 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
996 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
998 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1001 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1002 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1003 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1004 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1005 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1006 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1007 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1008 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1009 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1010 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1011 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1012 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1013 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1014 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1015 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1016 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1017 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1018 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1019 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1020 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1021 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1022 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1024 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1026 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1029 medium, high, emergency.
1030 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1031 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1032 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1033 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1034 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1037 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1038 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1039 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1041 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1042 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1043 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1044 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1045 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1046 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1047 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1050 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1052 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1055 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1056 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1057 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1059 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1060 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1061 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1062 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1063 debian/rules to do this
1064 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1065 patches are incorporated upstream
1066 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1067 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1068 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1069 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1070 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1071 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1073 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1074 system closes: Bug#91249
1075 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1076 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1077 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1078 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1079 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1080 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1081 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1082 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1083 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1084 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1085 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1086 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1087 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1089 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1091 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1094 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1095 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1096 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1098 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1099 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1100 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1102 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1105 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1107 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1110 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1111 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1112 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1113 package for the time being
1114 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1115 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1116 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1117 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1118 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1119 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1120 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1121 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1122 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1123 Build-Depends arch syntax
1124 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1126 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1127 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1129 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1130 from policy maintenance duties.
1131 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1132 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1134 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1136 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1140 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1142 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1145 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1146 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1147 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1148 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1149 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1150 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1151 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1152 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1153 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1154 minor version number for this
1155 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1156 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1157 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1158 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1159 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1160 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1161 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1162 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1163 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1165 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1167 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1170 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1171 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1172 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1173 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1175 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1177 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1178 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1179 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1180 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1181 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1182 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1183 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1184 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1185 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1186 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1187 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1188 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1189 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1190 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1191 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1192 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1195 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1197 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1200 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1202 * Document the Enhances relationship
1203 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1204 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1205 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1206 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1207 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1208 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1210 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1212 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1213 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1214 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1215 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1217 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1218 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1219 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1220 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1221 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1223 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1225 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1228 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1229 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1231 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1232 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1233 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1234 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1235 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1236 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1237 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1238 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1239 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1241 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1243 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1245 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1248 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1249 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1250 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1251 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1252 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1253 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1254 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1255 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1256 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1257 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1258 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1259 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1260 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1261 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1262 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1263 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1264 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1265 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1266 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1267 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1268 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1270 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1271 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1273 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1275 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1278 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1279 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1280 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1281 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1282 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1283 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1284 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1285 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1286 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1287 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1288 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1289 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1290 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1291 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1292 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1293 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1294 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1295 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1296 list closes: Bug#53756
1297 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1298 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1299 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1300 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1301 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1302 policy closes: Bug#53760
1303 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1304 policy closes: Bug#53761
1305 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1306 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1307 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1308 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1309 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1310 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1311 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1312 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1313 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1314 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1315 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1317 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1318 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1319 to install with older fileutils.
1320 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1321 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1322 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1323 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1325 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1326 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1328 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1330 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1333 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1335 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1337 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1340 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1342 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1345 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1348 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1350 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1352 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1354 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1357 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1359 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1361 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1364 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1365 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1366 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1367 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1368 directoried (closes: #41547)
1369 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1370 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1371 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1372 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1373 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1374 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1375 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1376 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1377 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1378 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1379 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1381 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1382 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1383 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1384 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1385 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1386 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1387 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1389 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1390 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1391 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1392 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1394 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1396 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1398 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1399 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1401 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1403 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1406 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1408 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1410 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1413 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1415 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1416 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1417 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1418 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1419 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1420 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1421 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1422 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1423 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1424 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1425 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1426 this closes: Bug#38612
1427 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1428 before. closes: Bug#40864
1430 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1432 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1435 officially uploaded.
1436 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1438 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1439 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1440 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1442 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1443 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1444 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1445 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1446 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1447 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1449 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1450 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1451 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1453 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1455 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1456 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1457 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1458 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1459 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1461 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1463 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1466 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1467 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1468 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1469 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1470 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1471 there). closes: Bug#34233
1472 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1473 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1474 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1475 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1476 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1478 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1480 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1483 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1484 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1485 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1488 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1489 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1490 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1491 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1492 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1495 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1496 number. closes: BUG#25911
1498 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1499 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1500 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1501 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1502 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1503 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1505 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1506 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1507 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1510 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1511 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1512 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1514 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1515 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1516 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1517 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1519 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1520 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1521 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1523 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1525 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1526 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1527 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1528 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1529 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1530 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1531 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1532 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1535 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1537 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1538 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1541 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1543 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1547 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1549 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1552 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1553 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1554 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1555 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1556 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1557 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1558 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1560 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1561 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1563 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1565 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1567 * non-maintainer release
1568 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1569 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1571 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1572 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1573 * no content changes
1574 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1576 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1578 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1582 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1584 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1588 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1589 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1590 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1592 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1593 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1595 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1596 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1597 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1598 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1600 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1601 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1602 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1603 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1604 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1605 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1606 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1608 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1609 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1610 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1613 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1614 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1615 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1617 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1618 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1619 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1621 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1622 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1624 * New version numbering scheme:
1626 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1627 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1628 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1631 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1632 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1633 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1634 differ between the manuals.
1636 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1637 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1638 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1639 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1641 * Packaging changes:
1643 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1644 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1646 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1648 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1650 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1654 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1655 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1656 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1658 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1659 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1662 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1663 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1664 file extension as the referenced file
1666 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1667 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1669 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1670 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1671 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1672 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1675 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1676 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1677 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1679 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1680 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1681 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1682 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1685 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1686 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1689 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1690 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1691 reasonable default configuration
1693 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1694 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1695 by all news servers and clients
1697 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1698 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1699 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1700 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1701 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1703 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1704 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1707 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1709 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1710 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1712 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1715 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1716 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1718 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1719 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1721 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1723 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1725 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1728 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1729 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1730 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1732 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1734 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1735 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1736 * Don't use debstd anymore
1738 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1740 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1743 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1744 contrib/non-free policy
1745 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1746 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1747 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1748 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1749 - new section about `Daemons'
1750 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1751 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1752 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1753 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1754 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1755 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1756 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1757 * SGML source code included in package
1758 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1760 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1762 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1765 - completely reworked structure
1766 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1767 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1768 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1769 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1770 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1771 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1772 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1773 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1774 - mention "orphaned packages"
1775 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1776 distributions' policy
1777 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1778 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1779 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1780 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1781 - added section about arch spec strings
1782 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1783 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1784 - added section about "menus"
1785 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1786 the new documentation policy soon
1787 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1788 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1790 - added section about editors and pagers
1791 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1792 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1793 - added section about device files
1794 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1795 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1796 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1798 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1799 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1800 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1801 - Added new section about obsolete names
1802 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1803 * Fixed package's description
1805 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1807 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1811 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1813 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1816 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1817 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1818 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1820 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1822 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1825 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1826 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1828 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1829 and upload it "byhand" too.
1831 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1833 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1837 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1838 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1839 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1840 functionality must not have the same name.
1841 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1842 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1843 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1844 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1845 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1846 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1847 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1849 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1850 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1851 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1852 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1853 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1854 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1855 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1856 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1859 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1861 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1863 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1865 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1866 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1867 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1868 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1869 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1872 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1874 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1876 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1878 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1879 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1880 description of deb file format.
1881 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1882 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1884 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1886 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1887 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1889 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1891 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1893 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1894 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1895 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1896 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1897 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1898 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1899 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1900 packages in section on Procedure
1901 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1902 a package maintainer
1903 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1904 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1905 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1907 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1908 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1909 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1910 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1911 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1912 on various shlib files
1913 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1914 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1915 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1917 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1919 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1921 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1922 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1923 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1925 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1926 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1927 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1928 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1929 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1931 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1933 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1935 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1937 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1939 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1940 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1941 compatibility go in contrib.
1943 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1944 instructions in policy manual.
1945 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1948 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1950 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1952 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1953 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1954 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1955 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1957 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1958 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1961 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1963 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1965 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1966 * More detail about changelog format names.
1968 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1969 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1973 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1975 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1977 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1979 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1981 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1983 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1985 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1987 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1988 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1989 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1991 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1993 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1995 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1997 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1999 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2003 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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