1 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
5 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
6 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
10 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
13 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
16 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
17 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
18 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
19 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
20 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
21 running. closes: Bug#187250
22 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
23 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
24 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
25 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
26 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
27 user closes: Bug#176506
29 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
31 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
35 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
36 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
37 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
38 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
39 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
40 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
41 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
42 deb-building toolchain.
43 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
44 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
45 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
46 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
47 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
48 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
49 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
50 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
51 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
52 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
53 sections about changelog files.
55 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
56 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
57 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
58 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
59 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
60 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
62 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
63 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
64 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
65 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
66 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
67 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
68 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
69 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
70 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
71 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
72 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
73 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
74 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
75 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
76 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
77 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
78 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
79 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
82 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
84 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
89 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
90 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
91 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
92 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
93 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
94 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
96 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
97 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
98 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
99 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
100 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
101 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
102 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
104 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
105 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
106 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
107 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
109 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
111 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
115 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
116 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
117 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
118 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
119 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
121 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
122 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
123 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
124 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
126 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
127 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
128 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
129 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
130 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
131 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
132 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
133 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
134 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
136 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
137 script should start it, closes: #60979
138 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
139 "should", closes: #170019
140 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
141 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
142 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
143 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
144 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
145 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
146 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
147 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
150 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
152 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
156 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
157 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
158 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
159 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
160 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
161 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
162 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
163 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
165 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
166 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
167 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
168 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
169 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
170 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
171 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
172 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
173 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
175 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
176 file, closes: Bug#65764
178 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
180 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
183 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
184 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
185 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
186 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
187 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
188 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
189 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
190 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
191 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
192 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
193 details. closes: Bug#133030
194 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
195 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
198 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
200 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
203 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
204 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
205 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
206 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
207 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
208 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
209 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
210 not. closes: Bug#139820
211 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
212 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
213 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
214 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
215 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
216 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
217 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
218 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
219 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
220 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
222 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
224 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
225 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
226 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
227 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
228 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
229 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
230 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
231 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
232 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
233 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
234 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
235 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
236 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
237 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
238 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
239 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
240 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
241 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
242 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
243 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
245 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
246 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
247 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
248 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
249 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
250 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
251 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
253 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
254 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
255 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
256 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
257 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
258 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
259 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
260 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
261 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
263 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
265 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
268 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
269 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
270 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
271 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
272 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
273 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
274 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
275 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
276 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
277 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
278 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
279 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
280 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
281 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
282 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
283 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
284 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
285 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
286 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
287 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
288 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
289 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
291 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
293 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
296 medium, high, emergency.
297 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
298 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
299 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
300 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
301 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
304 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
305 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
306 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
308 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
309 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
310 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
311 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
312 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
313 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
314 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
317 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
319 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
322 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
323 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
324 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
326 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
327 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
328 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
329 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
330 debian/rules to do this
331 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
332 patches are incorporated upstream
333 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
334 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
335 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
336 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
337 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
338 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
340 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
341 system closes: Bug#91249
342 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
343 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
344 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
345 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
346 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
347 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
348 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
349 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
350 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
351 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
352 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
353 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
354 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
356 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
358 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
360 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
361 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
362 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
363 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
365 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
366 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
367 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
369 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
372 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
374 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
377 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
378 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
379 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
380 package for the time being
381 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
382 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
383 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
384 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
385 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
386 * Rename all .text files as .txt
387 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
388 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
389 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
390 Build-Depends arch syntax
391 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
393 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
394 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
396 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
397 from policy maintenance duties.
398 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
399 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
401 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
403 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
407 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
409 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
412 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
413 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
414 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
415 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
416 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
417 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
418 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
419 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
420 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
421 minor version number for this
422 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
423 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
424 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
425 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
426 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
427 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
428 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
429 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
430 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
432 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
434 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
436 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
437 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
438 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
439 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
440 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
442 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
444 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
445 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
446 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
447 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
448 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
449 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
450 xutils closes: Bug#82966
451 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
452 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
453 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
454 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
455 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
456 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
457 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
458 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
459 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
462 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
464 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
466 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
467 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
469 * Document the Enhances relationship
470 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
471 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
472 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
473 policy. closes: Bug#53496
474 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
475 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
477 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
479 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
480 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
481 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
482 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
484 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
485 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
486 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
487 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
488 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
490 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
492 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
495 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
496 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
498 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
499 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
500 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
501 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
502 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
503 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
504 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
505 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
506 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
508 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
510 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
512 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
514 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
515 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
516 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
517 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
518 policy. closes: Bug#64437
519 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
520 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
521 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
522 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
523 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
524 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
525 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
526 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
527 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
528 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
529 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
530 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
531 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
532 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
533 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
534 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
535 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
537 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
538 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
540 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
542 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
545 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
546 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
547 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
548 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
549 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
550 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
551 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
552 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
553 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
554 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
555 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
556 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
557 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
558 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
559 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
560 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
561 alternative closes: Bug#53755
562 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
563 list closes: Bug#53756
564 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
565 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
566 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
567 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
568 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
569 policy closes: Bug#53760
570 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
571 policy closes: Bug#53761
572 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
573 that use X closes: Bug#53762
574 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
575 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
576 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
577 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
578 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
579 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
580 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
581 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
582 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
584 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
585 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
586 to install with older fileutils.
587 * Installed FHS version 2.1
588 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
589 * Added FHS details to copyright file
590 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
592 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
593 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
595 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
597 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
600 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
602 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
604 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
607 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
609 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
612 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
615 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
617 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
619 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
621 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
624 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
626 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
628 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
631 #45561, #42447, #48570)
632 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
633 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
634 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
635 directoried (closes: #41547)
636 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
637 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
638 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
639 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
640 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
641 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
642 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
643 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
644 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
645 package criteria (closes: #45318)
646 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
648 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
649 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
650 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
651 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
652 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
653 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
654 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
656 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
657 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
658 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
659 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
661 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
663 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
665 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
666 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
668 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
670 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
673 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
675 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
677 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
679 * A few typos and omissions corrected
680 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
682 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
683 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
684 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
685 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
686 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
687 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
688 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
689 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
690 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
691 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
692 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
693 this closes: Bug#38612
694 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
695 before. closes: Bug#40864
697 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
699 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
701 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
703 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
705 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
706 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
707 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
709 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
710 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
711 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
712 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
713 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
714 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
716 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
717 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
718 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
720 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
722 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
723 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
724 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
725 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
726 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
728 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
730 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
733 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
734 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
735 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
736 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
737 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
738 there). closes: Bug#34233
739 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
740 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
741 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
742 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
743 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
745 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
747 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
749 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
750 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
751 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
752 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
755 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
756 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
757 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
758 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
759 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
762 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
763 number. closes: BUG#25911
765 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
766 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
767 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
768 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
769 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
770 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
772 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
773 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
774 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
777 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
778 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
779 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
781 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
782 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
783 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
784 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
786 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
787 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
788 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
790 * Make the package optional, not extra.
792 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
793 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
794 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
795 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
796 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
797 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
798 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
799 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
802 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
804 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
805 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
808 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
810 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
812 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
814 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
816 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
818 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
819 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
820 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
821 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
822 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
823 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
824 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
825 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
827 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
828 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
830 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
832 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
834 * non-maintainer release
835 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
836 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
838 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
839 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
841 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
843 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
845 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
849 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
851 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
853 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
855 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
856 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
857 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
859 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
860 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
862 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
863 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
864 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
865 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
867 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
868 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
869 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
870 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
871 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
872 and restart options and to comply with the console message
873 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
875 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
876 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
877 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
880 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
881 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
882 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
884 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
885 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
886 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
888 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
889 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
891 * New version numbering scheme:
893 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
894 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
895 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
898 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
899 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
900 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
901 differ between the manuals.
903 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
904 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
905 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
906 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
910 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
911 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
913 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
915 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
917 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
921 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
922 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
923 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
925 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
926 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
929 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
930 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
931 file extension as the referenced file
933 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
934 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
936 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
937 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
938 start, stop, restart, force-reload
939 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
942 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
943 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
944 be installed into /etc/cron.d
946 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
947 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
948 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
949 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
952 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
953 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
956 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
957 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
958 reasonable default configuration
960 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
961 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
962 by all news servers and clients
964 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
965 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
966 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
967 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
968 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
970 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
971 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
974 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
976 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
977 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
979 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
982 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
983 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
985 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
986 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
988 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
990 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
992 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
995 - X library package is now called xlib6g
996 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
997 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
999 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1001 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1002 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1003 * Don't use debstd anymore
1005 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1007 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1010 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1011 contrib/non-free policy
1012 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1013 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1014 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1015 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1016 - new section about `Daemons'
1017 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1018 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1019 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1020 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1021 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1022 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1023 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1024 * SGML source code included in package
1025 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1027 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1029 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1032 - completely reworked structure
1033 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1034 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1035 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1036 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1037 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1038 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1039 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1040 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1041 - mention "orphaned packages"
1042 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1043 distributions' policy
1044 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1045 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1046 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1047 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1048 - added section about arch spec strings
1049 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1050 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1051 - added section about "menus"
1052 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1053 the new documentation policy soon
1054 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1055 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1057 - added section about editors and pagers
1058 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1059 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1060 - added section about device files
1061 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1062 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1063 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1065 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1066 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1067 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1068 - Added new section about obsolete names
1069 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1070 * Fixed package's description
1072 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1074 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1078 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1080 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1083 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1084 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1085 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1087 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1089 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1092 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1093 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1095 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1096 and upload it "byhand" too.
1098 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1100 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1104 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1105 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1106 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1107 functionality must not have the same name.
1108 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1109 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1110 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1111 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1112 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1113 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1114 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1116 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1117 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1118 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1119 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1120 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1121 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1122 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1123 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1126 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1128 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1130 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1132 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1133 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1134 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1135 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1136 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1139 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1141 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1143 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1145 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1146 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1147 description of deb file format.
1148 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1149 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1151 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1153 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1154 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1156 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1158 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1160 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1161 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1162 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1163 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1164 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1165 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1166 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1167 packages in section on Procedure
1168 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1169 a package maintainer
1170 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1171 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1172 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1174 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1175 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1176 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1177 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1178 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1179 on various shlib files
1180 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1181 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1182 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1184 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1186 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1188 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1189 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1190 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1192 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1193 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1194 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1195 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1196 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1198 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1200 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1202 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1204 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1206 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1207 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1208 compatibility go in contrib.
1210 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1211 instructions in policy manual.
1212 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1215 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1217 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1219 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1220 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1221 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1222 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1224 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1225 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1228 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1230 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1232 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1233 * More detail about changelog format names.
1235 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1236 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1240 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1242 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1244 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1246 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1248 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1250 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1252 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1254 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1255 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1256 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1258 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1260 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1262 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1264 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1266 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1270 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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