1 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
8 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
9 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
13 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
14 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
18 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
19 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
22 Seconded: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
23 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
24 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
26 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
27 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
32 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
33 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
35 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
37 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
38 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
42 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
43 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
47 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
48 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
52 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
53 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
54 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
55 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
56 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
57 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
58 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
59 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
60 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
61 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
62 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
63 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
64 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
65 Source field descriptions.
67 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:48 -0700
69 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
73 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
76 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
77 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
79 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
80 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
84 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
85 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
89 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
90 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
94 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
95 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
96 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
97 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
101 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
102 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
103 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
104 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
105 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
107 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
108 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
112 * Add myself to Uploaders.
115 * Add myself to Uploaders.
116 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
118 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
119 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
120 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
122 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
124 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
127 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
131 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
132 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
134 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
136 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
137 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
141 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
142 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
144 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
146 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
147 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
151 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
152 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
156 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
157 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
159 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
161 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
162 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
164 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
166 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
167 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
168 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
171 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
172 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
176 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
177 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
180 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
182 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
183 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
184 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
185 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
186 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
187 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
188 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
189 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
190 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
191 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
192 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
193 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
194 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
195 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
196 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
197 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
198 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
199 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
200 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
201 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
202 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
203 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
204 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
205 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
206 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
207 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
208 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
209 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
210 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
211 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
213 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
214 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
215 links was completed long ago.
216 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
218 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
220 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
223 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
225 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
227 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
230 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
231 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
232 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
233 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
234 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
235 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
236 Millan (Closes: #209008).
237 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
238 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
240 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
242 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
244 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
245 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
246 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
247 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
248 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
249 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
250 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
252 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
253 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
254 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
255 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
257 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
258 Küster (Closes: #403391).
259 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
260 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
261 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
262 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
263 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
264 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
268 Closes: #186700, #458910
269 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
270 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
273 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
274 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
275 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
276 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
277 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
278 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
279 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
280 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
282 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
283 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
285 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
286 * Add an md5sums control file.
287 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
288 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
289 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
290 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
291 currently part of policy.
292 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
293 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
294 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
297 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
299 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
302 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
303 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
304 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
305 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
306 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
307 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
308 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
309 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
310 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
311 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
312 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
313 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
314 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
315 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
316 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
318 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
320 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
321 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
322 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
324 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
325 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
326 list?" (Closes: #412634).
327 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
328 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
329 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
330 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
331 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
332 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
333 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
334 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
335 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
336 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
337 debconf specification.
338 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
339 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
341 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
343 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
346 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
347 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
348 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
349 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
351 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
353 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
354 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
355 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
356 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
357 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
359 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
360 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
361 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
362 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
363 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
364 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
365 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
366 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
367 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
368 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
369 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
370 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
371 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
372 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
373 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
374 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
376 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
378 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
379 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
380 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
381 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
382 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
383 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
384 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
385 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
387 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
389 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
392 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
393 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
394 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
395 Polo (Closes: #372497).
396 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
397 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
399 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
400 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
401 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
402 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
403 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
404 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
405 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
406 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
407 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
408 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
410 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
411 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
412 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
413 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
414 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
415 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
417 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
419 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
422 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
423 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
424 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
426 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
427 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
429 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
431 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
434 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
435 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
436 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
437 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
438 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
439 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
440 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
441 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
442 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
444 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
445 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
446 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
447 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
448 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
449 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
450 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
451 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
452 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
453 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
454 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
457 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
459 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
462 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
463 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
464 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
465 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
466 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
467 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
468 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
469 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
470 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
471 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
472 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
473 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
474 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
475 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
476 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
477 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
478 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
479 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
480 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
481 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
482 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
483 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
484 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
485 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
486 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
487 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
488 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
490 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
491 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
492 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
493 Hess (Closes: #362247).
494 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
495 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
496 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
497 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
498 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
499 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
500 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
501 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
502 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
503 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
504 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
505 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
507 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
508 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
510 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
511 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
512 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
513 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
514 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
515 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
516 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
517 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
518 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
519 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
520 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
522 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
524 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
528 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
529 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
530 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
531 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
532 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
533 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
534 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
535 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
536 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
537 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
538 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
539 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
541 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
542 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
543 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
544 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
545 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
546 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
547 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
548 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
549 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
550 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
551 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
552 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
553 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
554 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
555 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
556 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
557 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
558 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
559 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
562 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
564 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
567 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
568 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
569 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
571 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
572 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
573 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
574 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
576 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
578 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
582 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
583 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
584 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
585 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
586 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
587 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
588 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
589 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
590 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
592 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
593 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
594 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
596 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
597 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
598 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
599 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
600 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
601 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
602 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
604 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
605 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
606 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
607 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
609 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
610 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
611 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
612 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
613 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
614 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
615 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
616 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
618 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
619 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
620 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
621 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
622 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
623 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
624 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
625 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
626 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
627 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
628 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
629 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
630 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
631 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
632 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
633 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
634 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
636 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
638 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
641 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
642 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
643 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
644 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
645 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
646 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
647 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
648 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
649 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
651 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
652 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
653 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
654 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
655 this section. closes: Bug#248618
656 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
657 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
658 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
659 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
660 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
661 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
662 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
663 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
664 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
665 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
666 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
667 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
669 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
670 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
671 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
674 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
675 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
676 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
678 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
679 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
680 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
681 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
682 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
683 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
685 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
686 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
688 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
689 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
690 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
691 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
692 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
693 Closes: #185943, #237049
695 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
697 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
703 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
704 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
705 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
706 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
707 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
708 running. closes: Bug#187250
709 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
710 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
711 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
712 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
713 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
714 user closes: Bug#176506
716 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
718 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
722 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
723 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
724 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
725 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
726 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
727 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
728 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
729 deb-building toolchain.
730 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
731 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
732 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
733 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
734 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
735 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
736 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
737 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
738 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
739 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
740 sections about changelog files.
742 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
743 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
744 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
745 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
746 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
747 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
749 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
750 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
751 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
752 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
753 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
754 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
755 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
756 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
757 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
758 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
759 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
760 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
761 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
762 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
763 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
764 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
765 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
766 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
767 for the restructuring
769 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
771 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
776 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
777 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
778 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
779 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
780 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
781 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
783 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
784 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
785 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
786 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
787 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
788 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
789 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
791 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
792 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
793 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
794 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
796 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
798 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
802 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
803 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
804 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
805 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
806 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
808 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
809 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
810 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
811 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
813 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
814 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
815 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
816 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
817 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
818 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
819 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
820 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
821 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
823 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
824 script should start it, closes: #60979
825 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
826 "should", closes: #170019
827 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
828 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
829 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
830 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
831 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
832 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
833 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
834 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
837 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
839 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
843 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
844 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
845 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
846 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
847 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
848 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
849 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
850 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
852 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
853 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
854 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
855 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
856 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
857 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
858 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
859 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
860 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
862 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
863 file, closes: Bug#65764
865 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
867 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
870 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
871 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
872 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
873 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
874 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
875 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
876 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
877 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
878 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
879 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
880 details. closes: Bug#133030
881 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
882 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
885 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
887 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
890 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
891 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
892 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
893 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
894 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
895 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
896 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
897 not. closes: Bug#139820
898 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
899 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
900 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
901 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
902 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
903 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
904 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
905 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
906 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
907 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
909 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
911 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
912 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
913 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
914 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
915 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
916 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
917 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
918 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
919 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
920 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
921 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
922 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
923 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
924 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
925 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
926 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
927 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
928 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
929 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
930 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
932 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
933 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
934 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
935 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
936 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
937 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
938 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
940 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
941 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
942 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
943 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
944 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
945 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
946 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
947 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
948 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
950 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
952 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
954 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
955 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
956 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
957 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
958 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
959 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
960 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
961 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
962 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
963 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
964 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
965 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
966 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
967 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
968 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
969 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
970 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
971 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
972 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
973 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
974 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
975 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
976 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
978 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
980 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
983 medium, high, emergency.
984 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
985 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
986 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
987 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
988 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
991 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
992 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
993 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
995 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
996 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
997 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
998 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
999 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1000 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1001 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1004 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1006 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1009 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1010 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1011 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1013 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1014 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1015 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1016 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1017 debian/rules to do this
1018 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1019 patches are incorporated upstream
1020 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1021 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1022 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1023 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1024 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1025 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1027 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1028 system closes: Bug#91249
1029 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1030 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1031 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1032 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1033 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1034 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1035 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1036 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1037 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1038 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1039 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1040 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1041 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1043 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1045 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1048 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1049 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1050 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1052 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1053 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1054 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1056 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1059 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1061 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1064 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1065 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1066 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1067 package for the time being
1068 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1069 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1070 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1071 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1072 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1073 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1074 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1075 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1076 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1077 Build-Depends arch syntax
1078 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1080 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1081 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1083 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1084 from policy maintenance duties.
1085 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1086 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1088 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1090 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1094 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1096 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1099 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1100 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1101 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1102 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1103 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1104 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1105 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1106 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1107 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1108 minor version number for this
1109 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1110 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1111 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1112 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1113 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1114 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1115 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1116 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1117 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1119 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1121 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1124 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1125 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1126 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1127 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1129 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1131 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1132 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1133 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1134 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1135 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1136 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1137 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1138 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1139 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1140 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1141 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1142 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1143 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1144 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1145 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1146 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1149 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1151 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1154 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1156 * Document the Enhances relationship
1157 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1158 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1159 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1160 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1161 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1162 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1164 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1166 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1167 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1168 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1169 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1171 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1172 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1173 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1174 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1175 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1177 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1179 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1182 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1183 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1185 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1186 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1187 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1188 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1189 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1190 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1191 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1192 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1193 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1195 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1197 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1199 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1202 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1203 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1204 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1205 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1206 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1207 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1208 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1209 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1210 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1211 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1212 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1213 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1214 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1215 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1216 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1217 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1218 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1219 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1220 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1221 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1222 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1224 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1225 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1227 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1229 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1232 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1233 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1234 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1235 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1236 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1237 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1238 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1239 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1240 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1241 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1242 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1243 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1244 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1245 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1246 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1247 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1248 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1249 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1250 list closes: Bug#53756
1251 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1252 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1253 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1254 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1255 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1256 policy closes: Bug#53760
1257 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1258 policy closes: Bug#53761
1259 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1260 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1261 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1262 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1263 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1264 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1265 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1266 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1267 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1268 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1269 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1271 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1272 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1273 to install with older fileutils.
1274 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1275 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1276 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1277 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1279 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1280 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1282 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1284 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1287 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1289 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1291 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1294 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1296 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1299 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1302 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1304 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1306 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1308 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1311 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1313 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1315 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1318 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1319 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1320 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1321 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1322 directoried (closes: #41547)
1323 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1324 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1325 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1326 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1327 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1328 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1329 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1330 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1331 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1332 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1333 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1335 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1336 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1337 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1338 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1339 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1340 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1341 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1343 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1344 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1345 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1346 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1348 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1350 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1352 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1353 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1355 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1357 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1360 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1362 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1364 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1367 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1369 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1370 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1371 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1372 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1373 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1374 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1375 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1376 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1377 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1378 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1379 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1380 this closes: Bug#38612
1381 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1382 before. closes: Bug#40864
1384 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1386 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1389 officially uploaded.
1390 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1392 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1393 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1394 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1396 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1397 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1398 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1399 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1400 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1401 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1403 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1404 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1405 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1407 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1409 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1410 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1411 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1412 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1413 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1415 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1417 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1420 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1421 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1422 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1423 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1424 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1425 there). closes: Bug#34233
1426 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1427 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1428 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1429 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1430 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1432 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1434 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1437 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1438 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1439 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1442 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1443 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1444 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1445 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1446 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1449 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1450 number. closes: BUG#25911
1452 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1453 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1454 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1455 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1456 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1457 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1459 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1460 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1461 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1464 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1465 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1466 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1468 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1469 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1470 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1471 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1473 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1474 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1475 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1477 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1479 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1480 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1481 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1482 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1483 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1484 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1485 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1486 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1489 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1491 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1492 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1495 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1497 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1501 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1503 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1506 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1507 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1508 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1509 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1510 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1511 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1512 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1514 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1515 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1517 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1519 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1521 * non-maintainer release
1522 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1523 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1525 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1526 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1527 * no content changes
1528 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1530 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1532 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1536 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1538 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1542 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1543 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1544 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1546 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1547 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1549 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1550 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1551 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1552 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1554 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1555 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1556 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1557 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1558 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1559 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1560 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1562 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1563 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1564 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1567 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1568 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1569 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1571 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1572 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1573 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1575 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1576 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1578 * New version numbering scheme:
1580 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1581 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1582 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1585 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1586 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1587 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1588 differ between the manuals.
1590 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1591 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1592 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1593 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1595 * Packaging changes:
1597 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1598 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1600 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1602 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1604 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1608 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1609 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1610 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1612 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1613 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1616 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1617 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1618 file extension as the referenced file
1620 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1621 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1623 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1624 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1625 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1626 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1629 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1630 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1631 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1633 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1634 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1635 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1636 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1639 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1640 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1643 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1644 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1645 reasonable default configuration
1647 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1648 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1649 by all news servers and clients
1651 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1652 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1653 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1654 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1655 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1657 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1658 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1661 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1663 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1664 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1666 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1669 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1670 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1672 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1673 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1675 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1677 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1679 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1682 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1683 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1684 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1686 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1688 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1689 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1690 * Don't use debstd anymore
1692 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1694 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1697 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1698 contrib/non-free policy
1699 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1700 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1701 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1702 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1703 - new section about `Daemons'
1704 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1705 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1706 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1707 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1708 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1709 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1710 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1711 * SGML source code included in package
1712 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1714 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1716 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1719 - completely reworked structure
1720 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1721 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1722 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1723 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1724 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1725 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1726 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1727 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1728 - mention "orphaned packages"
1729 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1730 distributions' policy
1731 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1732 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1733 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1734 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1735 - added section about arch spec strings
1736 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1737 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1738 - added section about "menus"
1739 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1740 the new documentation policy soon
1741 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1742 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1744 - added section about editors and pagers
1745 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1746 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1747 - added section about device files
1748 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1749 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1750 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1752 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1753 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1754 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1755 - Added new section about obsolete names
1756 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1757 * Fixed package's description
1759 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1761 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1765 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1767 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1770 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1771 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1772 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1774 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1776 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1779 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1780 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1782 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1783 and upload it "byhand" too.
1785 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1787 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1791 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1792 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1793 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1794 functionality must not have the same name.
1795 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1796 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1797 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1798 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1799 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1800 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1801 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1803 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1804 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1805 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1806 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1807 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1808 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1809 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1810 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1813 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1815 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1817 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1819 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1820 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1821 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1822 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1823 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1826 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1828 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1830 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1832 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1833 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1834 description of deb file format.
1835 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1836 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1838 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1840 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1841 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1843 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1845 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1847 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1848 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1849 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1850 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1851 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1852 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1853 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1854 packages in section on Procedure
1855 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1856 a package maintainer
1857 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1858 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1859 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1861 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1862 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1863 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1864 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1865 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1866 on various shlib files
1867 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1868 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1869 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1871 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1873 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1875 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1876 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1877 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1879 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1880 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1881 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1882 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1883 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1885 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1887 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1889 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1891 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1893 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1894 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1895 compatibility go in contrib.
1897 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1898 instructions in policy manual.
1899 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1902 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1904 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1906 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1907 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1908 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1909 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1911 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1912 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1915 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1917 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1919 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1920 * More detail about changelog format names.
1922 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1923 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1927 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1929 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1931 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1933 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1935 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1937 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1939 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1941 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1942 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1943 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1945 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1947 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1949 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1951 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1953 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1957 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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