1 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
5 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
7 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
8 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
12 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
15 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
16 Wording: Steve Langasek.
17 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
18 Seconded: Julien Cristau
22 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
23 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
24 Seconded: Russ Allbery
25 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
28 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
29 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
30 Seconded: Russ Allbery
32 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
33 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
34 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
35 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
36 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
37 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
38 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
39 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
42 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
43 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
44 * [16afbcb]: Clarigy ./debian/rules #! line
45 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
46 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
47 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
48 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
50 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
51 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
52 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
53 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
54 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
55 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
56 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
59 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
60 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
61 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
62 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
63 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
65 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
69 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
70 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
73 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
74 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
77 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:36:04 -0600
79 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
82 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
86 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
87 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
91 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
92 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
96 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
97 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
100 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
101 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
103 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
104 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
109 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
110 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
114 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
115 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
119 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
120 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
124 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
125 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
129 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
130 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
134 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
135 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
136 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
137 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
138 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
139 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
140 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
141 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
142 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
143 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
144 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
145 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
146 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
147 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
148 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
150 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
151 Source field descriptions.
152 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
153 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
154 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
155 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
156 description says otherwise.
158 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
160 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
164 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
167 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
168 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
170 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
171 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
175 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
176 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
180 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
181 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
185 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
186 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
187 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
188 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
192 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
193 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
194 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
195 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
196 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
198 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
199 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
203 * Add myself to Uploaders.
206 * Add myself to Uploaders.
207 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
209 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
210 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
211 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
213 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
215 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
218 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
222 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
223 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
225 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
227 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
228 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
232 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
233 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
235 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
237 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
238 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
242 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
243 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
247 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
248 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
250 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
252 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
253 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
255 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
257 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
258 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
259 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
262 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
263 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
267 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
268 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
270 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
271 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
273 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
274 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
275 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
276 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
277 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
278 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
279 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
280 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
281 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
282 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
283 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
284 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
285 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
286 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
287 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
288 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
289 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
290 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
291 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
292 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
293 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
294 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
295 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
296 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
297 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
298 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
299 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
300 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
301 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
302 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
304 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
305 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
306 links was completed long ago.
307 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
309 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
311 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
314 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
316 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
318 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
321 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
322 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
323 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
324 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
325 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
326 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
327 Millan (Closes: #209008).
328 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
329 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
331 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
333 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
335 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
336 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
337 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
338 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
339 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
340 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
341 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
343 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
344 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
345 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
346 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
348 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
349 Küster (Closes: #403391).
350 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
351 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
352 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
353 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
354 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
355 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
359 Closes: #186700, #458910
360 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
361 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
364 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
365 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
366 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
367 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
368 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
369 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
370 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
371 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
373 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
374 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
376 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
377 * Add an md5sums control file.
378 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
379 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
380 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
381 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
382 currently part of policy.
383 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
384 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
385 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
388 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
390 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
393 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
394 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
395 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
396 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
397 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
398 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
399 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
400 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
401 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
402 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
403 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
404 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
405 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
406 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
407 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
409 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
411 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
412 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
413 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
415 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
416 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
417 list?" (Closes: #412634).
418 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
419 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
420 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
421 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
422 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
423 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
424 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
425 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
426 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
427 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
428 debconf specification.
429 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
430 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
432 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
434 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
437 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
438 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
439 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
440 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
442 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
444 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
445 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
446 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
447 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
448 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
450 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
451 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
452 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
453 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
454 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
455 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
456 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
457 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
458 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
459 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
460 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
461 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
462 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
463 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
464 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
465 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
467 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
469 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
470 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
471 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
472 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
473 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
474 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
475 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
476 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
478 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
480 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
483 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
484 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
485 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
486 Polo (Closes: #372497).
487 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
488 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
490 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
491 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
492 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
493 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
494 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
495 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
496 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
497 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
498 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
499 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
501 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
502 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
503 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
504 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
505 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
506 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
508 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
510 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
513 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
514 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
515 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
517 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
518 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
520 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
522 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
525 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
526 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
527 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
528 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
529 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
530 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
531 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
532 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
533 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
535 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
536 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
537 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
538 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
539 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
540 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
541 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
542 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
543 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
544 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
545 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
548 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
550 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
553 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
554 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
555 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
556 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
557 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
558 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
559 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
560 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
561 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
562 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
563 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
564 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
565 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
566 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
567 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
568 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
569 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
570 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
571 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
572 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
573 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
574 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
575 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
576 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
577 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
578 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
579 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
581 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
582 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
583 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
584 Hess (Closes: #362247).
585 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
586 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
587 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
588 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
589 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
590 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
591 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
592 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
593 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
594 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
595 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
596 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
598 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
599 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
601 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
602 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
603 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
604 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
605 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
606 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
607 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
608 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
609 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
610 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
611 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
613 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
615 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
619 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
620 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
621 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
622 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
623 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
624 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
625 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
626 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
627 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
628 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
629 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
630 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
632 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
633 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
634 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
635 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
636 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
637 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
638 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
639 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
640 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
641 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
642 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
643 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
644 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
645 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
646 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
647 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
648 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
649 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
650 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
653 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
655 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
658 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
659 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
660 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
662 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
663 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
664 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
665 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
667 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
669 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
673 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
674 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
675 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
676 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
677 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
678 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
679 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
680 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
681 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
683 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
684 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
685 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
687 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
688 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
689 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
690 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
691 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
692 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
693 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
695 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
696 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
697 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
698 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
700 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
701 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
702 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
703 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
704 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
705 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
706 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
707 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
709 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
710 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
711 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
712 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
713 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
714 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
715 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
716 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
717 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
718 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
719 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
720 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
721 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
722 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
723 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
724 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
725 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
727 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
729 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
732 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
733 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
734 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
735 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
736 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
737 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
738 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
739 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
740 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
742 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
743 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
744 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
745 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
746 this section. closes: Bug#248618
747 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
748 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
749 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
750 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
751 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
752 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
753 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
754 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
755 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
756 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
757 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
758 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
760 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
761 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
762 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
765 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
766 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
767 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
769 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
770 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
771 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
772 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
773 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
774 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
776 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
777 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
779 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
780 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
781 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
782 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
783 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
784 Closes: #185943, #237049
786 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
788 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
794 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
795 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
796 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
797 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
798 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
799 running. closes: Bug#187250
800 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
801 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
802 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
803 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
804 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
805 user closes: Bug#176506
807 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
809 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
813 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
814 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
815 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
816 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
817 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
818 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
819 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
820 deb-building toolchain.
821 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
822 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
823 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
824 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
825 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
826 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
827 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
828 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
829 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
830 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
831 sections about changelog files.
833 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
834 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
835 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
836 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
837 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
838 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
840 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
841 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
842 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
843 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
844 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
845 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
846 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
847 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
848 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
849 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
850 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
851 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
852 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
853 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
854 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
855 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
856 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
857 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
858 for the restructuring
860 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
862 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
867 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
868 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
869 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
870 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
871 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
872 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
874 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
875 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
876 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
877 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
878 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
879 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
880 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
882 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
883 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
884 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
885 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
887 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
889 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
893 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
894 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
895 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
896 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
897 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
899 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
900 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
901 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
902 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
904 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
905 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
906 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
907 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
908 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
909 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
910 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
911 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
912 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
914 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
915 script should start it, closes: #60979
916 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
917 "should", closes: #170019
918 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
919 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
920 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
921 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
922 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
923 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
924 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
925 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
928 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
930 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
934 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
935 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
936 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
937 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
938 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
939 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
940 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
941 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
943 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
944 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
945 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
946 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
947 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
948 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
949 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
950 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
951 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
953 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
954 file, closes: Bug#65764
956 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
958 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
961 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
962 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
963 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
964 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
965 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
966 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
967 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
968 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
969 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
970 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
971 details. closes: Bug#133030
972 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
973 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
976 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
978 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
981 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
982 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
983 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
984 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
985 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
986 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
987 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
988 not. closes: Bug#139820
989 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
990 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
991 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
992 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
993 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
994 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
995 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
996 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
997 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
998 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1000 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1002 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1003 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1004 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1005 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1006 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1007 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1008 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1009 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1010 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1011 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1012 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1013 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1014 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1015 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1016 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1017 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1018 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1019 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1020 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1021 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1023 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1024 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1025 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1026 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1027 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1028 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1029 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1031 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1032 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1033 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1034 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1035 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1036 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1037 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1038 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1039 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1041 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1043 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1046 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1047 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1048 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1049 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1050 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1051 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1052 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1053 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1054 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1055 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1056 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1057 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1058 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1059 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1060 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1061 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1062 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1063 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1064 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1065 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1066 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1067 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1069 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1071 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1074 medium, high, emergency.
1075 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1076 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1077 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1078 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1079 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1082 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1083 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1084 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1086 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1087 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1088 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1089 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1090 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1091 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1092 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1095 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1097 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1100 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1101 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1102 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1104 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1105 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1106 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1107 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1108 debian/rules to do this
1109 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1110 patches are incorporated upstream
1111 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1112 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1113 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1114 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1115 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1116 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1118 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1119 system closes: Bug#91249
1120 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1121 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1122 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1123 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1124 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1125 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1126 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1127 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1128 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1129 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1130 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1131 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1132 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1134 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1136 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1139 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1140 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1141 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1143 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1144 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1145 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1147 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1150 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1152 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1155 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1156 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1157 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1158 package for the time being
1159 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1160 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1161 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1162 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1163 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1164 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1165 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1166 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1167 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1168 Build-Depends arch syntax
1169 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1171 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1172 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1174 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1175 from policy maintenance duties.
1176 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1177 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1179 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1181 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1185 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1187 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1190 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1191 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1192 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1193 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1194 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1195 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1196 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1197 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1198 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1199 minor version number for this
1200 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1201 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1202 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1203 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1204 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1205 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1206 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1207 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1208 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1210 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1212 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1215 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1216 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1217 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1218 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1220 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1222 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1223 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1224 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1225 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1226 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1227 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1228 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1229 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1230 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1231 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1232 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1233 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1234 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1235 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1236 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1237 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1240 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1242 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1245 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1247 * Document the Enhances relationship
1248 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1249 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1250 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1251 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1252 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1253 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1255 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1257 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1258 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1259 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1260 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1262 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1263 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1264 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1265 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1266 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1268 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1270 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1273 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1274 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1276 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1277 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1278 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1279 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1280 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1281 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1282 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1283 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1284 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1286 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1288 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1290 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1293 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1294 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1295 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1296 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1297 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1298 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1299 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1300 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1301 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1302 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1303 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1304 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1305 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1306 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1307 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1308 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1309 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1310 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1311 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1312 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1313 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1315 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1316 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1318 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1320 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1323 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1324 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1325 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1326 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1327 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1328 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1329 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1330 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1331 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1332 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1333 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1334 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1335 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1336 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1337 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1338 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1339 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1340 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1341 list closes: Bug#53756
1342 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1343 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1344 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1345 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1346 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1347 policy closes: Bug#53760
1348 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1349 policy closes: Bug#53761
1350 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1351 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1352 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1353 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1354 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1355 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1356 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1357 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1358 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1359 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1360 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1362 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1363 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1364 to install with older fileutils.
1365 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1366 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1367 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1368 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1370 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1371 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1373 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1375 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1378 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1380 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1382 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1385 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1387 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1390 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1393 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1395 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1397 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1399 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1402 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1404 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1406 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1409 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1410 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1411 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1412 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1413 directoried (closes: #41547)
1414 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1415 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1416 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1417 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1418 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1419 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1420 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1421 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1422 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1423 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1424 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1426 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1427 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1428 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1429 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1430 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1431 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1432 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1434 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1435 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1436 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1437 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1439 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1441 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1443 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1444 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1446 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1448 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1451 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1453 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1455 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1458 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1460 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1461 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1462 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1463 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1464 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1465 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1466 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1467 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1468 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1469 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1470 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1471 this closes: Bug#38612
1472 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1473 before. closes: Bug#40864
1475 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1477 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1480 officially uploaded.
1481 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1483 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1484 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1485 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1487 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1488 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1489 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1490 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1491 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1492 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1494 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1495 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1496 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1498 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1500 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1501 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1502 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1503 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1504 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1506 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1508 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1511 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1512 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1513 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1514 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1515 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1516 there). closes: Bug#34233
1517 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1518 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1519 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1520 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1521 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1523 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1525 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1528 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1529 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1530 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1533 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1534 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1535 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1536 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1537 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1540 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1541 number. closes: BUG#25911
1543 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1544 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1545 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1546 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1547 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1548 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1550 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1551 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1552 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1555 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1556 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1557 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1559 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1560 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1561 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1562 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1564 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1565 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1566 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1568 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1570 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1571 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1572 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1573 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1574 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1575 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1576 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1577 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1580 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1582 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1583 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1586 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1588 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1592 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1594 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1597 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1598 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1599 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1600 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1601 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1602 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1603 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1605 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1606 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1608 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1610 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1612 * non-maintainer release
1613 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1614 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1616 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1617 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1618 * no content changes
1619 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1621 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1623 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1627 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1629 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1633 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1634 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1635 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1637 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1638 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1640 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1641 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1642 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1643 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1645 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1646 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1647 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1648 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1649 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1650 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1651 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1653 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1654 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1655 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1658 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1659 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1660 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1662 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1663 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1664 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1666 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1667 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1669 * New version numbering scheme:
1671 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1672 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1673 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1676 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1677 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1678 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1679 differ between the manuals.
1681 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1682 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1683 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1684 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1686 * Packaging changes:
1688 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1689 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1691 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1693 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1695 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1699 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1700 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1701 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1703 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1704 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1707 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1708 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1709 file extension as the referenced file
1711 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1712 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1714 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1715 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1716 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1717 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1720 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1721 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1722 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1724 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1725 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1726 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1727 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1730 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1731 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1734 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1735 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1736 reasonable default configuration
1738 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1739 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1740 by all news servers and clients
1742 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1743 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1744 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1745 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1746 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1748 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1749 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1752 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1754 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1755 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1757 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1760 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1761 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1763 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1764 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1766 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1768 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1770 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1773 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1774 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1775 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1777 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1779 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1780 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1781 * Don't use debstd anymore
1783 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1785 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1788 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1789 contrib/non-free policy
1790 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1791 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1792 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1793 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1794 - new section about `Daemons'
1795 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1796 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1797 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1798 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1799 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1800 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1801 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1802 * SGML source code included in package
1803 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1805 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1807 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1810 - completely reworked structure
1811 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1812 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1813 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1814 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1815 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1816 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1817 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1818 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1819 - mention "orphaned packages"
1820 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1821 distributions' policy
1822 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1823 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1824 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1825 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1826 - added section about arch spec strings
1827 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1828 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1829 - added section about "menus"
1830 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1831 the new documentation policy soon
1832 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1833 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1835 - added section about editors and pagers
1836 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1837 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1838 - added section about device files
1839 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1840 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1841 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1843 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1844 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1845 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1846 - Added new section about obsolete names
1847 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1848 * Fixed package's description
1850 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1852 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1856 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1858 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1861 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1862 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1863 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1865 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1867 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1870 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1871 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1873 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1874 and upload it "byhand" too.
1876 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1878 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1882 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1883 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1884 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1885 functionality must not have the same name.
1886 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1887 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1888 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1889 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1890 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1891 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1892 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1894 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1895 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1896 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1897 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1898 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1899 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1900 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1901 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1904 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1906 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1908 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1910 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1911 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1912 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1913 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1914 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1917 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1919 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1921 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1923 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1924 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1925 description of deb file format.
1926 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1927 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1929 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1931 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1932 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1934 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1936 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1938 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1939 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1940 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1941 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1942 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1943 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1944 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1945 packages in section on Procedure
1946 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1947 a package maintainer
1948 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1949 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1950 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1952 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1953 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1954 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1955 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1956 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1957 on various shlib files
1958 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1959 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1960 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1962 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1964 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1966 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1967 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1968 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1970 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1971 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1972 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1973 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1974 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1976 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1978 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1980 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1982 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1984 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1985 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1986 compatibility go in contrib.
1988 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1989 instructions in policy manual.
1990 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1993 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1995 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1997 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1998 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1999 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2000 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2002 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2003 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2006 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2008 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2010 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2011 * More detail about changelog format names.
2013 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2014 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2018 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2020 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2022 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2024 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2026 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2028 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2030 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2032 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2033 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2034 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2036 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2038 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2040 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2042 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2044 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2048 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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