1 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
7 Closes: #459868, #581011
8 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
9 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
11 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
13 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
14 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
16 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
18 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
19 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
23 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
24 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
25 machine. (Closes: #591857)
26 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
27 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
28 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
29 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
30 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
31 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
32 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
33 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
34 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
35 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
37 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
38 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
39 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
40 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
41 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
42 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
43 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
44 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
45 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
46 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
47 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
48 than the version in oldstable.
49 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
50 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
51 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
52 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
54 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:47:47 -0700
56 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
59 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
64 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
65 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
69 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
70 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
74 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
75 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
79 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
80 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
84 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
85 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
89 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
90 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
94 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
95 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
97 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
99 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
100 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
102 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
104 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
105 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
110 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
111 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
116 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
117 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
121 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
122 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
126 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
127 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
131 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
132 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
136 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
137 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
141 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
142 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
146 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
148 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
149 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
150 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
151 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
152 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
153 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
154 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
155 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
156 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
158 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
159 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
160 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
161 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
162 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
163 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
165 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
167 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
173 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
176 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
177 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
178 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
179 and distribution license' (three times).
180 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
181 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
186 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
188 Proposed by Santiago Vila
189 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
196 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
197 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
201 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
202 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
203 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
206 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
208 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
209 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
213 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
214 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
217 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
219 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
220 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
223 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
225 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
226 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
229 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
231 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
232 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
233 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
236 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
237 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
242 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
243 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
247 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
248 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
252 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
253 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
254 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
258 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
259 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
260 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
263 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
264 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
269 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
270 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
274 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
275 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
276 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
277 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
278 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
279 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
280 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
281 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
282 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
283 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
284 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
285 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
286 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
287 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
288 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
289 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
290 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
291 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
292 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
293 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
294 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
295 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
296 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
297 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
298 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
299 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
300 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
301 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
302 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
303 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
304 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
305 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
307 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
309 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
311 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
315 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
317 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
318 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
322 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
325 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
326 Wording: Steve Langasek.
327 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
328 Seconded: Julien Cristau
329 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
332 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
333 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
334 Seconded: Russ Allbery
335 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
338 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
339 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
340 Seconded: Russ Allbery
342 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
343 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
344 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
345 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
346 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
347 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
348 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
349 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
352 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
353 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
354 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
355 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
356 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
357 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
358 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
360 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
361 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
362 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
363 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
364 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
365 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
366 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
369 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
370 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
371 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
372 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
373 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
375 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
378 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
379 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
382 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
383 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
386 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
388 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
391 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
395 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
396 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
400 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
401 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
405 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
406 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
409 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
410 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
412 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
413 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
418 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
419 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
423 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
424 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
428 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
429 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
433 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
434 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
438 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
439 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
443 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
444 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
445 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
446 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
447 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
448 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
449 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
450 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
451 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
452 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
453 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
454 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
455 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
456 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
457 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
459 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
460 Source field descriptions.
461 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
462 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
463 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
464 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
465 description says otherwise.
467 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
469 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
473 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
476 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
477 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
479 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
480 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
484 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
485 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
489 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
490 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
494 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
495 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
496 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
497 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
501 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
502 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
503 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
504 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
505 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
507 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
508 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
512 * Add myself to Uploaders.
515 * Add myself to Uploaders.
516 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
518 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
519 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
520 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
522 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
524 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
527 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
532 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
534 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
536 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
537 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
541 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
542 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
544 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
546 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
547 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
551 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
552 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
556 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
557 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
559 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
561 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
562 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
564 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
566 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
567 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
568 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
571 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
572 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
576 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
577 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
580 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
582 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
583 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
584 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
585 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
586 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
587 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
588 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
589 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
590 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
591 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
592 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
593 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
594 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
595 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
596 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
597 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
598 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
599 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
600 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
601 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
602 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
603 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
604 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
605 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
606 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
607 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
608 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
609 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
610 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
611 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
613 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
614 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
615 links was completed long ago.
616 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
618 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
620 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
623 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
625 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
627 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
630 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
631 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
632 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
633 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
634 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
635 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
636 Millan (Closes: #209008).
637 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
638 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
640 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
642 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
644 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
645 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
646 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
647 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
648 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
649 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
650 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
652 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
653 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
654 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
655 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
657 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
658 Küster (Closes: #403391).
659 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
660 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
661 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
662 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
663 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
664 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
668 Closes: #186700, #458910
669 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
670 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
673 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
674 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
675 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
676 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
677 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
678 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
679 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
680 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
682 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
683 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
685 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
686 * Add an md5sums control file.
687 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
688 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
689 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
690 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
691 currently part of policy.
692 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
693 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
694 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
697 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
699 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
702 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
703 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
704 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
705 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
706 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
707 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
708 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
709 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
710 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
711 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
712 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
713 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
714 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
715 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
716 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
718 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
720 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
721 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
722 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
724 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
725 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
726 list?" (Closes: #412634).
727 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
728 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
729 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
730 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
731 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
732 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
733 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
734 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
735 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
736 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
737 debconf specification.
738 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
739 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
741 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
743 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
746 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
747 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
748 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
749 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
751 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
753 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
754 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
755 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
756 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
757 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
759 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
760 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
761 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
762 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
763 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
764 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
765 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
766 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
767 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
768 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
769 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
770 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
771 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
772 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
773 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
774 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
776 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
778 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
779 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
780 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
781 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
782 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
783 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
784 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
785 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
787 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
789 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
792 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
793 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
794 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
795 Polo (Closes: #372497).
796 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
797 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
799 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
800 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
801 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
802 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
803 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
804 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
805 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
806 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
807 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
808 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
810 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
811 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
812 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
813 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
814 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
815 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
817 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
819 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
822 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
823 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
824 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
826 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
827 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
829 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
831 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
834 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
835 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
836 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
837 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
838 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
839 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
840 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
841 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
842 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
844 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
845 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
846 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
847 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
848 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
849 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
850 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
851 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
852 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
853 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
854 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
857 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
859 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
862 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
863 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
864 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
865 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
866 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
867 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
868 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
869 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
870 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
871 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
872 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
873 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
874 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
875 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
876 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
877 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
878 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
879 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
880 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
881 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
882 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
883 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
884 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
885 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
886 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
887 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
888 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
890 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
891 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
892 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
893 Hess (Closes: #362247).
894 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
895 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
896 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
897 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
898 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
899 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
900 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
901 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
902 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
903 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
904 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
905 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
907 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
908 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
910 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
911 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
912 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
913 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
914 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
915 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
916 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
917 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
918 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
919 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
920 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
922 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
924 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
928 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
929 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
930 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
931 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
932 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
933 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
934 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
935 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
936 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
937 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
938 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
939 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
941 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
942 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
943 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
944 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
945 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
946 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
947 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
948 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
949 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
950 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
951 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
952 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
953 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
954 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
955 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
956 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
957 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
958 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
959 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
962 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
964 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
967 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
968 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
969 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
971 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
972 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
973 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
974 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
976 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
978 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
982 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
983 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
984 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
985 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
986 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
987 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
988 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
989 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
990 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
992 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
993 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
994 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
996 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
997 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
998 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
999 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1000 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1001 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1002 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1004 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1005 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1006 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1007 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1009 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1010 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1011 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1012 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1013 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1014 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1015 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1016 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1018 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1019 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1020 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1021 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1022 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1023 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1024 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1025 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1026 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1027 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1028 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1029 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1030 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1031 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1032 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1033 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1034 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1036 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1038 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1042 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1043 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1044 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1045 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1046 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1047 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1048 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1049 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1051 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1052 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1053 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1054 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1055 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1056 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1057 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1058 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1059 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1060 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1061 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1062 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1063 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1064 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1065 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1066 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1067 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1069 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1070 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1071 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1074 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1075 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1076 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1078 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1079 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1080 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1081 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1082 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1083 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1085 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1086 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1088 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1089 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1090 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1091 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1092 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1093 Closes: #185943, #237049
1095 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1097 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1103 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1104 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1105 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1106 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1107 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1108 running. closes: Bug#187250
1109 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1110 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1111 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1112 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1113 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1114 user closes: Bug#176506
1116 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1118 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1122 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1123 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1124 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1125 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1126 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1127 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1128 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1129 deb-building toolchain.
1130 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1131 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1132 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1133 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1134 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1135 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1136 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1137 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1138 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1139 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1140 sections about changelog files.
1142 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1143 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1144 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1145 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1146 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1147 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1149 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1150 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1151 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1152 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1153 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1154 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1155 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1156 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1157 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1158 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1159 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1160 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1161 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1162 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1163 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1164 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1165 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1166 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1167 for the restructuring
1169 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1171 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1176 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1177 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1178 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1179 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1180 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1181 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1183 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1184 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1185 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1186 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1187 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1188 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1189 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1191 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1192 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1193 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1194 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1196 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1198 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1202 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1203 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1204 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1205 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1206 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1208 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1209 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1210 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1211 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1213 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1214 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1215 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1216 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1217 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1218 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1219 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1220 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1221 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1222 offtopic stuff, too.
1223 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1224 script should start it, closes: #60979
1225 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1226 "should", closes: #170019
1227 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1228 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1229 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1230 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1231 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1232 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1233 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1234 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1237 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1239 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1243 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1244 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1245 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1246 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1247 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1248 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1249 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1250 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1252 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1253 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1254 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1255 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1256 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1257 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1258 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1259 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1260 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1262 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1263 file, closes: Bug#65764
1265 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1267 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1270 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1271 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1272 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1273 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1274 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1275 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1276 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1277 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1278 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1279 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1280 details. closes: Bug#133030
1281 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1282 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1283 parts of Bug#161455.
1285 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1287 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1290 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1291 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1292 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1293 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1294 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1295 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1296 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1297 not. closes: Bug#139820
1298 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1299 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1300 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1301 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1302 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1303 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1304 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1305 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1306 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1307 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1309 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1311 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1312 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1313 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1314 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1315 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1316 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1317 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1318 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1319 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1320 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1321 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1322 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1323 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1324 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1325 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1326 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1327 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1328 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1329 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1330 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1332 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1333 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1334 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1335 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1336 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1337 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1338 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1340 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1341 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1342 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1343 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1344 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1345 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1346 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1347 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1348 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1350 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1352 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1355 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1356 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1357 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1358 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1359 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1360 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1361 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1362 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1363 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1364 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1365 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1366 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1367 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1368 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1369 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1370 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1371 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1372 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1373 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1374 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1375 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1376 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1378 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1380 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1383 medium, high, emergency.
1384 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1385 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1386 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1387 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1388 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1391 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1392 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1393 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1395 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1396 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1397 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1398 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1399 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1400 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1401 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1404 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1406 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1409 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1410 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1411 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1413 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1414 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1415 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1416 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1417 debian/rules to do this
1418 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1419 patches are incorporated upstream
1420 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1421 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1422 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1423 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1424 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1425 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1427 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1428 system closes: Bug#91249
1429 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1430 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1431 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1432 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1433 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1434 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1435 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1436 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1437 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1438 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1439 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1440 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1441 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1443 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1445 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1448 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1449 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1450 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1452 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1453 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1454 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1456 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1459 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1461 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1464 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1465 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1466 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1467 package for the time being
1468 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1469 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1470 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1471 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1472 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1473 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1474 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1475 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1476 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1477 Build-Depends arch syntax
1478 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1480 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1481 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1483 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1484 from policy maintenance duties.
1485 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1486 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1488 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1490 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1494 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1496 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1499 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1500 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1501 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1502 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1503 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1504 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1505 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1506 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1507 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1508 minor version number for this
1509 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1510 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1511 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1512 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1513 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1514 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1515 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1516 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1517 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1519 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1521 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1524 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1525 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1526 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1527 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1529 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1531 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1532 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1533 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1534 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1535 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1536 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1537 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1538 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1539 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1540 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1541 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1542 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1543 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1544 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1545 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1546 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1549 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1551 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1554 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1556 * Document the Enhances relationship
1557 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1558 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1559 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1560 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1561 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1562 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1564 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1566 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1567 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1568 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1569 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1571 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1572 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1573 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1574 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1575 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1577 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1579 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1582 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1583 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1585 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1586 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1587 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1588 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1589 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1590 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1591 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1592 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1593 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1595 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1597 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1599 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1602 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1603 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1604 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1605 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1606 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1607 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1608 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1609 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1610 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1611 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1612 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1613 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1614 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1615 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1616 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1617 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1618 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1619 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1620 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1621 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1622 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1624 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1625 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1627 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1629 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1632 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1633 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1634 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1635 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1636 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1637 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1638 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1639 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1640 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1641 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1642 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1643 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1644 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1645 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1646 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1647 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1648 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1649 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1650 list closes: Bug#53756
1651 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1652 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1653 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1654 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1655 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1656 policy closes: Bug#53760
1657 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1658 policy closes: Bug#53761
1659 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1660 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1661 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1662 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1663 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1664 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1665 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1666 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1667 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1668 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1669 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1671 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1672 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1673 to install with older fileutils.
1674 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1675 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1676 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1677 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1679 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1680 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1682 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1684 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1687 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1689 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1691 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1694 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1696 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1699 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1702 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1704 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1706 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1708 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1711 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1713 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1715 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1718 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1719 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1720 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1721 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1722 directoried (closes: #41547)
1723 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1724 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1725 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1726 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1727 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1728 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1729 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1730 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1731 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1732 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1733 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1735 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1736 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1737 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1738 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1739 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1740 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1741 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1743 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1744 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1745 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1746 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1748 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1750 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1752 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1753 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1755 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1757 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1760 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1762 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1764 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1767 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1769 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1770 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1771 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1772 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1773 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1774 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1775 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1776 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1777 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1778 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1779 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1780 this closes: Bug#38612
1781 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1782 before. closes: Bug#40864
1784 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1786 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1789 officially uploaded.
1790 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1792 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1793 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1794 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1796 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1797 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1798 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1799 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1800 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1801 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1803 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1804 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1805 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1807 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1809 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1810 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1811 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1812 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1813 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1815 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1817 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1820 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1821 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1822 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1823 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1824 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1825 there). closes: Bug#34233
1826 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1827 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1828 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1829 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1830 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1832 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1834 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1837 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1838 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1839 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1842 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1843 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1844 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1845 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1846 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1849 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1850 number. closes: BUG#25911
1852 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1853 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1854 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1855 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1856 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1857 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1859 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1860 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1861 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1864 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1865 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1866 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1868 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1869 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1870 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1871 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1873 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1874 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1875 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1877 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1879 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1880 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1881 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1882 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1883 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1884 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1885 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1886 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1889 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1891 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1892 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1895 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1897 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1901 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1903 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1906 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1907 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1908 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1909 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1910 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1911 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1912 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1914 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1915 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1917 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1919 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1921 * non-maintainer release
1922 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1923 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1925 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1926 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1927 * no content changes
1928 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1930 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1932 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1936 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1938 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1942 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1943 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1944 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1946 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1947 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1949 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1950 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1951 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1952 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1954 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1955 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1956 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1957 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1958 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1959 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1960 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1962 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1963 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1964 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1967 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1968 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1969 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1971 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1972 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1973 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1975 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1976 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1978 * New version numbering scheme:
1980 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1981 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1982 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1985 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1986 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1987 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1988 differ between the manuals.
1990 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1991 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1992 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1993 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1995 * Packaging changes:
1997 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1998 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2000 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2002 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2004 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2008 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2009 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2010 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2012 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2013 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2016 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2017 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2018 file extension as the referenced file
2020 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2021 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2023 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2024 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2025 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2026 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2029 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2030 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2031 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2033 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2034 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2035 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2036 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2039 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2040 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2043 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2044 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2045 reasonable default configuration
2047 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2048 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2049 by all news servers and clients
2051 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2052 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2053 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2054 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2055 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2057 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2058 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2061 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2063 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2064 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2066 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2069 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2070 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2072 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2073 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2075 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2077 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2079 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2082 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2083 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2084 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2086 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2088 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2089 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2090 * Don't use debstd anymore
2092 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2094 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2097 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2098 contrib/non-free policy
2099 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2100 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2101 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2102 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2103 - new section about `Daemons'
2104 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2105 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2106 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2107 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2108 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2109 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2110 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2111 * SGML source code included in package
2112 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2114 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2116 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2119 - completely reworked structure
2120 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2121 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2122 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2123 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2124 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2125 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2126 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2127 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2128 - mention "orphaned packages"
2129 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2130 distributions' policy
2131 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2132 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2133 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2134 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2135 - added section about arch spec strings
2136 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2137 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2138 - added section about "menus"
2139 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2140 the new documentation policy soon
2141 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2142 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2144 - added section about editors and pagers
2145 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2146 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2147 - added section about device files
2148 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2149 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2150 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2152 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2153 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2154 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2155 - Added new section about obsolete names
2156 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2157 * Fixed package's description
2159 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2161 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2165 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2167 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2170 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2171 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2172 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2174 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2176 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2179 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2180 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2182 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2183 and upload it "byhand" too.
2185 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2187 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2191 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2192 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2193 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2194 functionality must not have the same name.
2195 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2196 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2197 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2198 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2199 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2200 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2201 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2203 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2204 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2205 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2206 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2207 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2208 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2209 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2210 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2213 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2215 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2217 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2219 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2220 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2221 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2222 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2223 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2226 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2228 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2230 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2232 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2233 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2234 description of deb file format.
2235 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2236 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2238 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2240 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2241 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2243 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2245 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2247 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2248 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2249 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2250 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2251 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2252 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2253 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2254 packages in section on Procedure
2255 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2256 a package maintainer
2257 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2258 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2259 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2261 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2262 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2263 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2264 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2265 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2266 on various shlib files
2267 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2268 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2269 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2271 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2273 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2275 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2276 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2277 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2279 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2280 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2281 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2282 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2283 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2285 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2287 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2289 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2291 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2293 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2294 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2295 compatibility go in contrib.
2297 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2298 instructions in policy manual.
2299 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2302 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2304 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2306 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2307 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2308 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2309 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2311 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2312 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2315 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2317 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2319 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2320 * More detail about changelog format names.
2322 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2323 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2327 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2329 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2331 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2333 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2335 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2337 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2339 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2341 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2342 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2343 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2345 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2347 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2349 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2351 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2353 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2357 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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