1 debian-policy (3.8.2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
4 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
6 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:48 -0700
8 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
12 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
15 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
16 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
18 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
19 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
23 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
24 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
28 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
29 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
33 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
34 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
35 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
36 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
40 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
41 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
42 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
43 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
44 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
46 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
47 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
51 * Add myself to Uploaders.
54 * Add myself to Uploaders.
55 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
57 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
58 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
59 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
61 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
63 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
66 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
71 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
73 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
75 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
76 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
80 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
81 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
83 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
85 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
86 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
90 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
91 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
95 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
96 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
98 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
100 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
101 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
103 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
105 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
106 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
107 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
110 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
111 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
115 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
116 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
119 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
121 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
122 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
123 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
124 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
125 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
126 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
127 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
128 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
129 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
130 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
131 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
132 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
133 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
134 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
135 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
136 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
137 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
138 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
139 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
140 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
141 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
142 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
143 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
144 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
145 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
146 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
147 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
148 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
149 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
150 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
152 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
153 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
154 links was completed long ago.
155 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
157 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
159 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
162 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
164 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
166 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
169 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
170 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
171 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
172 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
173 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
174 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
175 Millan (Closes: #209008).
176 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
177 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
179 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
181 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
183 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
184 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
185 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
186 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
187 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
188 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
189 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
191 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
192 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
193 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
194 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
196 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
197 Küster (Closes: #403391).
198 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
199 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
200 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
201 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
202 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
203 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
207 Closes: #186700, #458910
208 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
209 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
212 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
213 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
214 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
215 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
216 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
217 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
218 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
219 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
221 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
222 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
224 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
225 * Add an md5sums control file.
226 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
227 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
228 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
229 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
230 currently part of policy.
231 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
232 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
233 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
236 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
238 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
241 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
242 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
243 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
244 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
245 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
246 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
247 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
248 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
249 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
250 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
251 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
252 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
253 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
254 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
255 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
257 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
259 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
260 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
261 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
263 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
264 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
265 list?" (Closes: #412634).
266 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
267 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
268 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
269 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
270 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
271 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
272 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
273 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
274 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
275 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
276 debconf specification.
277 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
278 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
280 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
282 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
284 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
285 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
286 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
287 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
288 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
290 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
293 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
294 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
295 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
296 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
298 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
299 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
300 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
301 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
302 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
303 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
304 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
305 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
306 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
307 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
308 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
309 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
310 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
311 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
312 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
313 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
315 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
317 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
318 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
319 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
320 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
321 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
322 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
323 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
324 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
326 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
328 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
331 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
332 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
334 Polo (Closes: #372497).
335 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
336 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
338 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
339 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
340 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
341 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
342 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
343 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
344 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
345 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
346 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
347 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
349 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
350 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
351 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
352 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
353 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
354 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
356 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
358 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
361 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
362 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
363 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
365 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
366 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
368 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
370 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
373 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
374 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
375 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
376 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
377 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
378 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
379 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
380 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
381 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
383 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
384 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
385 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
386 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
387 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
388 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
389 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
390 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
391 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
392 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
393 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
396 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
398 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
401 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
402 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
403 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
404 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
405 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
406 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
407 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
408 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
409 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
410 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
411 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
412 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
413 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
414 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
415 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
416 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
417 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
418 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
419 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
420 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
421 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
422 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
423 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
424 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
425 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
426 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
427 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
429 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
430 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
431 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
432 Hess (Closes: #362247).
433 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
434 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
435 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
436 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
437 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
438 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
439 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
440 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
441 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
442 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
443 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
444 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
446 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
447 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
449 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
450 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
451 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
452 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
453 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
454 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
455 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
456 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
457 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
458 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
459 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
461 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
463 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
467 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
468 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
469 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
470 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
471 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
472 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
473 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
474 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
475 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
476 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
477 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
478 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
480 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
481 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
482 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
483 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
484 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
485 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
486 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
487 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
488 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
489 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
490 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
491 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
492 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
493 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
494 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
495 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
496 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
497 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
498 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
501 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
503 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
506 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
507 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
508 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
510 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
511 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
512 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
513 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
515 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
517 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
521 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
522 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
523 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
524 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
525 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
526 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
527 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
528 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
529 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
531 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
532 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
533 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
535 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
536 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
537 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
538 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
539 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
540 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
541 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
543 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
544 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
545 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
546 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
548 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
549 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
550 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
551 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
552 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
553 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
554 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
555 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
557 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
558 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
559 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
560 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
561 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
562 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
563 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
564 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
565 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
566 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
567 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
568 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
569 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
570 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
571 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
572 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
573 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
575 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
577 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
580 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
581 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
582 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
583 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
584 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
585 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
586 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
587 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
588 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
590 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
591 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
592 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
593 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
594 this section. closes: Bug#248618
595 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
596 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
597 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
598 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
599 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
600 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
601 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
602 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
603 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
604 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
605 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
606 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
608 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
609 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
610 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
613 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
614 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
615 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
617 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
618 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
619 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
620 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
621 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
622 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
624 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
625 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
627 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
628 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
629 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
630 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
631 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
632 Closes: #185943, #237049
634 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
636 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
642 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
643 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
644 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
645 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
646 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
647 running. closes: Bug#187250
648 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
649 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
650 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
651 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
652 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
653 user closes: Bug#176506
655 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
657 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
661 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
662 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
663 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
664 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
665 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
666 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
667 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
668 deb-building toolchain.
669 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
670 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
671 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
672 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
673 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
674 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
675 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
676 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
677 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
678 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
679 sections about changelog files.
681 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
682 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
683 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
684 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
685 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
686 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
688 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
689 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
690 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
691 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
692 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
693 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
694 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
695 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
696 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
697 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
698 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
699 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
700 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
701 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
702 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
703 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
704 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
705 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
706 for the restructuring
708 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
710 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
715 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
716 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
717 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
718 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
719 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
720 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
722 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
723 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
724 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
725 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
726 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
727 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
728 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
730 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
731 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
732 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
733 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
735 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
737 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
741 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
742 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
743 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
744 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
745 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
747 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
748 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
749 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
750 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
752 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
753 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
754 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
755 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
756 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
757 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
758 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
759 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
760 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
762 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
763 script should start it, closes: #60979
764 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
765 "should", closes: #170019
766 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
767 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
768 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
769 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
770 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
771 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
772 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
773 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
776 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
778 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
782 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
783 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
784 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
785 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
786 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
787 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
788 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
789 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
791 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
792 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
793 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
794 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
795 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
796 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
797 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
798 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
799 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
801 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
802 file, closes: Bug#65764
804 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
806 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
809 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
810 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
811 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
812 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
813 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
814 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
815 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
816 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
817 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
818 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
819 details. closes: Bug#133030
820 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
821 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
824 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
826 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
829 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
830 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
831 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
832 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
833 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
834 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
835 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
836 not. closes: Bug#139820
837 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
838 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
839 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
840 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
841 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
842 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
843 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
844 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
845 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
846 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
848 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
850 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
851 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
852 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
853 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
854 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
855 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
856 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
857 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
858 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
859 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
860 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
861 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
862 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
863 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
864 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
865 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
866 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
867 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
868 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
869 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
871 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
872 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
873 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
874 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
875 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
876 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
877 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
879 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
880 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
881 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
882 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
883 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
884 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
885 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
886 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
887 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
889 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
891 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
894 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
895 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
896 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
897 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
898 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
899 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
900 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
901 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
902 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
903 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
904 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
905 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
906 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
907 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
908 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
909 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
910 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
911 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
912 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
913 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
914 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
915 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
917 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
919 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
922 medium, high, emergency.
923 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
924 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
925 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
926 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
927 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
930 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
931 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
932 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
934 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
935 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
936 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
937 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
938 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
939 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
940 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
943 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
945 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
948 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
949 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
950 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
952 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
953 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
954 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
955 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
956 debian/rules to do this
957 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
958 patches are incorporated upstream
959 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
960 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
961 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
962 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
963 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
964 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
966 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
967 system closes: Bug#91249
968 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
969 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
970 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
971 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
972 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
973 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
974 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
975 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
976 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
977 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
978 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
979 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
980 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
982 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
984 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
986 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
987 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
988 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
989 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
991 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
992 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
993 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
995 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
998 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1000 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1003 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1004 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1005 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1006 package for the time being
1007 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1008 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1009 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1010 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1011 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1012 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1013 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1014 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1015 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1016 Build-Depends arch syntax
1017 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1019 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1020 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1022 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1023 from policy maintenance duties.
1024 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1025 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1027 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1029 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1033 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1035 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1038 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1039 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1040 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1041 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1042 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1043 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1044 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1045 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1046 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1047 minor version number for this
1048 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1049 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1050 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1051 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1052 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1053 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1054 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1055 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1056 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1058 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1060 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1063 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1064 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1065 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1066 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1068 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1070 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1071 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1072 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1073 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1074 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1075 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1076 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1077 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1078 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1079 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1080 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1081 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1082 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1083 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1084 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1085 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1088 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1090 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1093 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1095 * Document the Enhances relationship
1096 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1097 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1098 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1099 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1100 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1101 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1103 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1105 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1106 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1107 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1108 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1110 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1111 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1112 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1113 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1114 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1116 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1118 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1121 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1122 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1124 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1125 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1126 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1127 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1128 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1129 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1130 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1131 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1132 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1134 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1136 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1138 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1141 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1142 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1143 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1144 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1145 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1146 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1147 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1148 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1149 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1150 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1151 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1152 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1153 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1154 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1155 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1156 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1157 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1158 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1159 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1160 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1161 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1163 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1164 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1166 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1168 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1171 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1172 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1173 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1174 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1175 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1176 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1177 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1178 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1179 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1180 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1181 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1182 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1183 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1184 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1185 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1186 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1187 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1188 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1189 list closes: Bug#53756
1190 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1191 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1192 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1193 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1194 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1195 policy closes: Bug#53760
1196 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1197 policy closes: Bug#53761
1198 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1199 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1200 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1201 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1202 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1203 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1204 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1205 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1206 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1207 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1208 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1210 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1211 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1212 to install with older fileutils.
1213 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1214 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1215 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1216 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1218 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1219 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1221 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1223 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1226 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1228 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1230 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1233 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1235 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1238 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1241 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1243 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1245 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1247 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1250 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1252 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1254 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1257 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1258 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1259 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1260 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1261 directoried (closes: #41547)
1262 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1263 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1264 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1265 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1266 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1267 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1268 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1269 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1270 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1271 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1272 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1274 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1275 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1276 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1277 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1278 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1279 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1280 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1282 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1283 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1284 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1285 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1287 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1289 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1291 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1292 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1294 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1296 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1299 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1301 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1303 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1306 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1308 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1309 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1310 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1311 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1312 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1313 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1314 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1315 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1316 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1317 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1318 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1319 this closes: Bug#38612
1320 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1321 before. closes: Bug#40864
1323 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1325 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1328 officially uploaded.
1329 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1331 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1332 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1333 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1335 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1336 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1337 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1338 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1339 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1340 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1342 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1343 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1344 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1346 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1348 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1349 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1350 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1351 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1352 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1354 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1356 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1359 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1360 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1361 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1362 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1363 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1364 there). closes: Bug#34233
1365 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1366 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1367 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1368 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1369 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1371 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1373 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1376 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1377 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1378 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1381 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1382 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1383 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1384 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1385 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1388 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1389 number. closes: BUG#25911
1391 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1392 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1393 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1394 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1395 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1396 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1398 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1399 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1400 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1403 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1404 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1405 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1407 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1408 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1409 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1410 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1412 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1413 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1414 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1416 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1418 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1419 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1420 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1421 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1422 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1423 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1424 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1425 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1428 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1430 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1431 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1434 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1436 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1440 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1442 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1445 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1446 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1447 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1448 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1449 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1450 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1451 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1453 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1454 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1456 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1458 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1460 * non-maintainer release
1461 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1462 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1464 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1465 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1466 * no content changes
1467 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1469 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1471 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1475 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1477 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1481 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1482 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1483 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1485 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1486 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1488 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1489 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1490 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1491 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1493 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1494 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1495 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1496 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1497 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1498 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1499 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1501 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1502 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1503 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1506 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1507 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1508 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1510 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1511 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1512 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1514 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1515 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1517 * New version numbering scheme:
1519 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1520 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1521 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1524 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1525 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1526 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1527 differ between the manuals.
1529 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1530 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1531 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1532 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1534 * Packaging changes:
1536 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1537 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1539 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1541 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1543 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1547 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1548 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1549 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1551 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1552 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1555 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1556 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1557 file extension as the referenced file
1559 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1560 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1562 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1563 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1564 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1565 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1568 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1569 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1570 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1572 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1573 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1574 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1575 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1578 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1579 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1582 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1583 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1584 reasonable default configuration
1586 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1587 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1588 by all news servers and clients
1590 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1591 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1592 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1593 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1594 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1596 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1597 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1600 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1602 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1603 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1605 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1608 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1609 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1611 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1612 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1614 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1616 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1618 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1621 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1622 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1623 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1625 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1627 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1628 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1629 * Don't use debstd anymore
1631 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1633 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1636 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1637 contrib/non-free policy
1638 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1639 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1640 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1641 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1642 - new section about `Daemons'
1643 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1644 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1645 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1646 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1647 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1648 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1649 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1650 * SGML source code included in package
1651 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1653 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1655 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1658 - completely reworked structure
1659 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1660 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1661 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1662 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1663 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1664 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1665 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1666 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1667 - mention "orphaned packages"
1668 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1669 distributions' policy
1670 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1671 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1672 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1673 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1674 - added section about arch spec strings
1675 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1676 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1677 - added section about "menus"
1678 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1679 the new documentation policy soon
1680 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1681 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1683 - added section about editors and pagers
1684 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1685 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1686 - added section about device files
1687 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1688 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1689 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1691 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1692 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1693 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1694 - Added new section about obsolete names
1695 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1696 * Fixed package's description
1698 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1700 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1704 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1706 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1709 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1710 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1711 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1713 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1715 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1718 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1719 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1721 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1722 and upload it "byhand" too.
1724 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1726 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1730 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1731 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1732 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1733 functionality must not have the same name.
1734 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1735 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1736 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1737 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1738 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1739 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1740 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1742 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1743 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1744 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1745 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1746 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1747 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1748 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1749 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1752 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1754 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1756 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1758 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1759 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1760 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1761 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1762 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1765 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1767 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1769 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1771 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1772 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1773 description of deb file format.
1774 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1775 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1777 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1779 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1780 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1782 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1784 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1786 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1787 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1788 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1789 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1790 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1791 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1792 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1793 packages in section on Procedure
1794 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1795 a package maintainer
1796 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1797 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1798 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1800 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1801 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1802 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1803 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1804 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1805 on various shlib files
1806 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1807 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1808 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1810 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1812 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1814 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1815 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1816 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1818 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1819 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1820 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1821 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1822 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1824 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1826 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1828 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1830 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1832 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1833 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1834 compatibility go in contrib.
1836 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1837 instructions in policy manual.
1838 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1841 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1843 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1845 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1846 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1847 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1848 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1850 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1851 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1854 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1856 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1858 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1859 * More detail about changelog format names.
1861 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1862 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1866 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1868 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1870 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1872 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1874 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1876 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1878 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1880 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1881 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1882 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1884 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1886 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1888 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1890 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1892 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1896 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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