1 debian-policy (3.7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
4 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
5 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
6 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
7 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
8 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
9 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
10 Millan (Closes: #209008).
11 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
12 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
14 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
16 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
18 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
19 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
20 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
21 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
22 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
23 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
24 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
26 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
27 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
28 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
29 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
31 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
32 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
33 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
34 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
35 * Add an md5sums control file.
36 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
37 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
38 currently part of policy.
39 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
40 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
44 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
47 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
48 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
49 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
50 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
51 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
52 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
53 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
54 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
55 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
56 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
57 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
58 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
59 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
60 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
61 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
63 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
65 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
66 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
67 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
69 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
70 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
71 list?" (Closes: #412634).
72 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
73 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
74 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
75 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
76 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
77 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
78 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
79 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
80 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
81 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
82 debconf specification.
83 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
84 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
86 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
88 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
91 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
92 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
93 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
94 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
96 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
98 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
99 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
100 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
101 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
102 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
104 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
105 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
106 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
107 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
108 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
109 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
110 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
111 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
112 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
113 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
114 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
115 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
116 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
117 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
118 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
119 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
121 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
123 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
124 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
125 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
126 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
127 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
128 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
129 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
130 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
132 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
134 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
137 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
138 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
139 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
140 Polo (Closes: #372497).
141 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
142 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
144 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
145 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
146 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
147 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
149 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
150 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
151 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
152 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
153 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
155 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
156 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
157 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
158 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
159 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
160 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
162 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
164 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
167 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
168 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
169 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
172 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
174 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
176 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
179 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
180 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
181 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
182 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
183 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
184 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
185 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
186 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
187 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
189 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
190 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
191 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
192 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
193 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
194 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
195 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
196 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
197 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
198 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
199 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
202 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
204 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
207 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
208 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
209 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
210 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
211 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
212 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
213 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
214 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
215 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
216 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
217 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
218 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
219 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
220 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
221 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
222 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
223 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
224 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
225 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
226 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
227 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
228 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
229 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
230 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
231 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
232 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
233 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
235 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
236 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
237 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
238 Hess (Closes: #362247).
239 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
240 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
241 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
242 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
243 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
244 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
245 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
246 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
247 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
248 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
249 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
250 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
252 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
253 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
255 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
256 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
257 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
258 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
259 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
260 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
261 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
262 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
263 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
264 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
265 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
267 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
269 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
273 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
274 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
275 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
276 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
277 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
278 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
279 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
280 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
281 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
282 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
283 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
284 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
286 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
287 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
289 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
290 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
291 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
292 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
293 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
294 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
296 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
297 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
298 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
299 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
300 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
301 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
302 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
303 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
304 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
307 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
309 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
312 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
313 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
314 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
316 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
317 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
318 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
319 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
321 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
323 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
327 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
328 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
329 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
330 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
331 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
332 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
333 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
334 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
335 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
337 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
338 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
339 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
341 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
342 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
343 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
344 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
345 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
346 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
347 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
349 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
350 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
351 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
352 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
354 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
355 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
356 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
357 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
358 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
359 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
360 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
361 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
363 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
364 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
365 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
366 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
367 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
368 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
369 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
370 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
371 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
372 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
373 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
374 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
375 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
376 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
377 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
378 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
379 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
381 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
383 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
386 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
387 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
388 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
389 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
390 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
391 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
392 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
393 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
394 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
396 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
397 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
398 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
399 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
400 this section. closes: Bug#248618
401 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
402 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
403 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
404 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
405 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
406 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
407 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
408 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
409 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
410 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
411 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
412 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
414 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
415 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
416 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
419 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
420 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
421 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
423 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
424 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
425 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
426 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
427 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
428 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
430 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
431 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
433 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
434 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
435 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
436 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
437 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
438 Closes: #185943, #237049
440 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
442 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
448 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
449 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
450 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
451 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
452 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
453 running. closes: Bug#187250
454 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
455 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
456 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
457 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
458 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
459 user closes: Bug#176506
461 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
463 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
467 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
468 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
469 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
470 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
471 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
472 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
473 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
474 deb-building toolchain.
475 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
476 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
477 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
478 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
479 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
480 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
481 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
482 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
483 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
484 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
485 sections about changelog files.
487 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
488 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
489 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
490 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
491 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
492 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
494 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
495 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
496 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
497 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
498 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
499 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
500 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
501 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
502 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
503 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
504 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
505 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
506 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
507 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
508 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
509 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
510 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
511 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
512 for the restructuring
514 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
516 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
521 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
522 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
523 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
524 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
525 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
526 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
528 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
529 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
530 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
531 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
532 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
533 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
534 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
536 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
537 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
538 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
539 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
541 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
543 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
547 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
548 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
549 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
550 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
551 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
553 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
554 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
555 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
556 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
558 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
559 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
560 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
561 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
562 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
563 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
564 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
565 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
566 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
568 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
569 script should start it, closes: #60979
570 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
571 "should", closes: #170019
572 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
573 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
574 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
575 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
576 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
577 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
578 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
579 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
582 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
584 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
588 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
589 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
590 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
591 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
592 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
593 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
594 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
595 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
597 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
598 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
599 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
600 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
601 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
602 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
603 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
604 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
605 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
607 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
608 file, closes: Bug#65764
610 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
612 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
615 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
616 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
617 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
618 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
619 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
620 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
621 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
622 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
623 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
624 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
625 details. closes: Bug#133030
626 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
627 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
630 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
632 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
635 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
636 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
637 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
638 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
639 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
640 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
641 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
642 not. closes: Bug#139820
643 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
644 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
645 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
646 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
647 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
648 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
649 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
650 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
651 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
652 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
654 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
656 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
657 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
658 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
659 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
660 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
661 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
662 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
663 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
664 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
665 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
666 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
667 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
668 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
669 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
670 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
671 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
672 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
673 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
674 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
675 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
677 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
678 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
679 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
680 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
681 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
682 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
683 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
685 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
686 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
687 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
688 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
689 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
690 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
691 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
692 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
693 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
695 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
697 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
700 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
701 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
702 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
703 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
704 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
705 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
706 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
707 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
708 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
709 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
710 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
711 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
712 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
713 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
714 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
715 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
716 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
717 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
718 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
719 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
720 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
721 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
723 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
725 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
728 medium, high, emergency.
729 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
730 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
731 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
732 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
733 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
736 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
737 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
738 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
740 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
741 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
742 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
743 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
744 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
745 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
746 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
749 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
751 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
754 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
755 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
756 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
758 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
759 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
760 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
761 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
762 debian/rules to do this
763 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
764 patches are incorporated upstream
765 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
766 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
767 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
768 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
769 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
770 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
772 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
773 system closes: Bug#91249
774 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
775 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
776 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
777 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
778 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
779 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
780 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
781 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
782 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
783 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
784 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
785 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
786 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
788 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
790 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
792 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
793 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
794 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
795 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
797 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
798 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
799 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
801 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
804 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
806 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
809 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
810 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
811 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
812 package for the time being
813 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
814 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
815 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
816 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
817 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
818 * Rename all .text files as .txt
819 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
820 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
821 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
822 Build-Depends arch syntax
823 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
825 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
826 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
828 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
829 from policy maintenance duties.
830 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
831 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
833 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
835 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
839 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
841 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
844 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
845 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
846 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
847 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
848 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
849 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
850 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
851 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
852 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
853 minor version number for this
854 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
855 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
856 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
857 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
858 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
859 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
860 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
861 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
862 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
864 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
866 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
868 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
869 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
870 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
871 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
872 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
874 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
876 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
877 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
878 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
879 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
880 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
881 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
882 xutils closes: Bug#82966
883 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
884 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
885 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
886 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
887 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
888 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
889 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
890 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
891 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
894 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
896 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
898 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
899 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
901 * Document the Enhances relationship
902 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
903 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
904 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
905 policy. closes: Bug#53496
906 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
907 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
909 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
911 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
912 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
913 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
914 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
916 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
917 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
918 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
919 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
920 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
922 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
924 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
927 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
928 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
930 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
931 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
932 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
933 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
934 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
935 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
936 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
937 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
938 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
940 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
942 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
944 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
946 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
947 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
948 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
949 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
950 policy. closes: Bug#64437
951 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
952 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
953 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
954 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
955 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
956 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
957 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
958 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
959 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
960 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
961 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
962 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
963 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
964 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
965 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
966 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
967 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
969 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
970 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
972 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
974 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
977 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
978 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
979 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
980 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
981 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
982 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
983 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
984 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
985 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
986 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
987 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
988 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
989 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
990 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
991 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
992 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
993 alternative closes: Bug#53755
994 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
995 list closes: Bug#53756
996 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
997 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
998 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
999 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1000 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1001 policy closes: Bug#53760
1002 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1003 policy closes: Bug#53761
1004 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1005 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1006 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1007 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1008 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1009 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1010 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1011 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1012 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1013 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1014 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1016 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1017 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1018 to install with older fileutils.
1019 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1020 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1021 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1022 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1024 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1025 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1027 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1029 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1032 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1034 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1036 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1039 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1041 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1044 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1047 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1049 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1051 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1053 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1056 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1058 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1060 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1063 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1064 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1065 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1066 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1067 directoried (closes: #41547)
1068 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1069 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1070 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1071 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1072 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1073 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1074 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1075 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1076 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1077 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1078 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1080 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1081 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1082 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1083 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1084 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1085 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1086 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1088 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1089 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1090 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1091 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1093 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1095 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1097 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1098 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1100 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1102 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1105 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1107 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1109 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1112 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1114 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1115 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1116 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1117 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1118 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1119 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1120 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1121 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1122 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1123 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1124 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1125 this closes: Bug#38612
1126 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1127 before. closes: Bug#40864
1129 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1131 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1134 officially uploaded.
1135 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1137 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1138 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1139 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1141 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1142 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1143 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1144 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1145 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1146 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1148 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1149 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1150 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1152 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1154 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1155 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1156 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1157 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1158 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1160 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1162 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1165 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1166 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1167 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1168 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1169 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1170 there). closes: Bug#34233
1171 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1172 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1173 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1174 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1175 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1177 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1179 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1182 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1183 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1184 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1187 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1188 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1189 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1190 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1191 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1194 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1195 number. closes: BUG#25911
1197 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1198 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1199 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1200 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1201 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1202 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1204 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1205 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1206 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1209 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1210 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1211 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1213 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1214 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1215 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1216 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1218 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1219 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1220 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1222 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1224 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1225 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1226 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1227 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1228 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1229 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1230 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1231 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1234 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1236 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1237 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1240 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1242 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1246 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1248 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1251 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1252 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1253 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1254 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1255 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1256 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1257 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1259 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1260 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1262 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1264 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1266 * non-maintainer release
1267 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1268 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1270 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1271 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1272 * no content changes
1273 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1275 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1277 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1281 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1283 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1287 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1288 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1289 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1291 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1292 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1294 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1295 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1296 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1297 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1299 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1300 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1301 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1302 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1303 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1304 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1305 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1307 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1308 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1309 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1312 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1313 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1314 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1316 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1317 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1318 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1320 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1321 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1323 * New version numbering scheme:
1325 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1326 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1327 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1330 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1331 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1332 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1333 differ between the manuals.
1335 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1336 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1337 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1338 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1340 * Packaging changes:
1342 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1343 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1345 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1347 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1349 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1353 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1354 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1355 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1357 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1358 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1361 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1362 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1363 file extension as the referenced file
1365 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1366 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1368 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1369 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1370 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1371 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1374 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1375 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1376 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1378 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1379 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1380 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1381 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1384 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1385 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1388 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1389 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1390 reasonable default configuration
1392 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1393 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1394 by all news servers and clients
1396 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1397 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1398 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1399 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1400 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1402 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1403 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1406 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1408 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1409 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1411 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1414 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1415 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1417 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1418 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1420 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1422 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1424 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1427 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1428 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1429 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1431 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1433 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1434 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1435 * Don't use debstd anymore
1437 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1439 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1442 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1443 contrib/non-free policy
1444 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1445 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1446 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1447 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1448 - new section about `Daemons'
1449 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1450 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1451 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1452 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1453 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1454 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1455 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1456 * SGML source code included in package
1457 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1459 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1461 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1464 - completely reworked structure
1465 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1466 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1467 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1468 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1469 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1470 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1471 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1472 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1473 - mention "orphaned packages"
1474 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1475 distributions' policy
1476 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1477 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1478 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1479 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1480 - added section about arch spec strings
1481 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1482 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1483 - added section about "menus"
1484 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1485 the new documentation policy soon
1486 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1487 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1489 - added section about editors and pagers
1490 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1491 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1492 - added section about device files
1493 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1494 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1495 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1497 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1498 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1499 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1500 - Added new section about obsolete names
1501 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1502 * Fixed package's description
1504 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1506 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1510 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1512 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1515 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1516 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1517 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1519 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1521 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1524 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1525 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1527 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1528 and upload it "byhand" too.
1530 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1532 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1536 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1537 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1538 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1539 functionality must not have the same name.
1540 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1541 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1542 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1543 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1544 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1545 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1546 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1548 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1549 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1550 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1551 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1552 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1553 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1554 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1555 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1558 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1560 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1562 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1564 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1565 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1566 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1567 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1568 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1571 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1573 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1575 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1577 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1578 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1579 description of deb file format.
1580 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1581 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1583 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1585 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1586 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1588 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1590 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1592 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1593 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1594 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1595 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1596 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1597 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1598 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1599 packages in section on Procedure
1600 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1601 a package maintainer
1602 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1603 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1604 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1606 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1607 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1608 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1609 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1610 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1611 on various shlib files
1612 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1613 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1614 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1616 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1618 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1620 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1621 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1622 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1624 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1625 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1626 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1627 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1628 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1630 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1632 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1634 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1636 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1638 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1639 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1640 compatibility go in contrib.
1642 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1643 instructions in policy manual.
1644 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1647 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1649 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1651 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1652 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1653 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1654 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1656 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1657 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1660 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1662 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1664 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1665 * More detail about changelog format names.
1667 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1668 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1672 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1674 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1676 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1678 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1680 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1682 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1684 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1686 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1687 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1688 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1690 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1692 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1694 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1696 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1698 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1702 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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