1 debian-policy (3.8.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
5 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
7 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
8 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
11 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
14 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
15 Wording: Steve Langasek.
16 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
17 Seconded: Julien Cristau
21 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
22 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
23 Seconded: Russ Allbery
24 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
27 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:02:00 -0500
29 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
32 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
36 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
37 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
41 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
42 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
46 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
47 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
50 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
51 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
53 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
54 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
59 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
60 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
64 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
65 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
69 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
70 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
74 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
75 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
79 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
80 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
84 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
85 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
86 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
87 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
88 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
89 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
90 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
91 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
92 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
93 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
94 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
95 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
96 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
97 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
98 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
100 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
101 Source field descriptions.
102 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
103 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
104 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
105 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
106 description says otherwise.
108 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
110 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
114 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
117 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
118 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
120 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
121 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
125 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
126 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
130 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
131 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
135 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
136 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
137 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
138 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
142 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
143 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
144 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
145 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
146 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
148 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
149 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
153 * Add myself to Uploaders.
156 * Add myself to Uploaders.
157 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
159 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
160 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
161 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
163 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
165 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
168 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
172 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
173 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
175 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
177 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
178 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
182 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
183 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
185 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
187 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
188 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
192 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
197 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
198 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
200 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
202 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
203 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
205 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
207 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
208 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
209 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
212 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
213 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
217 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
218 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
221 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
223 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
224 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
225 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
226 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
227 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
228 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
229 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
230 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
231 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
232 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
233 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
234 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
235 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
236 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
237 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
238 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
239 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
240 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
241 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
242 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
243 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
244 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
245 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
246 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
247 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
248 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
249 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
250 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
251 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
252 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
254 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
255 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
256 links was completed long ago.
257 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
259 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
261 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
264 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
266 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
268 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
271 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
272 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
273 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
274 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
275 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
276 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
277 Millan (Closes: #209008).
278 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
279 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
281 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
283 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
285 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
286 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
287 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
288 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
289 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
290 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
291 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
293 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
294 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
295 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
296 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
298 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
299 Küster (Closes: #403391).
300 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
301 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
302 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
303 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
304 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
305 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
309 Closes: #186700, #458910
310 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
311 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
314 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
315 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
316 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
317 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
318 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
319 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
320 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
321 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
323 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
324 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
326 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
327 * Add an md5sums control file.
328 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
329 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
330 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
331 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
332 currently part of policy.
333 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
334 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
335 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
338 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
340 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
343 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
344 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
345 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
346 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
347 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
348 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
349 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
350 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
351 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
352 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
353 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
354 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
355 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
356 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
357 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
359 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
361 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
362 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
363 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
365 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
366 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
367 list?" (Closes: #412634).
368 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
369 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
370 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
371 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
372 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
373 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
374 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
375 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
376 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
377 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
378 debconf specification.
379 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
380 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
382 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
384 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
387 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
388 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
389 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
390 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
392 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
394 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
395 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
396 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
397 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
398 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
400 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
401 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
402 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
403 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
404 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
405 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
406 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
407 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
408 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
409 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
410 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
411 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
412 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
413 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
414 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
415 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
417 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
419 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
420 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
421 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
422 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
423 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
424 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
425 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
426 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
428 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
430 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
433 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
434 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
435 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
436 Polo (Closes: #372497).
437 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
438 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
440 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
441 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
442 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
443 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
444 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
445 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
446 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
447 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
448 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
449 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
451 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
452 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
453 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
454 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
455 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
456 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
458 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
460 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
463 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
464 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
465 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
467 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
468 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
470 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
472 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
475 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
476 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
477 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
478 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
479 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
480 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
481 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
482 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
483 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
485 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
486 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
487 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
488 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
489 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
490 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
491 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
492 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
493 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
494 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
495 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
498 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
500 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
503 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
504 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
505 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
506 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
507 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
508 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
509 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
510 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
511 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
512 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
513 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
514 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
515 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
516 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
517 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
518 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
519 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
520 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
521 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
522 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
523 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
524 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
525 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
526 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
527 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
528 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
529 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
531 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
532 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
533 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
534 Hess (Closes: #362247).
535 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
536 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
537 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
538 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
539 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
540 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
541 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
542 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
543 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
544 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
545 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
546 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
548 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
549 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
551 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
552 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
553 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
554 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
555 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
556 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
557 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
558 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
559 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
560 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
561 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
563 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
565 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
569 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
570 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
571 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
572 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
573 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
574 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
575 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
576 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
577 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
578 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
579 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
580 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
582 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
583 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
584 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
585 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
586 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
587 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
588 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
589 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
590 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
591 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
592 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
593 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
594 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
595 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
596 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
597 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
598 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
599 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
600 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
603 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
605 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
608 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
609 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
610 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
612 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
613 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
614 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
615 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
617 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
619 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
623 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
624 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
625 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
626 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
627 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
628 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
629 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
630 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
631 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
633 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
634 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
635 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
637 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
638 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
639 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
640 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
641 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
642 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
643 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
645 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
646 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
647 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
648 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
650 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
651 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
652 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
653 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
654 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
655 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
656 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
657 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
659 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
660 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
661 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
662 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
663 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
664 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
665 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
666 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
667 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
668 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
669 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
670 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
671 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
672 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
673 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
674 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
675 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
677 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
679 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
682 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
683 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
684 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
685 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
686 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
687 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
688 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
689 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
690 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
692 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
693 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
694 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
695 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
696 this section. closes: Bug#248618
697 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
698 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
699 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
700 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
701 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
702 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
703 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
704 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
705 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
706 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
707 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
708 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
710 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
711 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
712 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
715 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
716 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
717 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
719 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
720 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
721 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
722 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
723 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
724 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
726 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
727 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
729 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
730 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
731 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
732 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
733 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
734 Closes: #185943, #237049
736 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
738 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
744 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
745 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
746 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
747 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
748 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
749 running. closes: Bug#187250
750 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
751 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
752 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
753 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
754 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
755 user closes: Bug#176506
757 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
759 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
763 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
764 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
765 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
766 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
767 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
768 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
769 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
770 deb-building toolchain.
771 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
772 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
773 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
774 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
775 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
776 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
777 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
778 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
779 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
780 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
781 sections about changelog files.
783 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
784 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
785 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
786 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
787 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
788 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
790 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
791 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
792 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
793 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
794 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
795 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
796 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
797 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
798 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
799 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
800 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
801 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
802 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
803 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
804 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
805 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
806 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
807 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
808 for the restructuring
810 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
812 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
817 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
818 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
819 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
820 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
821 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
822 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
824 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
825 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
826 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
827 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
828 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
829 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
830 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
832 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
833 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
834 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
835 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
837 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
839 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
843 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
844 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
845 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
846 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
847 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
849 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
850 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
851 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
852 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
854 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
855 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
856 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
857 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
858 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
859 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
860 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
861 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
862 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
864 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
865 script should start it, closes: #60979
866 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
867 "should", closes: #170019
868 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
869 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
870 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
871 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
872 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
873 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
874 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
875 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
878 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
880 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
884 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
885 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
886 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
887 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
888 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
889 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
890 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
891 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
893 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
894 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
895 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
896 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
897 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
898 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
899 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
900 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
901 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
903 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
904 file, closes: Bug#65764
906 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
908 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
911 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
912 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
913 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
914 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
915 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
916 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
917 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
918 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
919 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
920 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
921 details. closes: Bug#133030
922 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
923 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
926 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
928 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
931 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
932 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
933 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
934 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
935 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
936 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
937 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
938 not. closes: Bug#139820
939 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
940 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
941 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
942 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
943 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
944 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
945 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
946 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
947 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
948 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
950 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
952 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
953 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
954 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
955 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
956 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
957 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
958 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
959 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
960 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
961 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
962 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
963 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
964 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
965 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
966 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
967 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
968 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
969 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
970 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
971 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
973 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
974 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
975 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
976 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
977 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
978 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
979 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
981 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
982 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
983 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
984 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
985 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
986 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
987 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
988 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
989 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
991 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
993 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
996 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
997 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
998 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
999 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1000 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1001 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1002 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1003 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1004 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1005 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1006 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1007 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1008 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1009 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1010 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1011 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1012 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1013 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1014 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1015 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1016 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1017 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1019 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1021 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1024 medium, high, emergency.
1025 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1026 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1027 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1028 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1029 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1032 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1033 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1034 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1036 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1037 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1038 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1039 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1040 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1041 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1042 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1045 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1047 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1050 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1051 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1052 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1054 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1055 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1056 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1057 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1058 debian/rules to do this
1059 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1060 patches are incorporated upstream
1061 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1062 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1063 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1064 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1065 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1066 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1068 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1069 system closes: Bug#91249
1070 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1071 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1072 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1073 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1074 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1075 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1076 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1077 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1078 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1079 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1080 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1081 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1082 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1084 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1086 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1089 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1090 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1091 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1093 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1094 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1095 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1097 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1100 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1102 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1105 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1106 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1107 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1108 package for the time being
1109 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1110 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1111 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1112 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1113 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1114 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1115 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1116 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1117 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1118 Build-Depends arch syntax
1119 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1121 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1122 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1124 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1125 from policy maintenance duties.
1126 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1127 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1129 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1131 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1135 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1137 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1140 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1141 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1142 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1143 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1144 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1145 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1146 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1147 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1148 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1149 minor version number for this
1150 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1151 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1152 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1153 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1154 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1155 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1156 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1157 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1158 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1160 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1162 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1165 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1166 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1167 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1168 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1170 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1172 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1173 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1174 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1175 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1176 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1177 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1178 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1179 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1180 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1181 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1182 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1183 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1184 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1185 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1186 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1187 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1190 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1192 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1195 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1197 * Document the Enhances relationship
1198 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1199 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1200 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1201 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1202 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1203 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1205 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1207 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1208 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1209 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1210 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1212 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1213 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1214 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1215 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1216 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1218 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1220 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1223 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1224 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1226 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1227 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1228 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1229 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1230 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1231 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1232 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1233 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1234 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1236 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1238 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1240 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1243 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1244 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1245 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1246 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1247 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1248 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1249 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1250 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1251 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1252 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1253 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1254 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1255 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1256 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1257 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1258 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1259 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1260 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1261 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1262 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1263 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1265 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1266 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1268 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1270 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1273 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1274 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1275 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1276 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1277 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1278 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1279 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1280 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1281 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1282 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1283 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1284 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1285 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1286 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1287 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1288 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1289 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1290 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1291 list closes: Bug#53756
1292 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1293 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1294 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1295 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1296 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1297 policy closes: Bug#53760
1298 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1299 policy closes: Bug#53761
1300 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1301 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1302 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1303 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1304 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1305 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1306 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1307 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1308 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1309 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1310 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1312 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1313 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1314 to install with older fileutils.
1315 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1316 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1317 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1318 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1320 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1321 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1323 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1325 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1328 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1330 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1332 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1335 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1337 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1340 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1343 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1345 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1347 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1349 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1352 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1354 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1356 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1359 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1360 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1361 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1362 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1363 directoried (closes: #41547)
1364 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1365 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1366 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1367 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1368 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1369 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1370 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1371 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1372 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1373 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1374 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1376 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1377 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1378 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1379 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1380 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1381 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1382 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1384 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1385 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1386 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1387 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1389 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1391 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1393 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1394 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1396 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1398 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1401 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1403 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1405 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1408 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1410 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1411 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1412 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1413 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1414 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1415 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1416 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1417 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1418 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1419 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1420 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1421 this closes: Bug#38612
1422 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1423 before. closes: Bug#40864
1425 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1427 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1430 officially uploaded.
1431 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1433 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1434 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1435 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1437 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1438 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1439 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1440 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1441 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1442 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1444 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1445 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1446 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1448 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1450 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1451 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1452 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1453 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1454 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1456 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1458 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1461 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1462 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1463 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1464 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1465 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1466 there). closes: Bug#34233
1467 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1468 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1469 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1470 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1471 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1473 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1475 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1478 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1479 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1480 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1483 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1484 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1485 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1486 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1487 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1490 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1491 number. closes: BUG#25911
1493 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1494 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1495 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1496 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1497 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1498 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1500 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1501 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1502 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1505 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1506 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1507 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1509 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1510 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1511 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1512 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1514 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1515 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1516 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1518 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1520 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1521 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1522 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1523 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1524 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1525 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1526 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1527 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1530 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1532 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1533 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1536 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1538 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1542 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1544 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1547 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1548 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1549 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1550 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1551 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1552 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1553 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1555 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1556 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1558 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1560 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1562 * non-maintainer release
1563 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1564 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1566 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1567 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1568 * no content changes
1569 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1571 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1573 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1577 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1579 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1583 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1584 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1585 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1587 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1588 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1590 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1591 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1592 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1593 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1595 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1596 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1597 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1598 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1599 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1600 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1601 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1603 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1604 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1605 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1608 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1609 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1610 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1612 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1613 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1614 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1616 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1617 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1619 * New version numbering scheme:
1621 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1622 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1623 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1626 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1627 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1628 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1629 differ between the manuals.
1631 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1632 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1633 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1634 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1636 * Packaging changes:
1638 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1639 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1641 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1643 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1645 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1649 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1650 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1651 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1653 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1654 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1657 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1658 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1659 file extension as the referenced file
1661 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1662 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1664 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1665 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1666 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1667 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1670 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1671 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1672 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1674 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1675 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1676 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1677 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1680 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1681 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1684 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1685 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1686 reasonable default configuration
1688 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1689 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1690 by all news servers and clients
1692 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1693 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1694 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1695 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1696 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1698 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1699 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1702 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1704 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1705 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1707 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1710 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1711 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1713 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1714 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1716 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1718 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1720 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1723 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1724 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1725 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1727 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1729 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1730 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1731 * Don't use debstd anymore
1733 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1735 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1738 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1739 contrib/non-free policy
1740 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1741 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1742 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1743 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1744 - new section about `Daemons'
1745 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1746 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1747 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1748 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1749 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1750 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1751 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1752 * SGML source code included in package
1753 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1755 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1757 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1760 - completely reworked structure
1761 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1762 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1763 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1764 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1765 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1766 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1767 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1768 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1769 - mention "orphaned packages"
1770 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1771 distributions' policy
1772 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1773 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1774 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1775 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1776 - added section about arch spec strings
1777 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1778 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1779 - added section about "menus"
1780 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1781 the new documentation policy soon
1782 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1783 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1785 - added section about editors and pagers
1786 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1787 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1788 - added section about device files
1789 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1790 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1791 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1793 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1794 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1795 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1796 - Added new section about obsolete names
1797 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1798 * Fixed package's description
1800 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1802 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1806 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1808 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1811 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1812 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1813 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1815 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1817 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1820 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1821 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1823 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1824 and upload it "byhand" too.
1826 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1828 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1832 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1833 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1834 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1835 functionality must not have the same name.
1836 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1837 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1838 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1839 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1840 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1841 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1842 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1844 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1845 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1846 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1847 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1848 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1849 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1850 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1851 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1854 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1856 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1858 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1860 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1861 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1862 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1863 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1864 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1867 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1869 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1871 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1873 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1874 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1875 description of deb file format.
1876 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1877 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1879 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1881 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1882 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1884 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1886 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1888 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1889 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1890 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1891 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1892 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1893 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1894 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1895 packages in section on Procedure
1896 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1897 a package maintainer
1898 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1899 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1900 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1902 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1903 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1904 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1905 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1906 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1907 on various shlib files
1908 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1909 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1910 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1912 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1914 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1916 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1917 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1918 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1920 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1921 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1922 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1923 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1924 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1926 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1928 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1930 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1932 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1934 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1935 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1936 compatibility go in contrib.
1938 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1939 instructions in policy manual.
1940 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1943 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1945 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1947 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1948 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1949 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1950 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1952 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1953 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1956 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1958 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1960 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1961 * More detail about changelog format names.
1963 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1964 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1968 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1970 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1972 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1974 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1976 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1978 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1980 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1982 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1983 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1984 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1986 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1988 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1990 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1992 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1994 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1998 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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