1 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
4 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
8 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
11 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
12 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
13 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
14 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
16 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
18 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
19 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
20 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
21 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
22 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
24 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
25 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
26 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
27 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
28 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
29 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
30 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
31 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
32 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
33 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
34 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
35 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
36 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
37 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
38 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
39 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
41 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
43 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
44 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
45 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
46 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
47 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
48 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
49 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
50 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
52 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
54 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
57 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
58 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
59 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
60 Polo (Closes: #372497).
61 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
62 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
64 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
65 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
66 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
67 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
68 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
69 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
70 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
71 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
72 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
73 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
75 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
76 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
77 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
78 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
79 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
80 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
82 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
84 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
87 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
88 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
89 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
91 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
92 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
94 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
96 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
99 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
100 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
101 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
102 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
103 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
104 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
105 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
106 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
107 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
109 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
110 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
112 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
113 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
114 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
115 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
116 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
117 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
118 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
119 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
122 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
124 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
127 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
128 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
129 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
130 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
131 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
132 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
133 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
134 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
135 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
136 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
137 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
138 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
139 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
140 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
141 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
142 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
143 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
144 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
145 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
146 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
147 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
148 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
149 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
150 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
151 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
152 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
153 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
155 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
156 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
157 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
158 Hess (Closes: #362247).
159 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
160 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
161 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
162 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
163 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
164 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
165 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
166 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
167 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
168 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
169 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
170 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
172 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
173 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
175 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
176 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
178 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
179 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
180 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
181 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
182 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
183 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
184 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
185 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
187 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
189 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
193 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
194 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
195 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
196 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
197 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
198 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
199 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
200 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
201 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
202 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
203 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
204 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
206 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
207 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
208 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
209 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
210 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
211 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
212 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
213 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
214 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
215 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
216 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
217 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
218 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
219 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
220 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
221 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
222 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
224 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
227 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
229 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
232 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
233 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
234 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
236 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
237 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
238 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
239 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
241 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
243 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
247 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
248 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
249 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
250 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
252 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
253 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
254 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
255 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
257 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
258 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
259 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
261 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
262 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
263 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
265 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
266 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
267 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
269 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
270 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
271 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
272 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
274 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
275 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
276 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
277 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
278 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
279 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
280 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
281 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
284 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
285 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
286 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
287 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
288 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
289 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
290 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
291 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
292 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
293 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
294 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
295 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
296 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
297 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
298 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
299 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
301 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
303 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
306 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
307 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
308 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
309 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
310 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
311 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
312 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
313 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
314 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
316 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
317 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
318 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
319 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
320 this section. closes: Bug#248618
321 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
322 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
323 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
324 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
325 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
326 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
327 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
328 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
329 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
330 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
331 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
332 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
334 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
335 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
336 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
339 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
340 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
341 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
343 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
344 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
345 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
346 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
347 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
348 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
350 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
351 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
353 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
354 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
355 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
356 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
357 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
358 Closes: #185943, #237049
360 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
362 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
368 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
369 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
370 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
371 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
372 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
373 running. closes: Bug#187250
374 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
375 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
376 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
377 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
378 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
379 user closes: Bug#176506
381 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
383 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
387 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
388 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
389 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
390 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
391 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
392 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
393 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
394 deb-building toolchain.
395 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
396 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
397 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
398 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
399 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
400 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
401 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
402 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
403 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
404 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
405 sections about changelog files.
407 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
408 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
409 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
410 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
411 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
412 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
414 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
415 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
416 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
417 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
418 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
419 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
420 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
421 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
422 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
423 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
424 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
425 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
426 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
427 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
428 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
429 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
430 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
431 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
432 for the restructuring
434 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
436 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
441 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
442 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
443 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
444 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
445 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
446 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
448 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
449 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
450 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
451 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
452 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
453 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
454 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
456 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
457 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
458 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
459 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
461 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
463 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
467 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
468 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
469 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
470 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
471 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
473 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
474 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
475 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
476 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
478 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
479 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
480 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
481 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
482 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
483 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
484 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
485 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
486 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
488 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
489 script should start it, closes: #60979
490 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
491 "should", closes: #170019
492 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
493 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
494 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
495 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
496 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
497 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
498 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
499 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
502 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
504 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
508 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
509 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
510 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
511 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
512 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
513 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
514 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
515 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
517 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
518 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
519 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
520 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
521 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
522 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
523 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
524 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
525 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
527 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
528 file, closes: Bug#65764
530 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
532 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
535 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
536 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
537 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
538 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
539 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
540 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
541 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
542 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
543 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
544 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
545 details. closes: Bug#133030
546 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
547 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
550 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
552 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
555 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
556 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
557 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
558 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
559 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
560 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
561 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
562 not. closes: Bug#139820
563 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
564 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
565 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
566 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
567 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
568 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
569 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
570 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
571 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
572 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
574 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
576 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
577 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
578 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
579 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
580 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
581 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
582 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
583 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
584 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
585 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
586 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
587 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
588 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
589 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
590 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
591 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
592 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
593 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
594 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
595 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
597 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
598 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
599 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
600 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
601 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
602 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
603 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
605 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
606 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
607 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
608 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
609 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
610 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
611 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
612 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
613 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
615 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
617 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
620 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
621 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
622 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
623 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
624 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
625 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
626 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
627 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
628 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
629 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
630 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
631 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
632 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
633 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
634 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
635 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
636 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
637 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
638 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
639 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
640 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
641 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
643 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
645 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
648 medium, high, emergency.
649 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
650 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
651 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
652 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
653 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
656 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
657 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
658 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
660 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
661 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
662 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
663 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
664 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
665 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
666 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
669 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
671 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
674 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
675 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
676 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
678 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
679 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
680 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
681 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
682 debian/rules to do this
683 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
684 patches are incorporated upstream
685 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
686 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
687 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
688 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
689 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
690 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
692 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
693 system closes: Bug#91249
694 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
695 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
696 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
697 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
698 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
699 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
700 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
701 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
702 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
703 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
704 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
705 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
706 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
708 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
710 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
712 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
713 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
714 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
715 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
717 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
718 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
719 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
721 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
724 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
726 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
729 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
730 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
731 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
732 package for the time being
733 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
734 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
735 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
736 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
737 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
738 * Rename all .text files as .txt
739 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
740 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
741 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
742 Build-Depends arch syntax
743 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
745 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
746 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
748 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
749 from policy maintenance duties.
750 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
751 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
753 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
755 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
759 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
761 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
764 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
765 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
766 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
767 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
768 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
769 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
770 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
771 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
772 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
773 minor version number for this
774 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
775 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
776 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
777 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
778 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
779 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
780 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
781 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
782 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
784 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
786 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
788 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
789 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
790 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
791 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
792 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
794 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
796 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
797 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
798 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
799 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
800 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
801 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
802 xutils closes: Bug#82966
803 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
804 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
805 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
806 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
807 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
808 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
809 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
810 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
811 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
814 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
816 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
818 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
819 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
821 * Document the Enhances relationship
822 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
823 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
824 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
825 policy. closes: Bug#53496
826 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
827 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
829 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
831 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
832 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
833 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
834 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
836 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
837 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
838 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
839 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
840 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
842 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
844 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
847 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
848 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
850 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
851 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
852 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
853 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
854 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
855 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
856 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
857 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
858 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
860 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
862 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
864 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
866 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
867 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
868 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
869 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
870 policy. closes: Bug#64437
871 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
872 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
873 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
874 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
875 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
876 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
877 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
878 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
879 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
880 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
881 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
882 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
883 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
884 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
885 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
886 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
887 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
889 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
890 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
892 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
894 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
897 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
898 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
899 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
900 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
901 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
902 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
903 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
904 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
905 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
906 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
907 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
908 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
909 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
910 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
911 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
912 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
913 alternative closes: Bug#53755
914 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
915 list closes: Bug#53756
916 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
917 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
918 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
919 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
920 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
921 policy closes: Bug#53760
922 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
923 policy closes: Bug#53761
924 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
925 that use X closes: Bug#53762
926 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
927 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
928 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
929 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
930 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
931 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
932 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
933 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
934 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
936 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
937 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
938 to install with older fileutils.
939 * Installed FHS version 2.1
940 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
941 * Added FHS details to copyright file
942 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
944 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
945 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
947 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
949 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
952 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
954 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
956 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
959 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
961 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
964 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
967 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
969 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
971 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
973 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
976 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
978 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
980 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
983 #45561, #42447, #48570)
984 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
985 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
986 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
987 directoried (closes: #41547)
988 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
989 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
990 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
991 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
992 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
993 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
994 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
995 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
996 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
997 package criteria (closes: #45318)
998 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1000 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1001 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1002 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1003 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1004 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1005 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1006 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1008 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1009 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1010 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1011 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1013 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1015 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1017 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1018 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1020 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1022 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1025 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1027 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1029 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1032 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1034 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1035 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1036 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1037 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1038 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1039 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1040 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1041 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1042 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1043 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1044 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1045 this closes: Bug#38612
1046 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1047 before. closes: Bug#40864
1049 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1051 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1054 officially uploaded.
1055 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1057 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1058 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1059 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1061 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1062 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1063 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1064 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1065 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1066 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1068 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1069 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1070 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1072 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1074 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1075 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1076 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1077 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1078 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1080 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1082 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1085 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1086 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1087 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1088 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1089 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1090 there). closes: Bug#34233
1091 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1092 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1093 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1094 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1095 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1097 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1099 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1102 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1103 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1104 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1107 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1108 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1109 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1110 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1111 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1114 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1115 number. closes: BUG#25911
1117 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1118 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1119 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1120 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1121 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1122 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1124 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1125 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1126 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1129 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1130 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1131 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1133 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1134 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1135 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1136 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1138 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1139 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1140 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1142 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1144 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1145 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1146 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1147 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1148 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1149 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1150 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1151 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1154 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1156 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1157 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1160 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1162 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1166 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1168 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1171 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1172 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1173 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1174 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1175 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1176 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1177 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1179 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1180 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1182 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1184 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1186 * non-maintainer release
1187 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1188 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1190 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1191 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1192 * no content changes
1193 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1195 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1197 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1201 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1203 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1207 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1208 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1209 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1211 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1212 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1214 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1215 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1216 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1217 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1219 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1220 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1221 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1222 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1223 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1224 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1225 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1227 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1228 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1229 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1232 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1233 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1234 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1236 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1237 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1238 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1240 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1241 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1243 * New version numbering scheme:
1245 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1246 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1247 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1250 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1251 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1252 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1253 differ between the manuals.
1255 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1256 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1257 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1258 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1260 * Packaging changes:
1262 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1263 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1265 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1267 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1269 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1273 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1274 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1275 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1277 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1278 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1281 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1282 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1283 file extension as the referenced file
1285 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1286 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1288 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1289 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1290 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1291 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1294 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1295 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1296 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1298 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1299 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1300 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1301 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1304 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1305 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1308 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1309 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1310 reasonable default configuration
1312 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1313 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1314 by all news servers and clients
1316 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1317 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1318 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1319 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1320 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1322 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1323 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1326 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1328 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1329 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1331 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1334 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1335 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1337 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1338 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1340 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1342 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1344 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1347 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1348 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1349 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1351 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1353 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1354 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1355 * Don't use debstd anymore
1357 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1359 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1362 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1363 contrib/non-free policy
1364 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1365 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1366 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1367 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1368 - new section about `Daemons'
1369 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1370 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1371 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1372 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1373 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1374 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1375 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1376 * SGML source code included in package
1377 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1379 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1381 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1384 - completely reworked structure
1385 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1386 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1387 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1388 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1389 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1390 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1391 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1392 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1393 - mention "orphaned packages"
1394 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1395 distributions' policy
1396 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1397 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1398 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1399 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1400 - added section about arch spec strings
1401 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1402 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1403 - added section about "menus"
1404 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1405 the new documentation policy soon
1406 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1407 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1409 - added section about editors and pagers
1410 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1411 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1412 - added section about device files
1413 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1414 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1415 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1417 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1418 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1419 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1420 - Added new section about obsolete names
1421 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1422 * Fixed package's description
1424 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1426 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1430 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1432 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1435 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1436 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1437 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1439 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1441 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1444 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1445 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1447 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1448 and upload it "byhand" too.
1450 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1452 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1456 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1457 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1458 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1459 functionality must not have the same name.
1460 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1461 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1462 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1463 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1464 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1465 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1466 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1468 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1469 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1470 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1471 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1472 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1473 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1474 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1475 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1478 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1480 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1482 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1484 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1485 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1486 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1487 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1488 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1491 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1493 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1495 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1497 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1498 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1499 description of deb file format.
1500 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1501 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1503 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1505 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1506 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1508 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1510 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1512 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1513 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1514 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1515 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1516 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1517 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1518 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1519 packages in section on Procedure
1520 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1521 a package maintainer
1522 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1523 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1524 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1526 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1527 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1528 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1529 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1530 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1531 on various shlib files
1532 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1533 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1534 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1536 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1538 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1540 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1541 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1542 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1544 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1545 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1546 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1547 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1548 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1550 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1552 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1554 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1556 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1558 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1559 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1560 compatibility go in contrib.
1562 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1563 instructions in policy manual.
1564 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1567 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1569 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1571 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1572 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1573 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1574 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1576 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1577 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1580 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1582 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1584 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1585 * More detail about changelog format names.
1587 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1588 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1592 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1594 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1596 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1598 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1600 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1602 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1604 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1606 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1607 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1608 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1610 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1612 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1614 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1616 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1618 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1622 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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