1 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
8 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
9 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
13 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
14 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
15 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
16 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
18 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:48 -0700
20 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
24 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
27 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
28 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
30 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
31 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
35 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
36 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
40 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
41 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
45 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
46 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
47 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
48 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
52 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
53 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
54 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
55 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
56 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
58 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
59 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
63 * Add myself to Uploaders.
66 * Add myself to Uploaders.
67 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
69 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
70 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
71 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
73 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
75 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
78 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
83 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
85 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
87 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
88 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
92 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
93 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
95 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
97 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
98 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
102 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
103 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
107 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
108 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
110 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
112 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
113 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
115 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
117 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
118 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
119 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
122 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
123 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
127 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
128 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
131 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
133 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
134 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
135 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
136 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
137 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
138 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
139 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
140 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
141 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
142 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
143 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
144 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
145 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
146 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
147 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
148 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
149 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
150 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
151 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
152 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
153 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
154 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
155 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
156 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
157 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
158 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
159 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
160 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
161 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
162 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
164 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
165 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
166 links was completed long ago.
167 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
169 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
171 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
174 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
176 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
178 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
181 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
182 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
183 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
184 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
185 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
186 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
187 Millan (Closes: #209008).
188 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
189 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
191 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
193 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
195 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
196 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
197 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
198 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
199 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
200 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
201 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
203 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
204 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
205 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
206 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
208 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
209 Küster (Closes: #403391).
210 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
211 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
212 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
213 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
214 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
215 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
219 Closes: #186700, #458910
220 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
221 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
225 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
226 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
227 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
228 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
229 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
230 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
231 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
233 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
234 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
236 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
237 * Add an md5sums control file.
238 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
239 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
240 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
241 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
242 currently part of policy.
243 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
244 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
245 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
248 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
250 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
253 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
254 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
255 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
256 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
257 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
258 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
259 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
260 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
261 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
262 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
263 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
264 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
265 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
266 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
267 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
269 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
271 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
272 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
273 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
275 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
276 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
277 list?" (Closes: #412634).
278 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
279 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
280 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
281 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
282 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
283 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
284 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
285 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
286 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
287 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
288 debconf specification.
289 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
290 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
292 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
294 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
297 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
298 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
299 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
300 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
302 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
304 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
305 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
306 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
307 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
308 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
310 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
311 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
312 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
313 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
314 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
315 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
316 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
317 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
318 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
319 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
320 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
321 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
322 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
323 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
324 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
325 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
327 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
329 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
330 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
331 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
332 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
334 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
335 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
336 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
338 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
340 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
343 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
344 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
345 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
346 Polo (Closes: #372497).
347 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
348 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
350 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
351 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
352 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
353 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
354 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
355 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
356 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
357 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
358 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
359 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
361 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
362 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
363 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
364 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
365 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
366 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
368 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
370 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
373 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
374 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
375 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
377 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
378 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
380 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
382 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
385 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
386 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
387 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
388 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
389 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
390 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
391 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
392 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
393 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
395 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
396 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
397 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
398 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
399 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
400 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
401 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
402 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
403 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
404 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
405 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
408 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
410 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
413 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
414 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
415 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
416 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
417 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
418 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
419 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
420 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
421 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
422 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
423 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
424 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
425 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
426 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
427 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
428 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
429 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
430 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
431 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
432 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
433 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
434 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
435 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
436 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
437 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
438 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
439 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
441 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
442 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
443 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
444 Hess (Closes: #362247).
445 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
446 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
447 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
448 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
449 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
450 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
451 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
452 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
453 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
454 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
455 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
456 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
458 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
459 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
461 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
462 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
463 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
464 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
465 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
466 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
467 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
468 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
469 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
470 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
471 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
473 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
475 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
479 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
480 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
481 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
482 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
483 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
484 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
485 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
486 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
487 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
488 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
489 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
490 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
492 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
493 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
494 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
495 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
496 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
497 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
498 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
499 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
500 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
501 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
502 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
503 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
504 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
505 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
506 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
507 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
508 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
509 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
510 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
513 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
515 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
518 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
519 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
520 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
522 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
523 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
524 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
525 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
527 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
529 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
533 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
534 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
535 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
536 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
537 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
538 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
539 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
540 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
541 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
543 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
544 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
545 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
547 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
548 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
549 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
550 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
551 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
552 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
553 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
555 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
556 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
557 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
558 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
560 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
561 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
562 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
563 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
564 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
565 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
566 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
567 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
569 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
570 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
571 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
572 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
573 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
574 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
575 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
576 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
577 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
578 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
579 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
580 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
581 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
582 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
583 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
584 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
585 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
587 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
589 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
592 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
593 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
594 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
595 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
596 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
597 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
598 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
599 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
600 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
602 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
603 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
604 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
605 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
606 this section. closes: Bug#248618
607 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
608 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
609 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
610 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
611 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
612 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
613 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
614 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
615 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
616 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
617 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
618 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
620 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
621 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
622 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
625 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
626 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
627 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
629 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
630 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
631 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
632 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
633 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
634 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
636 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
637 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
639 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
640 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
641 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
642 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
643 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
644 Closes: #185943, #237049
646 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
648 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
654 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
655 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
656 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
657 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
658 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
659 running. closes: Bug#187250
660 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
661 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
662 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
663 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
664 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
665 user closes: Bug#176506
667 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
669 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
673 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
674 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
675 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
676 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
677 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
678 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
679 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
680 deb-building toolchain.
681 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
682 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
683 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
684 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
685 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
686 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
687 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
688 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
689 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
690 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
691 sections about changelog files.
693 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
694 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
695 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
696 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
697 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
698 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
700 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
701 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
702 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
703 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
704 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
705 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
706 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
707 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
708 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
709 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
710 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
711 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
712 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
713 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
714 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
715 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
716 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
717 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
718 for the restructuring
720 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
722 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
727 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
728 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
729 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
730 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
731 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
732 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
734 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
735 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
736 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
737 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
738 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
739 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
740 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
742 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
743 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
744 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
745 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
747 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
749 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
753 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
754 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
755 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
756 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
757 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
759 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
760 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
761 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
762 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
764 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
765 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
766 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
767 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
768 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
769 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
770 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
771 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
772 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
774 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
775 script should start it, closes: #60979
776 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
777 "should", closes: #170019
778 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
779 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
780 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
781 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
782 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
783 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
784 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
785 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
788 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
790 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
794 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
795 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
796 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
797 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
798 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
799 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
800 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
801 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
803 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
804 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
805 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
806 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
807 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
808 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
809 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
810 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
811 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
813 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
814 file, closes: Bug#65764
816 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
818 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
821 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
822 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
823 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
824 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
825 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
826 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
827 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
828 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
829 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
830 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
831 details. closes: Bug#133030
832 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
833 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
836 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
838 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
841 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
842 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
843 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
844 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
845 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
846 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
847 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
848 not. closes: Bug#139820
849 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
850 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
851 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
852 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
853 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
854 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
855 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
856 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
857 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
858 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
860 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
862 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
863 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
864 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
865 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
866 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
867 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
868 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
869 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
870 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
871 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
872 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
873 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
874 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
875 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
876 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
877 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
878 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
879 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
880 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
881 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
883 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
884 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
885 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
886 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
887 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
888 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
889 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
891 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
892 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
893 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
894 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
895 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
896 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
897 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
898 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
899 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
901 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
903 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
906 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
907 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
908 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
909 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
910 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
911 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
912 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
913 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
914 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
915 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
916 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
917 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
918 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
919 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
920 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
921 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
922 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
923 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
924 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
925 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
926 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
927 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
929 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
931 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
934 medium, high, emergency.
935 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
936 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
937 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
938 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
939 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
942 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
943 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
944 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
946 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
947 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
948 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
949 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
950 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
951 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
952 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
955 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
957 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
960 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
961 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
962 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
964 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
965 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
966 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
967 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
968 debian/rules to do this
969 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
970 patches are incorporated upstream
971 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
972 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
973 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
974 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
975 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
976 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
978 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
979 system closes: Bug#91249
980 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
981 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
982 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
983 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
984 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
985 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
986 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
987 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
988 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
989 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
990 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
991 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
992 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
994 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
996 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
998 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
999 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1000 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1001 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1003 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1004 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1005 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1007 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1010 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1012 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1015 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1016 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1017 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1018 package for the time being
1019 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1020 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1021 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1022 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1023 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1024 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1025 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1026 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1027 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1028 Build-Depends arch syntax
1029 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1031 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1032 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1034 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1035 from policy maintenance duties.
1036 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1037 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1039 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1041 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1045 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1047 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1050 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1051 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1052 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1053 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1054 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1055 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1056 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1057 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1058 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1059 minor version number for this
1060 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1061 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1062 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1063 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1064 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1065 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1066 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1067 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1068 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1070 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1072 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1075 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1076 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1077 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1078 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1080 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1082 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1083 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1084 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1085 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1086 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1087 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1088 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1089 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1090 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1091 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1092 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1093 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1094 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1095 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1096 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1097 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1100 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1102 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1105 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1107 * Document the Enhances relationship
1108 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1109 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1110 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1111 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1112 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1113 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1115 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1117 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1118 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1119 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1120 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1122 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1123 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1124 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1125 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1126 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1128 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1130 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1133 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1134 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1136 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1137 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1138 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1139 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1140 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1141 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1142 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1143 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1144 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1146 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1148 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1150 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1153 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1154 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1155 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1156 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1157 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1158 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1159 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1160 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1161 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1162 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1163 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1164 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1165 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1166 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1167 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1168 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1169 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1170 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1171 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1172 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1173 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1175 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1176 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1178 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1180 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1183 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1184 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1185 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1186 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1187 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1188 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1189 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1190 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1191 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1192 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1193 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1194 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1195 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1196 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1197 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1198 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1199 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1200 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1201 list closes: Bug#53756
1202 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1203 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1204 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1205 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1206 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1207 policy closes: Bug#53760
1208 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1209 policy closes: Bug#53761
1210 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1211 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1212 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1213 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1214 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1215 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1216 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1217 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1218 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1219 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1220 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1222 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1223 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1224 to install with older fileutils.
1225 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1226 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1227 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1228 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1230 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1231 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1233 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1235 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1238 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1240 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1242 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1245 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1247 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1250 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1253 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1255 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1257 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1259 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1262 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1264 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1266 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1269 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1270 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1271 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1272 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1273 directoried (closes: #41547)
1274 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1275 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1276 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1277 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1278 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1279 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1280 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1281 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1282 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1283 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1284 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1286 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1287 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1288 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1289 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1290 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1291 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1292 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1294 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1295 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1296 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1297 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1299 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1301 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1303 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1304 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1306 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1308 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1311 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1313 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1315 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1318 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1320 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1321 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1322 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1323 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1324 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1325 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1326 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1327 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1328 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1329 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1330 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1331 this closes: Bug#38612
1332 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1333 before. closes: Bug#40864
1335 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1337 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1340 officially uploaded.
1341 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1343 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1344 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1345 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1347 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1348 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1349 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1350 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1351 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1352 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1354 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1355 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1356 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1358 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1360 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1361 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1362 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1363 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1364 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1366 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1368 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1371 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1372 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1373 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1374 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1375 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1376 there). closes: Bug#34233
1377 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1378 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1379 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1380 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1381 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1383 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1385 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1388 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1389 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1390 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1393 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1394 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1395 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1396 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1397 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1400 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1401 number. closes: BUG#25911
1403 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1404 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1405 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1406 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1407 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1408 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1410 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1411 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1412 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1415 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1416 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1417 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1419 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1420 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1421 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1422 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1424 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1425 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1426 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1428 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1430 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1431 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1432 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1433 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1434 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1435 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1436 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1437 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1440 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1442 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1443 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1446 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1448 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1452 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1454 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1457 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1458 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1459 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1460 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1461 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1462 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1463 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1465 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1466 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1468 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1470 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1472 * non-maintainer release
1473 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1474 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1476 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1477 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1478 * no content changes
1479 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1481 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1483 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1487 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1489 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1493 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1494 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1495 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1497 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1498 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1500 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1501 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1502 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1503 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1505 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1506 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1507 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1508 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1509 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1510 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1511 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1513 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1514 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1515 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1518 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1519 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1520 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1522 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1523 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1524 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1526 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1527 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1529 * New version numbering scheme:
1531 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1532 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1533 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1536 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1537 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1538 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1539 differ between the manuals.
1541 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1542 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1543 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1544 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1546 * Packaging changes:
1548 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1549 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1551 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1553 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1555 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1559 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1560 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1561 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1563 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1564 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1567 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1568 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1569 file extension as the referenced file
1571 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1572 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1574 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1575 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1576 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1577 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1580 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1581 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1582 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1584 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1585 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1586 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1587 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1590 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1591 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1594 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1595 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1596 reasonable default configuration
1598 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1599 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1600 by all news servers and clients
1602 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1603 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1604 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1605 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1606 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1608 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1609 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1612 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1614 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1615 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1617 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1620 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1621 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1623 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1624 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1626 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1628 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1630 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1633 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1634 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1635 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1637 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1639 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1640 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1641 * Don't use debstd anymore
1643 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1645 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1648 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1649 contrib/non-free policy
1650 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1651 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1652 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1653 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1654 - new section about `Daemons'
1655 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1656 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1657 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1658 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1659 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1660 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1661 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1662 * SGML source code included in package
1663 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1665 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1667 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1670 - completely reworked structure
1671 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1672 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1673 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1674 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1675 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1676 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1677 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1678 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1679 - mention "orphaned packages"
1680 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1681 distributions' policy
1682 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1683 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1684 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1685 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1686 - added section about arch spec strings
1687 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1688 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1689 - added section about "menus"
1690 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1691 the new documentation policy soon
1692 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1693 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1695 - added section about editors and pagers
1696 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1697 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1698 - added section about device files
1699 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1700 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1701 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1703 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1704 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1705 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1706 - Added new section about obsolete names
1707 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1708 * Fixed package's description
1710 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1712 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1716 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1718 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1721 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1722 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1723 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1725 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1727 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1730 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1731 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1733 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1734 and upload it "byhand" too.
1736 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1738 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1742 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1743 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1744 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1745 functionality must not have the same name.
1746 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1747 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1748 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1749 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1750 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1751 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1752 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1754 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1755 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1756 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1757 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1758 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1759 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1760 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1761 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1764 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1766 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1768 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1770 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1771 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1772 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1773 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1774 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1777 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1779 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1781 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1783 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1784 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1785 description of deb file format.
1786 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1787 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1789 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1791 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1792 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1794 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1796 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1798 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1799 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1800 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1801 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1802 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1803 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1804 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1805 packages in section on Procedure
1806 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1807 a package maintainer
1808 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1809 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1810 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1812 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1813 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1814 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1815 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1816 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1817 on various shlib files
1818 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1819 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1820 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1822 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1824 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1826 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1827 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1828 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1830 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1831 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1832 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1833 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1834 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1836 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1838 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1840 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1842 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1844 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1845 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1846 compatibility go in contrib.
1848 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1849 instructions in policy manual.
1850 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1853 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1855 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1857 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1858 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1859 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1860 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1862 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1863 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1866 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1868 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1870 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1871 * More detail about changelog format names.
1873 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1874 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1878 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1880 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1882 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1884 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1886 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1888 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1890 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1892 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1893 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1894 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1896 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1898 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1900 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1902 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1904 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1908 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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