1 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
9 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
10 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
16 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
17 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
18 * Add Pre-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep to the relationships not
19 allowed from main to contrib or non-free and mention that such
20 relationships are okay if the non-free package is only an
21 alternative. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #587279)
23 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
25 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
31 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
34 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
35 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
36 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
37 and distribution license' (three times).
38 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
39 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
44 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
46 Proposed by Santiago Vila
47 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
54 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
55 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
59 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
60 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
61 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
64 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
66 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
67 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
71 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
72 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
75 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
77 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
78 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
81 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
83 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
84 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
87 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
89 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
90 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
91 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
94 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
95 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
100 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
101 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
105 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
106 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
110 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
111 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
112 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
116 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
117 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
118 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
121 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
122 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
127 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
128 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
132 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
133 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
134 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
135 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
136 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
137 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
138 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
139 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
140 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
141 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
142 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
143 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
144 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
145 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
146 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
147 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
148 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
149 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
150 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
151 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
152 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
153 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
154 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
155 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
156 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
157 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
158 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
159 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
160 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
161 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
162 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
163 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
165 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
167 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
169 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
173 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
175 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
176 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
180 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
183 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
184 Wording: Steve Langasek.
185 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
186 Seconded: Julien Cristau
187 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
190 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
191 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
192 Seconded: Russ Allbery
193 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
196 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
197 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
198 Seconded: Russ Allbery
200 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
201 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
202 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
203 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
204 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
205 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
206 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
207 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
210 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
211 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
212 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
213 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
214 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
215 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
216 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
218 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
219 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
220 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
221 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
222 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
223 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
224 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
227 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
228 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
229 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
230 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
231 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
233 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
236 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
237 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
240 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
241 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
244 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
246 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
249 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
253 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
254 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
258 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
259 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
263 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
264 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
267 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
268 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
270 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
271 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
276 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
277 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
281 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
282 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
286 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
287 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
291 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
292 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
296 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
297 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
301 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
302 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
303 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
304 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
305 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
306 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
307 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
308 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
309 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
310 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
311 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
312 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
313 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
314 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
315 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
317 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
318 Source field descriptions.
319 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
320 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
321 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
322 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
323 description says otherwise.
325 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
327 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
331 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
334 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
335 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
337 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
338 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
342 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
343 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
347 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
348 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
352 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
353 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
354 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
355 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
359 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
360 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
361 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
362 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
363 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
365 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
366 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
370 * Add myself to Uploaders.
373 * Add myself to Uploaders.
374 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
376 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
377 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
378 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
380 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
382 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
385 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
389 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
390 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
392 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
394 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
395 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
399 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
400 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
402 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
404 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
405 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
409 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
410 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
414 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
415 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
417 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
419 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
420 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
422 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
424 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
425 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
426 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
429 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
430 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
434 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
435 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
438 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
440 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
441 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
442 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
443 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
444 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
445 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
446 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
447 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
448 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
449 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
450 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
451 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
452 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
453 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
454 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
455 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
456 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
457 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
458 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
459 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
460 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
461 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
462 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
463 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
464 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
465 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
466 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
467 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
468 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
469 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
471 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
472 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
473 links was completed long ago.
474 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
476 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
478 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
481 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
483 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
485 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
488 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
489 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
490 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
491 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
492 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
493 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
494 Millan (Closes: #209008).
495 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
496 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
498 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
500 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
502 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
503 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
504 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
505 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
506 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
507 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
508 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
510 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
511 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
512 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
513 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
515 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
516 Küster (Closes: #403391).
517 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
518 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
519 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
520 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
521 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
522 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
526 Closes: #186700, #458910
527 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
528 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
532 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
533 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
534 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
535 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
536 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
537 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
538 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
540 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
541 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
543 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
544 * Add an md5sums control file.
545 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
546 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
547 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
548 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
549 currently part of policy.
550 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
551 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
552 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
555 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
557 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
560 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
561 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
562 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
563 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
564 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
565 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
566 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
567 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
568 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
569 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
570 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
571 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
572 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
573 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
574 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
576 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
578 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
579 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
580 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
582 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
583 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
584 list?" (Closes: #412634).
585 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
586 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
587 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
588 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
589 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
590 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
591 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
592 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
593 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
594 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
595 debconf specification.
596 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
597 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
599 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
601 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
604 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
605 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
606 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
607 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
609 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
611 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
612 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
613 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
614 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
615 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
617 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
618 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
619 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
620 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
621 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
622 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
623 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
624 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
625 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
626 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
627 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
628 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
629 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
630 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
631 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
632 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
634 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
636 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
637 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
638 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
639 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
640 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
641 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
642 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
643 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
645 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
647 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
650 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
651 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
652 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
653 Polo (Closes: #372497).
654 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
655 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
657 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
658 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
659 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
660 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
661 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
662 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
663 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
664 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
665 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
666 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
668 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
669 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
670 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
671 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
672 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
673 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
675 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
677 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
680 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
681 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
682 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
684 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
685 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
687 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
689 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
692 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
693 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
694 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
695 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
696 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
697 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
698 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
699 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
700 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
702 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
703 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
704 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
705 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
706 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
707 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
708 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
709 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
710 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
711 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
712 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
715 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
717 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
720 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
721 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
722 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
723 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
724 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
725 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
726 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
727 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
728 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
729 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
730 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
731 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
732 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
733 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
734 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
735 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
736 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
737 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
738 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
739 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
740 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
741 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
742 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
743 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
744 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
745 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
746 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
748 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
749 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
750 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
751 Hess (Closes: #362247).
752 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
753 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
754 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
755 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
756 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
757 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
758 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
759 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
760 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
761 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
762 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
763 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
765 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
766 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
768 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
769 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
770 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
771 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
772 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
773 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
774 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
775 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
776 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
777 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
778 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
780 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
782 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
786 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
787 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
788 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
789 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
790 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
791 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
792 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
793 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
794 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
795 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
796 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
797 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
799 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
800 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
801 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
802 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
803 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
804 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
805 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
806 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
807 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
808 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
809 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
810 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
811 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
812 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
813 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
814 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
815 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
816 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
817 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
820 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
822 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
825 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
826 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
827 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
829 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
830 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
831 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
832 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
834 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
836 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
840 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
841 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
842 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
843 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
844 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
845 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
846 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
847 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
848 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
850 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
851 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
852 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
854 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
855 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
856 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
857 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
858 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
859 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
860 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
862 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
863 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
864 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
865 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
867 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
868 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
869 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
870 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
871 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
872 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
873 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
874 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
876 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
877 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
878 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
879 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
880 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
881 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
882 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
883 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
884 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
885 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
886 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
887 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
888 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
889 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
890 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
891 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
892 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
894 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
896 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
899 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
900 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
901 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
902 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
903 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
904 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
905 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
906 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
907 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
909 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
910 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
911 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
912 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
913 this section. closes: Bug#248618
914 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
915 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
916 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
917 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
918 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
919 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
920 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
921 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
922 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
923 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
924 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
925 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
927 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
928 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
929 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
932 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
933 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
934 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
936 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
937 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
938 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
939 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
940 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
941 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
943 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
944 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
946 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
947 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
948 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
949 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
950 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
951 Closes: #185943, #237049
953 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
955 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
961 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
962 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
963 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
964 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
965 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
966 running. closes: Bug#187250
967 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
968 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
969 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
970 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
971 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
972 user closes: Bug#176506
974 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
976 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
980 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
981 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
982 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
983 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
984 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
985 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
986 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
987 deb-building toolchain.
988 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
989 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
990 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
991 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
992 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
993 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
994 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
995 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
996 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
997 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
998 sections about changelog files.
1000 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1001 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1002 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1003 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1004 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1005 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1007 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1008 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1009 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1010 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1011 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1012 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1013 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1014 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1015 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1016 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1017 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1018 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1019 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1020 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1021 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1022 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1023 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1024 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1025 for the restructuring
1027 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1029 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1034 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1035 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1036 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1037 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1038 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1039 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1041 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1042 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1043 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1044 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1045 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1046 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1047 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1049 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1050 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1051 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1052 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1054 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1056 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1060 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1061 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1062 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1063 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1064 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1066 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1067 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1068 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1069 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1071 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1072 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1073 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1074 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1075 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1076 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1077 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1078 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1079 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1080 offtopic stuff, too.
1081 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1082 script should start it, closes: #60979
1083 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1084 "should", closes: #170019
1085 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1086 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1087 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1088 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1089 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1090 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1091 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1092 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1095 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1097 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1101 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1102 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1103 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1104 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1105 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1106 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1107 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1108 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1110 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1111 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1112 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1113 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1114 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1115 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1116 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1117 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1118 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1120 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1121 file, closes: Bug#65764
1123 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1125 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1128 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1129 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1130 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1131 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1132 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1133 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1134 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1135 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1136 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1137 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1138 details. closes: Bug#133030
1139 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1140 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1141 parts of Bug#161455.
1143 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1145 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1148 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1149 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1150 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1151 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1152 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1153 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1154 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1155 not. closes: Bug#139820
1156 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1157 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1158 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1159 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1160 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1161 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1162 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1163 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1164 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1165 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1167 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1169 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1170 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1171 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1172 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1173 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1174 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1175 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1176 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1177 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1178 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1179 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1180 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1181 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1182 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1183 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1184 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1185 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1186 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1187 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1188 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1190 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1191 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1192 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1193 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1194 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1195 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1196 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1198 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1199 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1200 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1201 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1202 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1203 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1204 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1205 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1206 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1208 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1210 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1213 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1214 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1215 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1216 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1217 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1218 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1219 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1220 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1221 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1222 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1223 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1224 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1225 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1226 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1227 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1228 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1229 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1230 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1231 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1232 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1233 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1234 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1236 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1238 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1241 medium, high, emergency.
1242 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1243 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1244 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1245 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1246 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1249 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1250 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1251 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1253 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1254 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1255 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1256 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1257 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1258 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1259 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1262 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1264 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1267 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1268 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1269 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1271 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1272 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1273 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1274 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1275 debian/rules to do this
1276 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1277 patches are incorporated upstream
1278 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1279 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1280 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1281 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1282 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1283 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1285 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1286 system closes: Bug#91249
1287 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1288 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1289 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1290 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1291 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1292 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1293 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1294 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1295 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1296 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1297 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1298 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1299 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1301 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1303 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1306 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1307 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1308 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1310 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1311 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1312 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1314 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1317 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1319 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1322 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1323 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1324 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1325 package for the time being
1326 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1327 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1328 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1329 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1330 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1331 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1332 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1333 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1334 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1335 Build-Depends arch syntax
1336 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1338 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1339 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1341 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1342 from policy maintenance duties.
1343 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1344 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1346 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1348 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1352 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1354 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1357 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1358 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1359 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1360 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1361 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1362 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1363 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1364 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1365 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1366 minor version number for this
1367 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1368 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1369 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1370 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1371 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1372 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1373 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1374 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1375 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1377 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1379 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1382 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1383 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1384 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1385 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1387 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1389 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1390 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1391 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1392 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1393 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1394 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1395 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1396 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1397 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1398 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1399 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1400 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1401 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1402 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1403 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1404 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1407 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1409 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1412 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1414 * Document the Enhances relationship
1415 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1416 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1417 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1418 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1419 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1420 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1422 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1424 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1425 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1426 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1427 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1429 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1430 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1431 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1432 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1433 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1435 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1437 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1440 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1441 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1443 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1444 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1445 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1446 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1447 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1448 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1449 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1450 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1451 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1453 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1455 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1457 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1460 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1461 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1462 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1463 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1464 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1465 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1466 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1467 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1468 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1469 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1470 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1471 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1472 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1473 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1474 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1475 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1476 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1477 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1478 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1479 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1480 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1482 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1483 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1485 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1487 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1490 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1491 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1492 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1493 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1494 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1495 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1496 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1497 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1498 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1499 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1500 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1501 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1502 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1503 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1504 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1505 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1506 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1507 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1508 list closes: Bug#53756
1509 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1510 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1511 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1512 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1513 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1514 policy closes: Bug#53760
1515 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1516 policy closes: Bug#53761
1517 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1518 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1519 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1520 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1521 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1522 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1523 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1524 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1525 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1526 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1527 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1529 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1530 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1531 to install with older fileutils.
1532 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1533 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1534 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1535 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1537 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1538 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1540 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1542 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1545 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1547 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1549 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1552 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1554 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1557 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1560 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1562 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1564 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1566 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1569 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1571 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1573 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1576 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1577 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1578 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1579 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1580 directoried (closes: #41547)
1581 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1582 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1583 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1584 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1585 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1586 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1587 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1588 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1589 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1590 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1591 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1593 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1594 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1595 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1596 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1597 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1598 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1599 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1601 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1602 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1603 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1604 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1606 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1608 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1610 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1611 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1613 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1615 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1618 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1620 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1622 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1625 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1627 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1628 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1629 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1630 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1631 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1632 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1633 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1634 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1635 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1636 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1637 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1638 this closes: Bug#38612
1639 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1640 before. closes: Bug#40864
1642 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1644 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1647 officially uploaded.
1648 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1650 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1651 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1652 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1654 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1655 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1656 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1657 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1658 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1659 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1661 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1662 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1663 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1665 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1667 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1668 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1669 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1670 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1671 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1673 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1675 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1678 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1679 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1680 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1681 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1682 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1683 there). closes: Bug#34233
1684 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1685 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1686 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1687 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1688 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1690 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1692 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1695 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1696 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1697 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1700 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1701 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1702 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1703 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1704 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1707 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1708 number. closes: BUG#25911
1710 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1711 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1712 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1713 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1714 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1715 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1717 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1718 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1719 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1722 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1723 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1724 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1726 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1727 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1728 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1729 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1731 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1732 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1733 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1735 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1737 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1738 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1739 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1740 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1741 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1742 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1743 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1744 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1747 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1749 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1750 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1753 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1755 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1759 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1761 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1764 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1765 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1766 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1767 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1768 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1769 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1770 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1772 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1773 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1775 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1777 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1779 * non-maintainer release
1780 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1781 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1783 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1784 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1785 * no content changes
1786 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1788 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1790 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1794 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1796 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1800 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1801 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1802 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1804 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1805 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1807 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1808 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1809 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1810 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1812 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1813 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1814 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1815 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1816 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1817 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1818 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1820 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1821 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1822 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1825 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1826 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1827 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1829 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1830 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1831 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1833 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1834 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1836 * New version numbering scheme:
1838 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1839 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1840 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1843 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1844 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1845 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1846 differ between the manuals.
1848 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1849 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1850 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1851 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1853 * Packaging changes:
1855 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1856 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1858 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1860 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1862 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1866 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1867 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1868 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1870 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1871 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1874 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1875 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1876 file extension as the referenced file
1878 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1879 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1881 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1882 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1883 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1884 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1887 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1888 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1889 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1891 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1892 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1893 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1894 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1897 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1898 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1901 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1902 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1903 reasonable default configuration
1905 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1906 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1907 by all news servers and clients
1909 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1910 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1911 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1912 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1913 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1915 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1916 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1919 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1921 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1922 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1924 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1927 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1928 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1930 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1931 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1933 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1935 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1937 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1940 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1941 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1942 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1944 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1946 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1947 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1948 * Don't use debstd anymore
1950 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1952 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1955 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1956 contrib/non-free policy
1957 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1958 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1959 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1960 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1961 - new section about `Daemons'
1962 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1963 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1964 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1965 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1966 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1967 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1968 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1969 * SGML source code included in package
1970 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1972 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1974 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1977 - completely reworked structure
1978 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1979 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1980 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1981 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1982 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1983 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1984 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1985 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1986 - mention "orphaned packages"
1987 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1988 distributions' policy
1989 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1990 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1991 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1992 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1993 - added section about arch spec strings
1994 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1995 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1996 - added section about "menus"
1997 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1998 the new documentation policy soon
1999 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2000 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2002 - added section about editors and pagers
2003 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2004 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2005 - added section about device files
2006 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2007 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2008 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2010 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2011 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2012 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2013 - Added new section about obsolete names
2014 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2015 * Fixed package's description
2017 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2019 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2023 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2025 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2028 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2029 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2030 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2032 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2034 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2037 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2038 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2040 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2041 and upload it "byhand" too.
2043 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2045 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2049 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2050 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2051 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2052 functionality must not have the same name.
2053 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2054 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2055 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2056 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2057 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2058 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2059 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2061 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2062 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2063 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2064 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2065 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2066 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2067 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2068 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2071 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2073 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2075 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2077 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2078 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2079 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2080 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2081 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2084 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2086 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2088 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2090 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2091 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2092 description of deb file format.
2093 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2094 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2096 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2098 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2099 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2101 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2103 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2105 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2106 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2107 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2108 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2109 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2110 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2111 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2112 packages in section on Procedure
2113 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2114 a package maintainer
2115 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2116 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2117 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2119 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2120 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2121 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2122 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2123 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2124 on various shlib files
2125 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2126 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2127 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2129 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2131 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2133 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2134 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2135 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2137 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2138 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2139 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2140 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2141 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2143 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2145 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2147 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2149 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2151 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2152 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2153 compatibility go in contrib.
2155 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2156 instructions in policy manual.
2157 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2160 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2162 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2164 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2165 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2166 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2167 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2169 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2170 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2173 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2175 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2177 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2178 * More detail about changelog format names.
2180 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2181 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2185 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2187 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2189 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2191 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2193 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2195 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2197 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2199 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2200 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2201 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2203 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2205 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2207 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2209 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2211 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2215 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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