1 debian-policy (3.8.0.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
4 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
6 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:23:50 -0700
8 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
11 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
13 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
15 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
18 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
19 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
20 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
21 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
22 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
23 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
24 Millan (Closes: #209008).
25 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
26 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
28 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
30 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
32 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
33 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
34 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
35 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
36 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
37 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
38 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
40 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
41 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
42 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
43 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
45 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
46 Küster (Closes: #403391).
47 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
48 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
49 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
50 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
51 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
52 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
56 Closes: #186700, #458910
57 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
58 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
61 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
62 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
63 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
64 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
65 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
66 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
67 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
68 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
70 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
71 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
73 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
74 * Add an md5sums control file.
75 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
76 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
77 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
78 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
79 currently part of policy.
80 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
81 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
82 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
85 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
87 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
90 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
91 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
92 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
93 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
94 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
95 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
96 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
97 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
98 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
99 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
100 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
101 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
102 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
103 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
104 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
106 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
108 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
109 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
110 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
112 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
113 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
114 list?" (Closes: #412634).
115 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
116 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
117 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
118 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
119 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
120 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
121 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
122 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
123 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
124 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
125 debconf specification.
126 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
127 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
129 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
131 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
134 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
135 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
136 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
137 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
139 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
141 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
142 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
143 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
144 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
145 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
147 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
148 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
149 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
150 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
151 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
152 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
153 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
154 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
155 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
156 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
157 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
158 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
159 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
160 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
161 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
162 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
164 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
166 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
167 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
168 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
169 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
170 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
171 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
172 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
173 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
175 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
177 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
180 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
181 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
182 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
183 Polo (Closes: #372497).
184 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
185 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
187 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
188 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
189 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
190 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
191 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
192 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
193 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
194 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
195 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
196 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
198 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
199 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
200 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
201 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
202 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
203 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
205 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
207 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
210 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
211 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
212 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
214 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
215 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
217 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
219 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
222 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
223 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
224 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
225 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
226 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
227 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
228 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
229 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
230 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
232 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
233 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
234 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
235 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
236 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
237 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
238 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
239 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
240 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
241 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
242 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
245 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
247 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
250 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
252 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
253 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
254 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
255 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
256 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
257 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
258 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
259 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
260 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
261 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
262 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
263 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
264 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
265 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
266 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
267 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
268 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
269 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
270 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
271 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
272 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
273 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
274 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
275 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
276 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
278 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
279 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
280 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
281 Hess (Closes: #362247).
282 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
283 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
284 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
285 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
286 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
287 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
288 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
289 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
290 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
291 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
292 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
293 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
296 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
298 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
299 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
300 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
301 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
302 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
303 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
304 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
305 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
306 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
307 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
308 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
310 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
312 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
316 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
317 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
318 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
319 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
320 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
321 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
322 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
323 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
324 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
325 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
326 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
327 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
329 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
330 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
331 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
332 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
333 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
334 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
335 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
336 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
337 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
338 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
339 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
340 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
341 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
342 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
343 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
344 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
345 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
346 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
347 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
350 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
352 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
355 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
356 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
357 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
359 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
360 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
361 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
362 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
364 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
366 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
370 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
371 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
372 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
373 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
374 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
375 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
376 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
377 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
378 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
380 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
381 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
382 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
384 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
385 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
386 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
387 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
388 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
389 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
390 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
392 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
393 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
394 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
395 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
397 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
398 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
399 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
400 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
401 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
402 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
403 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
404 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
406 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
407 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
408 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
409 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
410 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
411 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
412 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
413 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
414 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
415 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
416 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
417 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
418 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
419 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
420 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
421 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
422 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
424 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
426 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
429 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
430 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
431 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
432 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
433 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
434 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
435 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
436 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
437 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
439 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
440 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
441 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
442 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
443 this section. closes: Bug#248618
444 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
445 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
446 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
447 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
448 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
449 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
450 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
451 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
452 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
453 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
454 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
455 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
457 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
458 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
459 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
462 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
463 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
464 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
466 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
467 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
468 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
469 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
470 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
471 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
473 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
474 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
476 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
477 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
478 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
479 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
480 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
481 Closes: #185943, #237049
483 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
485 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
491 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
492 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
493 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
494 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
495 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
496 running. closes: Bug#187250
497 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
498 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
499 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
500 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
501 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
502 user closes: Bug#176506
504 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
506 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
510 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
511 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
512 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
513 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
514 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
515 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
516 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
517 deb-building toolchain.
518 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
519 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
520 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
521 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
522 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
523 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
524 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
525 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
526 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
527 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
528 sections about changelog files.
530 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
531 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
532 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
533 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
534 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
535 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
537 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
538 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
539 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
540 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
541 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
542 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
543 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
544 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
545 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
546 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
547 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
548 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
549 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
550 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
551 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
552 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
553 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
554 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
555 for the restructuring
557 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
559 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
564 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
565 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
566 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
567 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
568 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
569 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
571 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
572 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
573 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
574 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
575 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
576 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
577 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
579 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
580 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
581 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
582 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
584 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
586 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
590 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
591 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
592 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
593 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
594 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
596 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
597 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
598 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
599 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
601 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
602 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
603 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
604 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
605 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
606 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
607 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
608 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
609 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
611 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
612 script should start it, closes: #60979
613 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
614 "should", closes: #170019
615 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
616 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
617 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
618 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
619 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
620 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
621 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
622 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
625 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
627 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
631 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
632 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
633 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
634 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
635 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
636 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
637 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
638 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
640 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
641 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
642 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
643 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
644 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
645 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
646 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
647 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
648 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
650 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
651 file, closes: Bug#65764
653 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
655 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
658 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
659 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
660 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
661 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
662 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
663 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
664 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
665 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
666 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
667 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
668 details. closes: Bug#133030
669 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
670 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
673 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
675 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
678 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
679 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
680 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
681 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
682 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
683 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
684 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
685 not. closes: Bug#139820
686 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
687 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
688 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
689 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
690 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
691 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
692 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
693 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
694 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
695 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
697 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
699 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
700 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
701 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
702 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
703 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
704 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
705 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
706 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
707 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
708 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
709 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
710 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
711 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
712 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
713 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
714 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
715 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
716 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
717 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
718 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
720 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
721 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
722 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
723 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
724 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
725 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
726 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
728 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
729 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
730 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
731 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
732 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
733 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
734 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
735 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
736 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
738 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
740 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
743 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
744 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
745 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
746 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
747 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
748 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
749 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
750 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
751 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
752 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
753 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
754 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
755 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
756 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
757 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
758 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
759 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
760 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
761 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
762 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
763 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
764 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
766 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
768 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
771 medium, high, emergency.
772 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
773 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
774 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
775 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
776 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
779 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
780 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
781 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
783 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
784 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
785 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
786 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
787 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
788 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
789 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
792 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
794 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
797 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
798 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
799 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
801 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
802 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
803 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
804 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
805 debian/rules to do this
806 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
807 patches are incorporated upstream
808 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
809 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
810 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
811 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
812 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
813 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
815 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
816 system closes: Bug#91249
817 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
818 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
819 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
820 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
821 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
822 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
823 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
824 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
825 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
826 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
827 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
828 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
829 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
831 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
833 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
835 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
836 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
837 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
838 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
840 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
841 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
842 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
844 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
847 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
849 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
852 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
853 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
854 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
855 package for the time being
856 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
857 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
858 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
859 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
860 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
861 * Rename all .text files as .txt
862 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
863 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
864 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
865 Build-Depends arch syntax
866 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
868 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
869 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
871 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
872 from policy maintenance duties.
873 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
874 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
876 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
878 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
882 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
884 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
887 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
888 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
889 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
890 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
891 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
892 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
893 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
894 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
895 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
896 minor version number for this
897 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
898 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
899 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
900 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
901 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
902 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
903 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
904 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
905 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
907 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
909 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
911 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
912 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
913 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
914 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
915 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
917 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
919 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
920 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
921 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
922 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
923 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
924 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
925 xutils closes: Bug#82966
926 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
927 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
928 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
929 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
930 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
931 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
932 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
933 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
934 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
937 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
939 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
941 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
942 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
944 * Document the Enhances relationship
945 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
946 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
947 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
948 policy. closes: Bug#53496
949 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
950 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
952 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
954 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
955 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
956 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
957 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
959 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
960 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
961 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
962 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
963 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
965 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
967 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
970 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
971 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
973 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
974 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
975 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
976 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
977 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
978 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
979 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
980 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
981 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
983 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
985 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
987 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
989 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
990 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
991 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
992 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
993 policy. closes: Bug#64437
994 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
995 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
996 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
997 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
998 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
999 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1000 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1001 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1002 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1003 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1004 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1005 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1006 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1007 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1008 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1009 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1010 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1012 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1013 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1015 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1017 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1020 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1021 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1022 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1023 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1024 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1025 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1026 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1027 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1028 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1029 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1030 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1031 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1032 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1033 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1034 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1035 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1036 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1037 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1038 list closes: Bug#53756
1039 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1040 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1041 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1042 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1043 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1044 policy closes: Bug#53760
1045 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1046 policy closes: Bug#53761
1047 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1048 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1049 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1050 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1051 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1052 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1053 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1054 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1055 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1056 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1057 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1059 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1060 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1061 to install with older fileutils.
1062 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1063 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1064 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1065 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1067 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1068 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1070 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1072 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1075 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1077 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1079 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1082 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1084 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1087 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1090 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1092 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1094 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1096 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1099 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1101 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1103 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1106 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1107 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1108 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1109 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1110 directoried (closes: #41547)
1111 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1112 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1113 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1114 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1115 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1116 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1117 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1118 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1119 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1120 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1121 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1123 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1124 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1125 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1126 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1127 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1128 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1129 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1131 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1132 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1133 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1134 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1136 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1138 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1140 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1141 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1143 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1145 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1148 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1150 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1152 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1155 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1157 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1158 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1159 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1160 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1161 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1162 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1163 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1164 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1165 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1166 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1167 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1168 this closes: Bug#38612
1169 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1170 before. closes: Bug#40864
1172 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1174 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1177 officially uploaded.
1178 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1180 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1181 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1182 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1184 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1185 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1186 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1187 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1188 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1189 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1191 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1192 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1193 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1195 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1197 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1198 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1199 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1200 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1201 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1203 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1205 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1208 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1209 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1210 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1211 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1212 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1213 there). closes: Bug#34233
1214 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1215 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1216 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1217 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1218 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1220 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1222 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1225 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1226 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1227 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1230 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1231 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1232 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1233 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1234 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1237 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1238 number. closes: BUG#25911
1240 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1241 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1242 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1243 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1244 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1245 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1247 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1248 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1249 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1252 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1253 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1254 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1256 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1257 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1258 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1259 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1261 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1262 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1263 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1265 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1267 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1268 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1269 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1270 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1271 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1272 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1273 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1274 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1277 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1279 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1280 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1283 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1285 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1289 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1291 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1294 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1295 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1296 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1297 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1298 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1299 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1300 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1302 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1303 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1305 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1307 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1309 * non-maintainer release
1310 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1311 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1313 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1314 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1315 * no content changes
1316 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1318 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1320 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1324 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1326 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1330 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1331 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1332 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1334 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1335 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1337 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1338 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1339 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1340 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1342 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1343 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1344 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1345 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1346 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1347 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1348 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1350 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1351 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1352 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1355 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1356 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1357 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1359 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1360 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1361 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1363 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1364 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1366 * New version numbering scheme:
1368 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1369 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1370 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1373 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1374 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1375 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1376 differ between the manuals.
1378 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1379 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1380 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1381 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1383 * Packaging changes:
1385 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1386 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1388 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1390 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1392 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1396 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1397 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1398 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1400 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1401 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1404 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1405 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1406 file extension as the referenced file
1408 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1409 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1411 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1412 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1413 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1414 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1417 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1418 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1419 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1421 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1422 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1423 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1424 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1427 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1428 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1431 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1432 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1433 reasonable default configuration
1435 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1436 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1437 by all news servers and clients
1439 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1440 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1441 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1442 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1443 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1445 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1446 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1449 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1451 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1452 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1454 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1457 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1458 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1460 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1461 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1463 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1465 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1467 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1470 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1471 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1472 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1474 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1476 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1477 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1478 * Don't use debstd anymore
1480 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1482 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1485 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1486 contrib/non-free policy
1487 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1488 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1489 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1490 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1491 - new section about `Daemons'
1492 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1493 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1494 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1495 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1496 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1497 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1498 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1499 * SGML source code included in package
1500 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1502 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1504 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1507 - completely reworked structure
1508 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1509 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1510 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1511 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1512 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1513 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1514 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1515 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1516 - mention "orphaned packages"
1517 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1518 distributions' policy
1519 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1520 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1521 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1522 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1523 - added section about arch spec strings
1524 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1525 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1526 - added section about "menus"
1527 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1528 the new documentation policy soon
1529 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1530 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1532 - added section about editors and pagers
1533 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1534 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1535 - added section about device files
1536 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1537 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1538 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1540 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1541 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1542 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1543 - Added new section about obsolete names
1544 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1545 * Fixed package's description
1547 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1549 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1553 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1555 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1558 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1559 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1560 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1562 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1564 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1567 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1568 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1570 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1571 and upload it "byhand" too.
1573 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1575 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1579 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1580 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1581 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1582 functionality must not have the same name.
1583 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1584 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1585 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1586 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1587 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1588 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1589 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1591 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1592 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1593 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1594 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1595 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1596 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1597 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1598 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1601 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1603 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1605 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1607 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1608 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1609 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1610 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1611 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1614 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1616 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1618 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1620 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1621 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1622 description of deb file format.
1623 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1624 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1626 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1628 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1629 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1631 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1633 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1635 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1636 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1637 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1638 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1639 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1640 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1641 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1642 packages in section on Procedure
1643 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1644 a package maintainer
1645 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1646 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1647 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1649 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1650 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1651 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1652 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1653 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1654 on various shlib files
1655 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1656 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1657 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1659 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1661 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1663 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1664 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1665 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1667 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1668 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1669 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1670 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1671 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1673 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1675 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1677 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1679 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1681 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1682 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1683 compatibility go in contrib.
1685 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1686 instructions in policy manual.
1687 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1690 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1692 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1694 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1695 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1696 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1697 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1699 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1700 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1703 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1705 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1707 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1708 * More detail about changelog format names.
1710 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1711 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1715 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1717 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1719 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1721 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1723 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1725 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1727 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1729 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1730 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1731 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1733 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1735 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1737 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1739 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1741 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1745 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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