1 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
7 Closes: #459868, #581011
8 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
9 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
13 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
14 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
15 machine. (Closes: #591857)
16 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
17 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
18 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
19 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
20 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
21 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
22 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
24 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:47:47 -0700
26 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
29 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
30 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
34 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
39 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
40 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
44 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
45 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
49 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
50 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
54 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
55 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
59 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
60 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
64 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
65 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
67 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
69 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
70 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
72 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
74 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
75 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
80 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
81 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
86 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
87 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
91 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
92 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
96 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
97 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
101 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
102 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
106 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
107 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
111 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
112 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
116 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
118 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
119 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
120 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
121 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
122 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
123 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
124 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
125 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
126 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
128 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
129 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
130 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
131 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
132 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
133 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
135 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
137 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
143 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
146 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
147 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
148 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
149 and distribution license' (three times).
150 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
151 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
156 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
158 Proposed by Santiago Vila
159 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
166 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
167 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
171 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
172 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
173 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
176 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
178 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
179 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
183 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
184 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
187 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
189 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
190 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
193 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
195 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
196 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
199 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
201 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
202 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
203 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
206 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
207 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
212 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
213 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
217 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
218 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
222 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
223 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
228 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
229 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
230 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
233 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
234 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
239 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
240 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
244 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
245 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
246 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
247 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
248 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
249 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
250 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
251 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
252 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
253 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
254 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
255 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
256 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
257 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
258 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
259 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
260 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
261 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
262 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
263 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
264 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
265 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
266 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
267 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
268 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
269 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
270 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
271 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
272 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
273 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
274 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
275 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
277 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
279 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
281 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
284 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
285 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
287 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
288 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
292 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
295 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
296 Wording: Steve Langasek.
297 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
298 Seconded: Julien Cristau
299 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
302 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
303 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
304 Seconded: Russ Allbery
305 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
308 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
309 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
310 Seconded: Russ Allbery
312 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
313 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
314 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
315 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
316 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
317 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
318 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
319 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
322 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
323 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
324 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
325 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
326 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
327 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
328 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
330 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
331 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
332 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
333 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
334 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
335 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
336 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
339 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
340 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
341 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
342 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
343 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
345 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
348 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
349 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
352 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
353 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
356 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
358 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
361 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
365 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
366 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
370 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
371 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
375 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
376 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
379 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
380 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
382 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
383 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
388 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
389 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
393 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
394 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
398 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
399 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
403 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
404 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
408 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
409 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
413 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
414 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
415 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
416 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
417 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
418 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
419 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
420 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
421 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
422 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
423 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
424 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
425 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
426 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
427 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
429 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
430 Source field descriptions.
431 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
432 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
433 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
434 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
435 description says otherwise.
437 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
439 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
443 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
446 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
447 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
449 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
450 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
454 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
455 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
459 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
460 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
464 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
465 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
466 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
467 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
471 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
472 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
473 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
474 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
475 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
477 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
478 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
482 * Add myself to Uploaders.
485 * Add myself to Uploaders.
486 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
488 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
489 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
490 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
492 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
494 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
497 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
501 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
502 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
504 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
506 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
507 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
511 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
512 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
514 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
516 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
517 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
521 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
522 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
526 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
527 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
529 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
531 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
532 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
534 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
536 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
537 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
538 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
541 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
542 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
546 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
547 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
550 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
552 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
553 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
554 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
555 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
556 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
557 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
558 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
559 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
560 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
561 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
562 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
563 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
564 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
565 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
566 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
567 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
568 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
569 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
570 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
571 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
572 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
573 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
574 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
575 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
576 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
577 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
578 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
579 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
580 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
581 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
583 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
584 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
585 links was completed long ago.
586 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
588 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
590 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
593 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
595 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
597 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
600 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
601 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
602 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
603 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
604 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
605 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
606 Millan (Closes: #209008).
607 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
608 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
610 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
612 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
614 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
615 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
616 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
617 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
618 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
619 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
620 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
622 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
623 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
624 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
625 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
627 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
628 Küster (Closes: #403391).
629 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
630 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
631 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
632 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
633 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
634 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
638 Closes: #186700, #458910
639 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
640 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
643 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
644 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
645 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
646 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
647 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
648 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
649 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
650 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
652 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
653 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
655 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
656 * Add an md5sums control file.
657 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
658 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
659 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
660 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
661 currently part of policy.
662 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
663 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
664 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
667 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
669 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
672 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
673 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
674 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
675 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
676 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
677 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
678 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
679 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
680 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
681 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
682 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
683 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
684 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
685 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
686 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
688 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
690 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
691 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
692 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
694 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
695 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
696 list?" (Closes: #412634).
697 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
698 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
699 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
700 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
701 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
702 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
703 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
704 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
705 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
706 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
707 debconf specification.
708 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
709 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
711 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
713 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
716 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
717 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
718 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
719 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
721 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
723 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
724 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
725 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
726 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
727 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
729 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
730 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
731 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
732 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
733 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
734 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
735 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
736 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
737 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
738 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
739 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
740 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
741 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
742 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
743 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
744 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
746 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
748 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
749 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
750 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
751 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
752 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
753 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
754 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
755 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
757 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
759 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
762 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
763 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
764 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
765 Polo (Closes: #372497).
766 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
767 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
769 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
770 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
771 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
772 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
773 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
774 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
775 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
776 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
777 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
778 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
780 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
781 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
782 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
783 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
784 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
785 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
787 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
789 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
792 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
793 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
794 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
796 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
797 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
799 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
801 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
804 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
805 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
806 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
807 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
808 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
809 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
810 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
811 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
812 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
814 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
815 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
816 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
817 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
818 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
819 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
820 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
821 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
822 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
823 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
824 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
827 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
829 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
832 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
833 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
834 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
835 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
836 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
837 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
838 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
839 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
840 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
841 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
842 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
843 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
844 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
845 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
846 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
847 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
848 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
849 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
850 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
851 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
852 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
853 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
854 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
855 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
856 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
857 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
858 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
860 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
861 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
862 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
863 Hess (Closes: #362247).
864 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
865 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
866 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
867 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
868 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
869 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
870 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
871 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
872 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
873 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
874 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
875 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
877 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
878 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
880 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
881 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
882 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
883 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
884 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
885 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
886 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
887 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
888 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
889 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
890 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
892 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
894 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
898 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
899 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
900 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
901 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
902 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
903 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
904 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
905 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
906 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
907 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
908 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
909 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
911 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
912 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
913 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
914 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
915 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
916 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
917 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
918 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
919 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
920 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
921 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
922 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
923 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
924 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
925 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
926 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
927 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
928 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
929 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
932 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
934 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
937 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
938 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
939 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
941 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
942 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
943 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
944 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
946 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
948 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
952 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
953 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
954 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
955 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
956 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
957 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
958 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
959 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
960 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
962 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
963 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
964 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
966 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
967 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
968 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
969 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
970 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
971 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
972 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
974 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
975 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
976 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
977 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
979 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
980 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
981 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
982 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
983 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
984 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
985 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
986 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
988 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
989 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
990 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
991 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
992 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
993 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
994 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
995 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
996 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
997 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
998 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
999 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1000 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1001 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1002 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1003 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1004 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1006 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1008 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1012 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1013 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1014 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1015 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1016 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1017 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1018 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1019 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1021 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1022 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1023 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1024 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1025 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1026 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1027 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1028 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1029 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1030 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1031 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1032 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1033 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1034 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1035 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1036 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1037 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1039 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1040 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1041 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1044 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1045 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1046 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1048 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1049 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1050 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1051 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1052 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1053 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1055 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1056 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1058 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1059 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1060 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1061 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1062 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1063 Closes: #185943, #237049
1065 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1067 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1073 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1074 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1075 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1076 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1077 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1078 running. closes: Bug#187250
1079 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1080 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1081 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1082 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1083 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1084 user closes: Bug#176506
1086 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1088 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1092 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1093 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1094 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1095 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1096 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1097 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1098 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1099 deb-building toolchain.
1100 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1101 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1102 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1103 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1104 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1105 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1106 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1107 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1108 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1109 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1110 sections about changelog files.
1112 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1113 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1114 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1115 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1116 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1117 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1119 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1120 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1121 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1122 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1123 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1124 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1125 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1126 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1127 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1128 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1129 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1130 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1131 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1132 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1133 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1134 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1135 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1136 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1137 for the restructuring
1139 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1141 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1146 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1147 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1148 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1149 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1150 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1151 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1153 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1154 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1155 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1156 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1157 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1158 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1159 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1161 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1162 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1163 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1164 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1166 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1168 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1172 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1173 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1174 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1175 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1176 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1178 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1179 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1180 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1181 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1183 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1184 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1185 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1186 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1187 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1188 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1189 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1190 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1191 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1192 offtopic stuff, too.
1193 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1194 script should start it, closes: #60979
1195 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1196 "should", closes: #170019
1197 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1198 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1199 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1200 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1201 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1202 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1203 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1204 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1207 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1209 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1213 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1214 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1215 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1216 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1217 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1218 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1219 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1220 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1222 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1223 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1224 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1225 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1226 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1227 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1228 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1229 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1230 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1232 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1233 file, closes: Bug#65764
1235 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1237 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1240 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1241 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1242 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1243 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1244 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1245 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1246 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1247 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1248 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1249 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1250 details. closes: Bug#133030
1251 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1252 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1253 parts of Bug#161455.
1255 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1257 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1260 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1261 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1262 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1263 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1264 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1265 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1266 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1267 not. closes: Bug#139820
1268 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1269 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1270 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1271 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1272 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1273 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1274 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1275 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1276 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1277 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1279 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1281 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1282 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1283 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1284 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1285 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1286 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1287 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1288 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1289 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1290 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1291 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1292 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1293 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1294 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1295 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1296 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1297 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1298 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1299 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1300 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1302 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1303 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1304 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1305 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1306 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1307 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1308 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1310 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1311 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1312 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1313 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1314 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1315 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1316 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1317 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1318 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1320 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1322 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1325 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1326 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1327 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1328 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1329 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1330 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1331 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1332 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1333 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1334 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1335 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1336 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1337 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1338 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1339 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1340 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1341 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1342 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1343 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1344 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1345 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1346 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1348 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1350 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1353 medium, high, emergency.
1354 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1355 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1356 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1357 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1358 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1361 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1362 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1363 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1365 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1366 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1367 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1368 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1369 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1370 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1371 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1374 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1376 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1379 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1380 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1381 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1383 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1384 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1385 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1386 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1387 debian/rules to do this
1388 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1389 patches are incorporated upstream
1390 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1391 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1392 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1393 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1394 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1395 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1397 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1398 system closes: Bug#91249
1399 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1400 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1401 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1402 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1403 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1404 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1405 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1406 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1407 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1408 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1409 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1410 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1411 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1413 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1415 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1418 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1419 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1420 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1422 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1423 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1424 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1426 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1429 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1431 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1434 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1435 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1436 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1437 package for the time being
1438 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1439 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1440 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1441 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1442 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1443 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1444 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1445 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1446 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1447 Build-Depends arch syntax
1448 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1450 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1451 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1453 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1454 from policy maintenance duties.
1455 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1456 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1458 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1460 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1464 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1466 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1469 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1470 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1471 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1472 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1473 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1474 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1475 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1476 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1477 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1478 minor version number for this
1479 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1480 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1481 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1482 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1483 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1484 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1485 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1486 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1487 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1489 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1491 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1494 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1495 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1496 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1497 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1499 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1501 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1502 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1503 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1504 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1505 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1506 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1507 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1508 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1509 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1510 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1511 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1512 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1513 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1514 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1515 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1516 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1519 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1521 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1524 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1526 * Document the Enhances relationship
1527 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1528 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1529 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1530 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1531 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1532 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1534 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1536 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1537 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1538 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1539 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1541 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1542 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1543 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1544 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1545 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1547 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1549 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1552 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1553 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1555 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1556 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1557 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1558 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1559 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1560 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1561 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1562 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1563 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1565 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1567 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1569 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1572 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1573 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1574 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1575 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1576 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1577 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1578 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1579 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1580 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1581 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1582 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1583 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1584 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1585 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1586 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1587 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1588 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1589 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1590 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1591 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1592 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1594 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1595 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1597 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1599 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1602 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1603 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1604 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1605 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1606 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1607 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1608 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1609 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1610 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1611 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1612 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1613 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1614 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1615 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1616 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1617 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1618 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1619 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1620 list closes: Bug#53756
1621 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1622 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1623 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1624 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1625 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1626 policy closes: Bug#53760
1627 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1628 policy closes: Bug#53761
1629 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1630 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1631 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1632 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1633 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1634 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1635 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1636 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1637 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1638 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1639 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1641 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1642 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1643 to install with older fileutils.
1644 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1645 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1646 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1647 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1649 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1650 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1652 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1654 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1657 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1659 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1661 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1664 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1666 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1669 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1672 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1674 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1676 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1678 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1681 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1683 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1685 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1688 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1689 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1690 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1691 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1692 directoried (closes: #41547)
1693 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1694 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1695 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1696 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1697 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1698 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1699 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1700 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1701 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1702 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1703 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1705 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1706 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1707 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1708 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1709 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1710 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1711 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1713 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1714 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1715 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1716 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1718 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1720 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1722 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1723 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1725 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1727 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1730 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1732 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1734 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1737 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1739 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1740 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1741 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1742 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1743 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1744 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1745 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1746 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1747 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1748 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1749 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1750 this closes: Bug#38612
1751 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1752 before. closes: Bug#40864
1754 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1756 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1759 officially uploaded.
1760 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1762 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1763 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1764 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1766 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1767 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1768 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1769 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1770 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1771 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1773 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1774 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1775 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1777 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1779 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1780 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1781 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1782 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1783 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1785 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1787 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1790 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1791 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1792 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1793 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1794 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1795 there). closes: Bug#34233
1796 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1797 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1798 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1799 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1800 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1802 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1804 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1807 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1808 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1809 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1812 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1813 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1814 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1815 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1816 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1819 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1820 number. closes: BUG#25911
1822 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1823 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1824 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1825 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1826 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1827 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1829 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1830 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1831 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1834 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1835 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1836 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1838 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1839 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1840 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1841 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1843 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1844 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1845 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1847 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1849 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1850 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1851 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1852 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1853 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1854 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1855 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1856 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1859 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1861 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1862 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1865 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1867 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1871 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1873 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1876 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1877 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1878 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1879 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1880 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1881 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1882 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1884 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1885 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1887 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1889 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1891 * non-maintainer release
1892 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1893 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1895 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1896 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1897 * no content changes
1898 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1900 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1902 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1906 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1908 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1912 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1913 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1914 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1916 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1917 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1919 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1920 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1921 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1922 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1924 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1925 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1926 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1927 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1928 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1929 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1930 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1932 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1933 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1934 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1937 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1938 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1939 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1941 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1942 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1943 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1945 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1946 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1948 * New version numbering scheme:
1950 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1951 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1952 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1955 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1956 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1957 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1958 differ between the manuals.
1960 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1961 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1962 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1963 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1965 * Packaging changes:
1967 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1968 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1970 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1972 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1974 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1978 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1979 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1980 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1982 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1983 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1986 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1987 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1988 file extension as the referenced file
1990 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1991 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1993 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1994 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1995 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1996 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1999 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2000 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2001 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2003 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2004 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2005 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2006 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2009 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2010 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2013 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2014 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2015 reasonable default configuration
2017 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2018 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2019 by all news servers and clients
2021 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2022 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2023 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2024 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2025 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2027 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2028 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2031 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2033 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2034 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2036 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2039 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2040 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2042 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2043 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2045 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2047 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2049 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2052 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2053 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2054 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2056 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2058 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2059 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2060 * Don't use debstd anymore
2062 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2064 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2067 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2068 contrib/non-free policy
2069 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2070 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2071 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2072 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2073 - new section about `Daemons'
2074 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2075 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2076 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2077 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2078 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2079 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2080 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2081 * SGML source code included in package
2082 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2084 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2086 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2089 - completely reworked structure
2090 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2091 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2092 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2093 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2094 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2095 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2096 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2097 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2098 - mention "orphaned packages"
2099 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2100 distributions' policy
2101 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2102 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2103 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2104 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2105 - added section about arch spec strings
2106 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2107 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2108 - added section about "menus"
2109 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2110 the new documentation policy soon
2111 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2112 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2114 - added section about editors and pagers
2115 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2116 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2117 - added section about device files
2118 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2119 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2120 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2122 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2123 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2124 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2125 - Added new section about obsolete names
2126 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2127 * Fixed package's description
2129 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2131 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2135 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2137 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2140 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2141 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2142 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2144 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2146 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2149 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2150 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2152 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2153 and upload it "byhand" too.
2155 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2157 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2161 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2162 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2163 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2164 functionality must not have the same name.
2165 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2166 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2167 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2168 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2169 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2170 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2171 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2173 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2174 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2175 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2176 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2177 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2178 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2179 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2180 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2183 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2185 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2187 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2189 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2190 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2191 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2192 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2193 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2196 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2198 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2200 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2202 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2203 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2204 description of deb file format.
2205 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2206 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2208 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2210 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2211 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2213 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2215 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2217 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2218 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2219 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2220 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2221 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2222 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2223 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2224 packages in section on Procedure
2225 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2226 a package maintainer
2227 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2228 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2229 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2231 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2232 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2233 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2234 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2235 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2236 on various shlib files
2237 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2238 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2239 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2241 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2243 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2245 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2246 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2247 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2249 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2250 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2251 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2252 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2253 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2255 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2257 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2259 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2261 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2263 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2264 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2265 compatibility go in contrib.
2267 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2268 instructions in policy manual.
2269 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2272 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2274 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2276 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2277 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2278 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2279 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2281 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2282 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2285 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2287 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2289 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2290 * More detail about changelog format names.
2292 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2293 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2297 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2299 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2301 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2303 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2305 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2307 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2309 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2311 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2312 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2313 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2315 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2317 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2319 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2321 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2323 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2327 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100