1 debian-policy (3.7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
4 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
5 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
7 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
8 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
9 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
10 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
11 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
12 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
13 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
14 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
15 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
16 currently part of policy.
17 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
21 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
24 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
25 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
26 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
27 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
28 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
29 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
30 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
31 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
32 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
33 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
34 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
35 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
36 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
37 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
38 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
40 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
42 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
43 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
44 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
46 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
47 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
48 list?" (Closes: #412634).
49 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
50 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
51 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
52 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
53 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
54 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
55 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
56 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
57 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
58 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
59 debconf specification.
60 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
61 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
63 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
65 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
68 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
69 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
70 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
71 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
73 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
75 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
76 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
77 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
78 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
79 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
81 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
82 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
83 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
84 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
85 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
86 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
87 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
88 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
89 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
90 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
91 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
92 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
93 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
94 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
95 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
96 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
98 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
100 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
101 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
102 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
103 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
104 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
105 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
106 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
107 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
109 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
111 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
114 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
115 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
116 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
117 Polo (Closes: #372497).
118 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
119 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
121 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
122 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
123 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
124 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
125 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
126 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
127 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
128 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
129 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
130 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
132 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
133 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
134 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
135 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
136 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
137 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
139 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
141 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
144 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
145 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
146 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
149 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
151 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
153 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
156 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
157 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
158 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
159 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
160 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
161 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
162 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
163 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
164 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
166 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
167 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
168 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
169 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
170 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
171 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
172 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
173 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
174 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
175 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
176 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
179 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
181 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
184 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
185 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
186 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
187 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
188 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
189 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
190 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
191 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
192 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
193 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
194 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
195 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
196 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
197 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
198 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
199 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
200 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
201 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
202 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
203 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
204 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
205 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
206 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
207 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
208 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
209 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
210 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
212 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
213 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
214 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
215 Hess (Closes: #362247).
216 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
217 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
218 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
219 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
220 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
221 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
222 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
223 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
224 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
225 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
226 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
227 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
229 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
230 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
232 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
233 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
234 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
235 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
236 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
237 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
238 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
239 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
240 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
241 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
242 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
244 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
246 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
250 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
252 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
253 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
254 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
255 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
256 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
257 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
258 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
259 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
260 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
261 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
263 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
264 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
266 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
267 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
268 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
269 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
270 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
271 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
272 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
273 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
274 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
275 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
276 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
277 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
278 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
279 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
280 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
281 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
284 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
286 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
289 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
290 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
291 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
293 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
294 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
296 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
298 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
300 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
304 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
305 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
306 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
307 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
308 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
309 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
310 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
311 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
312 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
314 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
315 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
316 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
318 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
319 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
320 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
321 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
322 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
323 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
324 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
326 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
327 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
328 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
329 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
331 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
332 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
333 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
334 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
335 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
336 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
337 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
338 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
340 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
341 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
342 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
343 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
344 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
345 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
346 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
347 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
348 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
349 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
350 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
351 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
352 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
353 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
354 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
355 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
356 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
358 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
360 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
363 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
364 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
365 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
366 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
367 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
368 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
369 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
370 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
371 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
373 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
374 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
375 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
376 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
377 this section. closes: Bug#248618
378 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
379 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
380 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
381 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
382 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
383 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
384 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
385 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
386 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
387 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
388 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
389 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
391 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
392 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
393 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
396 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
397 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
398 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
400 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
401 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
402 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
403 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
404 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
405 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
407 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
408 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
410 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
411 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
412 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
413 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
414 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
415 Closes: #185943, #237049
417 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
419 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
425 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
426 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
427 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
428 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
429 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
430 running. closes: Bug#187250
431 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
432 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
433 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
434 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
435 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
436 user closes: Bug#176506
438 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
440 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
444 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
445 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
446 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
447 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
448 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
449 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
450 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
451 deb-building toolchain.
452 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
453 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
454 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
455 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
456 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
457 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
458 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
459 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
460 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
461 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
462 sections about changelog files.
464 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
465 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
466 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
467 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
468 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
469 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
471 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
472 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
473 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
474 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
475 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
476 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
477 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
478 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
479 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
480 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
481 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
482 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
483 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
484 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
485 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
486 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
487 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
488 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
489 for the restructuring
491 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
493 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
498 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
499 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
500 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
501 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
502 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
503 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
505 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
506 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
507 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
508 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
509 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
510 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
511 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
513 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
514 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
515 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
516 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
518 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
520 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
524 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
525 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
526 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
527 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
528 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
530 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
531 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
532 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
533 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
535 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
536 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
537 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
538 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
539 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
540 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
541 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
542 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
543 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
545 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
546 script should start it, closes: #60979
547 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
548 "should", closes: #170019
549 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
550 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
551 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
552 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
553 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
554 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
555 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
556 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
559 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
561 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
565 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
566 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
567 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
568 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
569 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
570 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
571 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
572 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
574 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
575 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
576 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
577 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
578 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
579 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
580 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
581 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
582 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
584 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
585 file, closes: Bug#65764
587 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
589 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
592 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
593 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
594 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
595 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
596 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
597 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
598 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
599 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
600 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
601 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
602 details. closes: Bug#133030
603 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
604 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
607 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
609 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
612 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
613 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
614 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
615 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
616 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
617 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
618 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
619 not. closes: Bug#139820
620 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
621 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
622 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
623 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
624 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
625 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
626 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
627 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
628 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
629 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
631 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
633 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
634 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
635 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
636 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
637 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
638 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
639 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
640 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
641 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
642 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
643 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
644 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
645 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
646 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
647 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
648 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
649 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
650 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
651 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
652 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
654 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
655 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
656 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
657 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
658 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
659 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
660 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
662 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
663 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
664 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
665 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
666 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
667 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
668 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
669 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
670 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
672 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
674 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
677 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
678 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
679 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
680 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
681 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
682 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
683 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
684 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
685 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
686 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
687 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
688 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
689 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
690 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
691 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
692 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
693 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
694 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
695 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
696 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
697 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
698 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
700 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
702 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
705 medium, high, emergency.
706 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
707 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
708 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
709 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
710 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
713 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
714 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
715 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
717 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
718 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
719 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
720 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
721 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
722 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
723 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
726 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
728 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
731 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
732 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
733 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
735 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
736 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
737 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
738 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
739 debian/rules to do this
740 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
741 patches are incorporated upstream
742 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
743 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
744 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
745 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
746 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
747 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
749 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
750 system closes: Bug#91249
751 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
752 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
753 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
754 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
755 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
756 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
757 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
758 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
759 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
760 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
761 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
762 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
763 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
765 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
767 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
769 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
770 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
771 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
772 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
774 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
775 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
776 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
778 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
781 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
783 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
786 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
787 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
788 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
789 package for the time being
790 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
791 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
792 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
793 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
794 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
795 * Rename all .text files as .txt
796 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
797 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
798 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
799 Build-Depends arch syntax
800 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
802 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
803 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
805 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
806 from policy maintenance duties.
807 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
808 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
810 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
812 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
816 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
818 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
821 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
822 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
823 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
824 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
825 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
826 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
827 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
828 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
829 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
830 minor version number for this
831 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
832 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
833 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
834 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
835 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
836 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
837 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
838 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
839 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
841 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
843 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
845 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
846 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
847 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
848 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
849 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
851 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
853 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
854 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
855 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
856 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
857 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
858 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
859 xutils closes: Bug#82966
860 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
861 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
862 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
863 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
864 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
865 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
866 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
867 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
868 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
871 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
873 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
875 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
876 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
878 * Document the Enhances relationship
879 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
880 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
881 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
882 policy. closes: Bug#53496
883 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
884 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
886 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
888 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
889 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
890 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
891 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
893 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
894 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
895 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
896 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
897 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
899 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
901 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
904 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
905 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
907 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
908 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
909 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
910 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
911 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
912 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
913 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
914 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
915 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
917 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
919 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
921 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
923 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
924 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
925 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
926 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
927 policy. closes: Bug#64437
928 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
929 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
930 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
931 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
932 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
933 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
934 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
935 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
936 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
937 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
938 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
939 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
940 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
941 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
942 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
943 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
944 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
946 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
947 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
949 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
951 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
953 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
954 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
955 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
956 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
957 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
958 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
959 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
960 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
961 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
962 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
963 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
964 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
965 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
966 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
967 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
968 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
969 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
970 alternative closes: Bug#53755
971 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
972 list closes: Bug#53756
973 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
974 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
975 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
976 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
977 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
978 policy closes: Bug#53760
979 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
980 policy closes: Bug#53761
981 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
982 that use X closes: Bug#53762
983 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
984 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
985 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
986 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
987 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
988 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
989 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
990 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
991 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
993 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
994 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
995 to install with older fileutils.
996 * Installed FHS version 2.1
997 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
998 * Added FHS details to copyright file
999 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1001 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1002 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1004 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1006 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1009 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1011 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1013 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1016 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1018 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1021 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1024 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1026 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1028 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1030 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1033 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1035 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1037 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1040 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1041 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1042 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1043 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1044 directoried (closes: #41547)
1045 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1046 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1047 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1048 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1049 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1050 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1051 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1052 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1053 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1054 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1055 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1057 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1058 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1059 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1060 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1061 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1062 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1063 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1065 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1066 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1067 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1068 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1070 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1072 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1074 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1075 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1077 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1079 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1082 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1084 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1086 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1089 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1091 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1092 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1093 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1094 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1095 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1096 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1097 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1098 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1099 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1100 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1101 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1102 this closes: Bug#38612
1103 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1104 before. closes: Bug#40864
1106 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1108 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1111 officially uploaded.
1112 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1114 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1115 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1116 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1118 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1119 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1120 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1121 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1122 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1123 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1125 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1126 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1127 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1129 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1131 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1132 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1133 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1134 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1135 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1137 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1139 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1142 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1143 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1144 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1145 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1146 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1147 there). closes: Bug#34233
1148 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1149 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1150 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1151 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1152 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1154 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1156 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1159 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1160 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1161 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1164 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1165 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1166 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1167 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1168 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1171 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1172 number. closes: BUG#25911
1174 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1175 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1176 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1177 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1178 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1179 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1181 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1182 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1183 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1186 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1187 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1188 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1190 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1191 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1192 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1193 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1195 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1196 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1197 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1199 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1201 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1202 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1203 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1204 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1205 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1206 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1207 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1208 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1211 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1213 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1214 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1217 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1219 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1223 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1225 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1228 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1229 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1230 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1231 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1232 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1233 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1234 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1236 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1237 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1239 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1241 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1243 * non-maintainer release
1244 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1245 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1247 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1248 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1249 * no content changes
1250 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1252 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1254 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1258 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1260 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1264 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1265 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1266 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1268 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1269 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1271 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1272 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1273 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1274 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1276 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1277 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1278 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1279 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1280 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1281 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1282 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1284 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1285 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1286 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1289 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1290 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1291 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1293 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1294 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1295 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1297 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1298 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1300 * New version numbering scheme:
1302 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1303 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1304 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1307 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1308 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1309 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1310 differ between the manuals.
1312 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1313 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1314 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1315 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1317 * Packaging changes:
1319 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1320 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1322 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1324 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1326 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1330 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1331 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1332 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1334 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1335 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1338 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1339 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1340 file extension as the referenced file
1342 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1343 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1345 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1346 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1347 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1348 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1351 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1352 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1353 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1355 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1356 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1357 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1358 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1361 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1362 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1365 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1366 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1367 reasonable default configuration
1369 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1370 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1371 by all news servers and clients
1373 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1374 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1375 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1376 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1377 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1379 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1380 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1383 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1385 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1386 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1388 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1391 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1392 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1394 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1395 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1397 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1399 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1401 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1404 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1405 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1406 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1408 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1410 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1411 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1412 * Don't use debstd anymore
1414 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1416 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1419 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1420 contrib/non-free policy
1421 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1422 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1423 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1424 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1425 - new section about `Daemons'
1426 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1427 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1428 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1429 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1430 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1431 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1432 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1433 * SGML source code included in package
1434 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1436 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1438 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1441 - completely reworked structure
1442 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1443 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1444 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1445 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1446 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1447 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1448 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1449 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1450 - mention "orphaned packages"
1451 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1452 distributions' policy
1453 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1454 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1455 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1456 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1457 - added section about arch spec strings
1458 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1459 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1460 - added section about "menus"
1461 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1462 the new documentation policy soon
1463 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1464 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1466 - added section about editors and pagers
1467 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1468 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1469 - added section about device files
1470 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1471 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1472 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1474 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1475 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1476 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1477 - Added new section about obsolete names
1478 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1479 * Fixed package's description
1481 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1483 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1487 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1489 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1492 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1493 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1494 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1496 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1498 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1501 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1502 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1504 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1505 and upload it "byhand" too.
1507 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1509 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1513 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1514 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1515 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1516 functionality must not have the same name.
1517 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1518 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1519 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1520 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1521 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1522 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1523 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1525 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1526 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1527 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1528 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1529 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1530 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1531 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1532 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1535 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1537 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1539 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1541 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1542 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1543 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1544 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1545 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1548 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1550 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1552 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1554 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1555 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1556 description of deb file format.
1557 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1558 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1560 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1562 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1563 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1565 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1567 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1569 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1570 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1571 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1572 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1573 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1574 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1575 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1576 packages in section on Procedure
1577 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1578 a package maintainer
1579 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1580 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1581 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1583 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1584 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1585 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1586 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1587 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1588 on various shlib files
1589 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1590 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1591 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1593 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1595 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1597 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1598 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1599 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1601 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1602 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1603 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1604 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1605 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1607 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1609 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1611 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1613 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1615 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1616 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1617 compatibility go in contrib.
1619 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1620 instructions in policy manual.
1621 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1624 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1626 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1628 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1629 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1630 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1631 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1633 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1634 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1637 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1639 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1641 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1642 * More detail about changelog format names.
1644 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1645 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1649 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1651 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1653 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1655 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1657 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1659 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1661 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1663 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1664 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1665 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1667 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1669 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1671 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1673 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1675 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1679 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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