1 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
9 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
10 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
15 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
25 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
29 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
30 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
34 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
39 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
40 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
42 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
44 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
45 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
47 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
49 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
50 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
56 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
61 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
62 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
66 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
68 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
69 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
70 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
71 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
72 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
73 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
74 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
75 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
76 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
78 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
79 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
81 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
83 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
89 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
92 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
93 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
94 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
95 and distribution license' (three times).
96 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
97 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
102 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
104 Proposed by Santiago Vila
105 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
112 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
113 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
117 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
118 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
119 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
122 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
124 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
125 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
129 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
130 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
133 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
135 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
136 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
139 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
141 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
142 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
145 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
147 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
148 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
149 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
152 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
153 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
158 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
159 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
163 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
164 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
168 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
169 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
170 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
174 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
175 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
176 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
179 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
180 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
185 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
186 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
190 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
191 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
192 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
193 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
194 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
195 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
196 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
197 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
198 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
199 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
200 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
201 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
202 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
203 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
204 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
205 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
206 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
207 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
208 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
209 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
210 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
211 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
212 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
213 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
214 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
215 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
216 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
217 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
218 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
219 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
220 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
221 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
223 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
225 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
227 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
231 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
233 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
234 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
238 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
241 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
242 Wording: Steve Langasek.
243 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
244 Seconded: Julien Cristau
245 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
248 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
249 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
250 Seconded: Russ Allbery
251 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
254 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
255 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
256 Seconded: Russ Allbery
258 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
259 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
260 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
261 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
262 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
263 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
264 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
265 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
268 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
269 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
270 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
271 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
272 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
273 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
274 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
276 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
277 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
278 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
279 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
280 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
281 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
282 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
285 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
286 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
287 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
288 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
289 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
291 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
294 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
295 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
298 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
299 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
302 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
304 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
307 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
311 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
312 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
316 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
317 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
321 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
322 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
325 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
326 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
328 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
329 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
334 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
335 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
339 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
340 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
344 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
345 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
349 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
350 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
354 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
355 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
359 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
360 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
361 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
362 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
363 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
364 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
365 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
366 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
367 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
368 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
369 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
370 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
371 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
372 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
373 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
375 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
376 Source field descriptions.
377 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
378 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
379 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
380 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
381 description says otherwise.
383 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
385 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
389 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
392 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
393 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
395 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
396 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
400 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
401 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
405 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
406 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
410 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
411 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
412 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
413 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
417 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
418 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
419 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
420 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
421 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
423 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
424 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
428 * Add myself to Uploaders.
431 * Add myself to Uploaders.
432 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
434 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
435 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
436 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
438 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
440 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
443 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
447 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
448 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
450 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
452 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
453 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
457 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
458 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
460 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
462 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
463 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
467 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
468 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
472 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
475 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
477 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
478 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
480 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
482 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
483 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
484 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
487 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
488 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
492 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
493 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
495 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
496 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
498 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
499 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
500 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
501 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
502 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
503 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
504 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
505 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
506 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
507 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
508 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
509 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
510 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
511 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
512 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
513 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
514 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
515 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
516 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
517 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
518 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
519 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
520 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
521 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
522 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
523 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
524 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
525 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
526 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
527 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
529 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
530 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
531 links was completed long ago.
532 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
534 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
536 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
539 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
541 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
543 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
546 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
547 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
548 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
549 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
550 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
551 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
552 Millan (Closes: #209008).
553 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
554 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
556 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
558 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
560 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
561 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
562 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
563 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
564 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
565 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
566 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
568 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
569 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
570 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
571 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
573 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
574 Küster (Closes: #403391).
575 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
576 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
577 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
578 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
579 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
580 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
584 Closes: #186700, #458910
585 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
586 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
589 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
590 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
591 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
592 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
593 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
594 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
595 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
596 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
598 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
599 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
601 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
602 * Add an md5sums control file.
603 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
604 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
605 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
606 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
607 currently part of policy.
608 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
609 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
610 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
613 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
615 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
618 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
619 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
620 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
621 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
622 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
623 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
624 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
625 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
626 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
627 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
628 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
629 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
630 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
631 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
632 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
634 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
636 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
637 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
638 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
640 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
641 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
642 list?" (Closes: #412634).
643 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
644 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
645 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
646 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
647 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
648 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
649 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
650 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
651 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
652 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
653 debconf specification.
654 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
655 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
657 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
659 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
662 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
663 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
664 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
665 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
667 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
669 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
670 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
671 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
672 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
673 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
675 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
676 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
677 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
678 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
679 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
680 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
681 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
682 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
683 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
684 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
685 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
686 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
687 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
688 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
689 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
690 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
692 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
694 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
695 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
696 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
697 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
698 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
699 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
700 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
701 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
703 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
705 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
708 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
709 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
710 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
711 Polo (Closes: #372497).
712 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
713 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
715 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
716 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
717 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
718 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
719 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
720 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
721 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
722 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
723 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
724 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
726 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
727 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
728 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
729 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
730 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
731 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
733 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
735 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
738 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
739 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
740 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
742 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
743 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
745 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
747 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
750 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
751 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
752 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
753 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
754 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
755 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
756 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
757 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
758 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
760 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
761 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
762 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
763 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
764 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
765 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
766 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
767 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
768 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
769 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
770 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
773 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
775 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
778 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
779 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
780 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
781 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
782 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
783 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
784 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
785 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
786 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
787 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
788 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
789 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
790 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
791 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
792 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
793 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
794 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
795 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
796 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
797 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
798 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
799 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
800 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
801 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
802 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
803 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
804 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
806 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
807 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
808 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
809 Hess (Closes: #362247).
810 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
811 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
812 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
813 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
814 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
815 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
816 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
817 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
818 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
819 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
820 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
821 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
823 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
824 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
826 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
827 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
828 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
829 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
830 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
831 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
832 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
833 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
834 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
835 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
836 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
838 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
840 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
844 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
845 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
846 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
847 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
848 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
849 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
850 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
851 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
852 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
853 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
854 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
855 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
857 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
858 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
859 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
860 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
861 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
863 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
864 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
865 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
866 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
867 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
868 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
869 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
870 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
871 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
872 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
873 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
874 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
875 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
878 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
880 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
883 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
884 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
885 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
887 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
888 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
890 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
892 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
894 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
898 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
899 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
900 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
901 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
902 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
903 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
904 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
905 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
906 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
908 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
909 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
910 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
912 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
913 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
914 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
915 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
916 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
917 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
918 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
920 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
921 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
922 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
923 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
925 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
926 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
927 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
928 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
929 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
930 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
931 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
932 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
934 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
935 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
936 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
937 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
938 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
939 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
940 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
941 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
942 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
943 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
944 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
945 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
946 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
947 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
948 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
949 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
950 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
952 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
954 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
957 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
958 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
959 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
960 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
961 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
962 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
963 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
964 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
965 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
967 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
968 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
969 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
970 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
971 this section. closes: Bug#248618
972 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
973 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
974 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
975 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
976 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
977 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
978 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
979 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
980 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
981 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
982 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
983 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
985 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
986 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
987 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
990 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
991 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
992 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
994 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
995 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
996 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
997 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
998 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
999 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1001 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1002 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1004 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1005 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1006 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1007 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1008 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1009 Closes: #185943, #237049
1011 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1013 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1019 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1020 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1021 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1022 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1023 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1024 running. closes: Bug#187250
1025 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1026 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1027 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1028 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1029 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1030 user closes: Bug#176506
1032 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1034 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1038 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1039 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1040 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1041 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1042 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1043 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1044 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1045 deb-building toolchain.
1046 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1047 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1048 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1049 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1050 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1051 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1052 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1053 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1054 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1055 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1056 sections about changelog files.
1058 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1059 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1060 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1061 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1062 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1063 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1065 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1066 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1067 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1068 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1069 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1070 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1071 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1072 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1073 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1074 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1075 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1076 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1077 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1078 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1079 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1080 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1081 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1082 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1083 for the restructuring
1085 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1087 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1092 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1093 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1094 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1095 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1096 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1097 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1099 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1100 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1101 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1102 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1103 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1104 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1105 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1107 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1108 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1109 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1110 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1112 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1114 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1118 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1119 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1120 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1121 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1122 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1124 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1125 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1126 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1127 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1129 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1130 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1131 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1132 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1133 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1134 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1135 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1136 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1137 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1138 offtopic stuff, too.
1139 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1140 script should start it, closes: #60979
1141 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1142 "should", closes: #170019
1143 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1144 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1145 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1146 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1147 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1148 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1149 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1150 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1153 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1155 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1159 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1160 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1161 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1162 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1163 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1164 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1165 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1166 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1168 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1169 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1170 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1171 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1172 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1173 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1174 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1175 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1176 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1178 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1179 file, closes: Bug#65764
1181 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1183 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1186 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1187 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1188 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1189 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1190 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1191 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1192 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1193 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1194 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1195 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1196 details. closes: Bug#133030
1197 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1198 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1199 parts of Bug#161455.
1201 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1203 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1206 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1207 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1208 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1209 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1210 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1211 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1212 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1213 not. closes: Bug#139820
1214 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1215 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1216 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1217 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1218 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1219 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1220 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1221 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1222 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1223 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1225 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1227 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1228 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1229 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1230 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1231 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1232 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1233 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1234 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1235 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1236 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1237 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1238 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1239 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1240 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1241 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1242 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1243 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1244 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1245 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1246 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1248 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1249 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1250 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1251 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1252 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1253 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1254 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1256 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1257 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1258 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1259 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1260 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1261 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1262 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1263 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1264 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1266 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1268 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1271 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1272 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1273 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1274 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1275 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1276 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1277 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1278 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1279 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1280 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1281 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1282 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1283 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1284 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1285 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1286 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1287 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1288 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1289 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1290 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1291 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1292 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1294 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1296 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1299 medium, high, emergency.
1300 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1301 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1302 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1303 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1304 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1307 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1308 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1309 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1311 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1312 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1313 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1314 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1315 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1316 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1317 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1320 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1322 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1325 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1326 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1327 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1329 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1330 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1331 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1332 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1333 debian/rules to do this
1334 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1335 patches are incorporated upstream
1336 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1337 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1338 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1339 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1340 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1341 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1343 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1344 system closes: Bug#91249
1345 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1346 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1347 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1348 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1349 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1350 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1351 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1352 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1353 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1354 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1355 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1356 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1357 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1359 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1361 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1364 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1365 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1366 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1368 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1369 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1370 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1372 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1375 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1377 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1380 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1381 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1382 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1383 package for the time being
1384 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1385 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1386 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1387 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1388 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1389 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1390 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1391 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1392 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1393 Build-Depends arch syntax
1394 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1396 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1397 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1399 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1400 from policy maintenance duties.
1401 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1402 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1404 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1406 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1410 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1412 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1415 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1416 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1417 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1418 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1419 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1420 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1421 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1422 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1423 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1424 minor version number for this
1425 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1426 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1427 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1428 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1429 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1430 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1431 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1432 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1433 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1435 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1437 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1440 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1441 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1442 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1443 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1445 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1447 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1448 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1449 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1450 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1451 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1452 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1453 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1454 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1455 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1456 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1457 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1458 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1459 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1460 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1461 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1462 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1465 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1467 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1470 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1472 * Document the Enhances relationship
1473 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1474 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1475 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1476 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1477 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1478 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1480 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1482 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1483 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1484 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1485 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1487 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1488 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1489 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1490 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1491 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1493 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1495 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1498 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1499 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1501 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1502 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1503 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1504 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1505 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1506 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1507 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1508 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1509 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1511 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1513 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1515 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1518 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1519 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1520 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1521 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1522 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1523 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1524 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1525 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1526 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1527 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1528 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1529 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1530 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1531 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1532 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1533 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1534 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1535 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1536 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1537 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1538 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1540 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1541 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1543 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1545 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1548 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1549 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1550 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1551 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1552 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1553 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1554 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1555 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1556 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1557 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1558 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1559 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1560 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1561 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1562 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1563 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1564 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1565 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1566 list closes: Bug#53756
1567 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1568 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1569 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1570 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1571 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1572 policy closes: Bug#53760
1573 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1574 policy closes: Bug#53761
1575 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1576 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1577 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1578 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1579 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1580 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1581 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1582 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1583 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1584 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1585 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1587 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1588 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1589 to install with older fileutils.
1590 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1591 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1592 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1593 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1595 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1596 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1598 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1600 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1603 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1605 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1607 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1610 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1612 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1615 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1618 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1620 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1622 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1624 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1627 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1629 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1631 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1634 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1635 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1636 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1637 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1638 directoried (closes: #41547)
1639 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1640 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1641 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1642 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1643 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1644 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1645 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1646 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1647 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1648 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1649 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1651 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1652 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1653 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1654 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1655 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1656 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1657 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1659 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1660 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1661 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1662 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1664 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1666 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1668 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1669 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1671 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1673 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1676 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1678 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1680 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1683 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1685 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1686 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1687 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1688 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1689 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1690 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1691 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1692 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1693 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1694 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1695 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1696 this closes: Bug#38612
1697 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1698 before. closes: Bug#40864
1700 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1702 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1705 officially uploaded.
1706 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1708 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1709 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1710 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1712 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1713 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1714 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1715 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1716 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1717 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1719 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1720 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1721 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1723 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1725 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1726 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1727 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1728 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1729 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1731 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1733 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1736 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1737 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1738 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1739 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1740 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1741 there). closes: Bug#34233
1742 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1743 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1744 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1745 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1746 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1748 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1750 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1753 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1754 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1755 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1758 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1759 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1760 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1761 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1762 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1765 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1766 number. closes: BUG#25911
1768 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1769 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1770 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1771 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1772 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1773 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1775 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1776 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1777 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1780 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1781 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1782 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1784 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1785 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1786 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1787 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1789 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1790 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1791 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1793 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1795 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1796 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1797 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1798 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1799 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1800 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1801 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1802 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1805 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1807 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1808 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1811 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1813 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1817 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1819 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1822 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1823 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1824 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1825 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1826 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1827 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1828 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1830 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1831 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1833 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1835 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1837 * non-maintainer release
1838 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1839 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1841 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1842 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1843 * no content changes
1844 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1846 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1848 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1852 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1854 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1858 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1859 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1860 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1862 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1863 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1865 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1866 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1867 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1868 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1870 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1871 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1872 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1873 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1874 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1875 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1876 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1878 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1879 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1880 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1883 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1884 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1885 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1887 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1888 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1889 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1891 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1892 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1894 * New version numbering scheme:
1896 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1897 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1898 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1901 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1902 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1903 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1904 differ between the manuals.
1906 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1907 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1908 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1909 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1911 * Packaging changes:
1913 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1914 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1916 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1918 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1920 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1924 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1925 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1926 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1928 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1929 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1932 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1933 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1934 file extension as the referenced file
1936 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1937 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1939 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1940 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1941 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1942 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1945 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1946 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1947 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1949 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1950 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1951 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1952 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1955 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1956 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1959 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1960 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1961 reasonable default configuration
1963 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1964 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1965 by all news servers and clients
1967 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1968 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1969 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1970 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1971 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1973 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1974 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1977 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1979 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1980 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1982 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1985 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1986 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1988 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1989 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1991 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1993 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1995 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1998 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1999 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2000 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2002 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2004 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2005 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2006 * Don't use debstd anymore
2008 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2010 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2013 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2014 contrib/non-free policy
2015 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2016 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2017 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2018 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2019 - new section about `Daemons'
2020 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2021 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2022 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2023 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2024 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2025 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2026 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2027 * SGML source code included in package
2028 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2030 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2032 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2035 - completely reworked structure
2036 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2037 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2038 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2039 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2040 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2041 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2042 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2043 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2044 - mention "orphaned packages"
2045 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2046 distributions' policy
2047 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2048 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2049 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2050 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2051 - added section about arch spec strings
2052 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2053 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2054 - added section about "menus"
2055 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2056 the new documentation policy soon
2057 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2058 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2060 - added section about editors and pagers
2061 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2062 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2063 - added section about device files
2064 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2065 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2066 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2068 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2069 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2070 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2071 - Added new section about obsolete names
2072 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2073 * Fixed package's description
2075 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2077 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2081 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2083 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2086 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2087 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2088 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2090 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2092 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2095 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2096 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2098 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2099 and upload it "byhand" too.
2101 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2103 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2107 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2108 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2109 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2110 functionality must not have the same name.
2111 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2112 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2113 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2114 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2115 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2116 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2117 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2119 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2120 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2121 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2122 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2123 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2124 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2125 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2126 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2129 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2131 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2133 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2135 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2136 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2137 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2138 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2139 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2142 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2144 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2146 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2148 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2149 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2150 description of deb file format.
2151 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2152 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2154 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2156 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2157 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2159 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2161 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2163 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2164 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2165 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2166 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2167 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2168 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2169 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2170 packages in section on Procedure
2171 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2172 a package maintainer
2173 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2174 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2175 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2177 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2178 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2179 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2180 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2181 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2182 on various shlib files
2183 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2184 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2185 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2187 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2189 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2191 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2192 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2193 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2195 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2196 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2197 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2198 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2199 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2201 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2203 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2205 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2207 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2209 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2210 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2211 compatibility go in contrib.
2213 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2214 instructions in policy manual.
2215 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2218 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2220 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2222 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2223 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2224 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2225 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2227 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2228 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2231 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2233 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2235 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2236 * More detail about changelog format names.
2238 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2239 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2243 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2245 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2247 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2249 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2251 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2253 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2255 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2257 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2258 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2259 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2261 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2263 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2265 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2267 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2269 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2273 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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