1 debian-policy (3.8.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
5 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
7 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
8 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
11 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
14 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
15 Wording: Steve Langasek.
16 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
17 Seconded: Julien Cristau
21 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
22 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
23 Seconded: Russ Allbery
24 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
27 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
28 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
29 Seconded: Russ Allbery
31 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
32 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
33 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
34 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
36 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:46:35 -0500
38 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
41 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
45 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
46 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
50 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
51 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
56 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
59 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
60 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
62 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
63 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
68 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
69 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
73 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
74 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
78 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
79 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
83 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
84 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
88 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
89 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
93 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
94 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
95 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
96 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
97 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
98 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
99 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
100 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
101 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
102 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
103 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
104 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
105 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
106 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
107 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
109 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
110 Source field descriptions.
111 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
112 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
113 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
114 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
115 description says otherwise.
117 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
119 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
123 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
126 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
127 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
129 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
130 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
134 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
135 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
139 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
140 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
144 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
145 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
146 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
147 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
151 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
152 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
153 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
154 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
155 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
157 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
158 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
162 * Add myself to Uploaders.
165 * Add myself to Uploaders.
166 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
168 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
169 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
170 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
172 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
174 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
177 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
181 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
182 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
184 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
186 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
187 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
191 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
192 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
194 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
196 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
197 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
201 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
202 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
206 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
207 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
209 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
211 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
212 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
214 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
216 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
217 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
218 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
221 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
222 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
226 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
227 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
230 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
232 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
233 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
234 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
235 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
236 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
237 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
238 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
239 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
240 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
241 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
242 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
243 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
244 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
245 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
246 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
247 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
248 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
249 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
250 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
251 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
252 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
253 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
254 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
255 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
256 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
257 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
258 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
259 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
260 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
261 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
263 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
264 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
265 links was completed long ago.
266 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
268 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
270 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
273 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
275 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
277 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
280 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
281 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
282 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
283 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
284 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
285 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
286 Millan (Closes: #209008).
287 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
288 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
290 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
292 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
294 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
295 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
296 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
297 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
298 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
299 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
300 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
302 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
303 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
304 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
305 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
307 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
308 Küster (Closes: #403391).
309 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
310 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
311 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
312 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
313 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
314 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
318 Closes: #186700, #458910
319 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
320 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
324 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
325 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
326 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
327 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
328 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
329 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
330 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
332 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
333 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
335 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
336 * Add an md5sums control file.
337 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
338 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
339 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
340 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
341 currently part of policy.
342 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
343 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
344 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
347 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
349 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
352 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
353 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
354 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
355 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
356 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
357 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
358 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
359 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
360 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
361 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
362 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
363 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
364 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
365 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
366 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
368 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
370 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
371 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
372 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
374 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
375 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
376 list?" (Closes: #412634).
377 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
378 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
379 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
380 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
381 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
382 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
383 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
384 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
385 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
386 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
387 debconf specification.
388 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
389 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
391 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
393 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
396 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
397 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
398 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
399 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
401 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
403 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
404 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
405 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
406 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
407 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
409 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
410 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
411 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
412 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
413 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
414 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
415 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
416 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
417 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
418 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
419 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
420 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
421 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
422 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
423 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
424 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
426 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
428 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
429 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
430 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
431 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
432 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
433 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
434 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
435 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
437 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
439 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
442 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
443 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
444 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
445 Polo (Closes: #372497).
446 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
447 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
449 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
450 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
451 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
452 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
453 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
454 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
455 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
456 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
457 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
458 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
460 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
461 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
462 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
463 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
464 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
465 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
467 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
469 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
472 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
473 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
474 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
476 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
477 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
479 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
481 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
484 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
485 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
486 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
487 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
488 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
489 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
490 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
491 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
492 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
494 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
495 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
496 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
497 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
498 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
499 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
500 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
501 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
502 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
503 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
504 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
507 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
509 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
512 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
513 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
514 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
515 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
516 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
517 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
518 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
519 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
520 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
521 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
522 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
523 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
524 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
525 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
526 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
527 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
528 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
529 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
530 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
531 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
532 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
533 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
534 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
535 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
536 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
537 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
538 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
540 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
541 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
542 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
543 Hess (Closes: #362247).
544 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
545 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
546 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
547 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
548 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
549 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
550 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
551 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
552 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
553 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
554 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
555 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
557 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
558 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
560 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
561 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
562 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
563 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
564 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
565 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
566 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
567 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
568 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
569 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
570 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
572 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
574 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
578 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
579 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
580 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
581 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
582 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
583 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
584 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
585 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
586 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
587 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
588 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
589 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
591 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
592 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
593 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
594 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
595 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
596 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
597 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
598 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
599 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
600 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
601 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
602 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
603 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
604 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
605 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
606 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
607 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
608 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
609 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
612 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
614 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
617 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
618 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
619 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
621 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
622 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
623 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
624 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
626 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
628 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
632 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
633 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
634 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
635 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
636 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
637 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
638 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
639 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
640 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
642 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
643 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
644 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
646 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
647 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
648 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
649 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
650 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
651 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
652 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
654 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
655 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
656 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
657 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
659 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
660 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
661 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
662 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
663 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
664 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
665 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
666 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
668 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
669 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
670 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
671 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
672 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
673 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
674 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
675 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
676 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
677 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
678 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
679 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
680 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
681 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
682 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
683 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
684 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
686 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
688 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
691 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
692 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
693 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
694 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
695 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
696 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
697 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
698 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
699 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
701 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
702 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
703 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
704 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
705 this section. closes: Bug#248618
706 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
707 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
708 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
709 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
710 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
711 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
712 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
713 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
714 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
715 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
716 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
717 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
719 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
720 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
721 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
724 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
725 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
726 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
728 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
729 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
730 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
731 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
732 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
733 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
735 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
736 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
738 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
739 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
740 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
741 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
742 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
743 Closes: #185943, #237049
745 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
747 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
753 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
754 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
755 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
756 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
757 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
758 running. closes: Bug#187250
759 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
760 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
761 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
762 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
763 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
764 user closes: Bug#176506
766 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
768 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
772 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
773 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
774 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
775 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
776 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
777 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
778 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
779 deb-building toolchain.
780 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
781 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
782 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
783 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
784 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
785 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
786 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
787 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
788 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
789 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
790 sections about changelog files.
792 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
793 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
794 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
795 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
796 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
797 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
799 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
800 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
801 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
802 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
803 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
804 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
805 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
806 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
807 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
808 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
809 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
810 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
811 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
812 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
813 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
814 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
815 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
816 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
817 for the restructuring
819 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
821 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
826 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
827 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
828 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
829 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
830 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
831 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
833 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
834 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
835 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
836 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
837 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
838 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
839 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
841 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
842 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
843 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
844 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
846 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
848 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
852 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
853 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
854 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
855 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
856 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
858 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
859 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
860 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
861 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
863 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
864 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
865 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
866 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
867 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
868 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
869 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
870 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
871 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
873 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
874 script should start it, closes: #60979
875 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
876 "should", closes: #170019
877 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
878 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
879 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
880 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
881 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
882 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
883 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
884 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
887 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
889 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
893 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
894 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
895 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
896 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
897 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
898 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
899 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
900 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
902 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
903 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
904 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
905 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
906 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
907 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
908 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
909 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
910 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
912 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
913 file, closes: Bug#65764
915 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
917 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
920 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
921 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
922 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
923 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
924 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
925 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
926 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
927 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
928 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
929 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
930 details. closes: Bug#133030
931 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
932 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
935 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
937 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
940 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
941 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
942 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
943 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
944 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
945 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
946 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
947 not. closes: Bug#139820
948 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
949 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
950 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
951 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
952 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
953 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
954 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
955 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
956 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
957 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
959 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
961 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
962 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
963 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
964 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
965 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
966 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
967 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
968 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
969 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
970 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
971 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
972 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
973 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
974 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
975 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
976 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
977 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
978 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
979 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
980 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
982 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
983 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
984 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
985 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
986 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
987 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
988 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
990 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
991 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
992 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
993 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
994 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
995 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
996 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
997 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
998 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1000 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1002 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1005 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1006 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1007 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1008 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1009 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1010 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1011 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1012 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1013 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1014 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1015 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1016 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1017 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1018 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1019 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1020 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1021 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1022 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1023 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1024 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1025 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1026 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1028 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1030 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1033 medium, high, emergency.
1034 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1035 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1036 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1037 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1038 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1041 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1042 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1043 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1045 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1046 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1047 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1048 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1049 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1050 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1051 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1054 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1056 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1059 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1060 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1061 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1063 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1064 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1065 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1066 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1067 debian/rules to do this
1068 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1069 patches are incorporated upstream
1070 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1071 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1072 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1073 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1074 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1075 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1077 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1078 system closes: Bug#91249
1079 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1080 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1081 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1082 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1083 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1084 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1085 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1086 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1087 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1088 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1089 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1090 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1091 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1093 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1095 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1098 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1099 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1100 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1102 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1103 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1104 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1106 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1109 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1111 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1114 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1115 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1116 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1117 package for the time being
1118 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1119 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1120 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1121 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1122 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1123 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1124 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1125 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1126 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1127 Build-Depends arch syntax
1128 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1130 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1131 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1133 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1134 from policy maintenance duties.
1135 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1136 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1138 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1140 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1144 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1146 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1149 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1150 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1151 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1152 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1153 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1154 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1155 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1156 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1157 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1158 minor version number for this
1159 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1160 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1161 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1162 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1163 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1164 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1165 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1166 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1167 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1169 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1171 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1174 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1175 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1176 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1177 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1179 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1181 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1182 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1183 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1184 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1185 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1186 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1187 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1188 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1189 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1190 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1191 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1192 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1193 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1194 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1195 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1196 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1199 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1201 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1204 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1206 * Document the Enhances relationship
1207 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1208 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1209 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1210 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1211 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1212 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1214 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1216 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1217 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1218 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1219 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1221 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1222 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1223 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1224 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1225 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1227 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1229 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1232 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1233 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1235 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1236 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1237 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1238 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1239 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1240 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1241 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1242 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1243 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1245 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1247 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1249 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1252 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1253 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1254 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1255 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1256 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1257 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1258 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1259 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1260 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1261 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1262 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1263 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1264 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1265 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1266 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1267 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1268 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1269 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1270 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1271 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1272 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1274 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1275 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1277 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1279 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1282 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1283 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1284 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1285 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1286 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1287 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1288 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1289 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1290 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1291 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1292 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1293 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1294 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1295 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1296 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1297 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1298 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1299 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1300 list closes: Bug#53756
1301 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1302 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1303 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1304 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1305 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1306 policy closes: Bug#53760
1307 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1308 policy closes: Bug#53761
1309 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1310 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1311 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1312 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1313 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1314 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1315 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1316 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1317 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1318 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1319 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1321 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1322 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1323 to install with older fileutils.
1324 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1325 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1326 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1327 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1329 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1330 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1332 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1334 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1337 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1339 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1341 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1344 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1346 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1349 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1352 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1354 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1356 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1358 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1361 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1363 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1365 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1368 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1369 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1370 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1371 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1372 directoried (closes: #41547)
1373 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1374 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1375 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1376 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1377 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1378 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1379 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1380 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1381 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1382 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1383 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1385 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1386 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1387 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1388 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1389 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1390 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1391 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1393 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1394 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1395 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1396 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1398 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1400 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1402 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1403 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1405 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1407 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1410 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1412 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1414 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1417 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1419 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1420 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1421 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1422 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1423 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1424 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1425 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1426 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1427 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1428 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1429 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1430 this closes: Bug#38612
1431 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1432 before. closes: Bug#40864
1434 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1436 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1439 officially uploaded.
1440 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1442 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1443 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1444 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1446 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1447 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1448 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1449 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1450 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1451 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1453 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1454 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1455 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1457 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1459 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1460 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1461 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1462 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1463 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1465 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1467 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1470 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1471 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1472 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1473 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1474 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1475 there). closes: Bug#34233
1476 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1477 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1478 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1479 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1480 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1482 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1484 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1487 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1488 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1489 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1492 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1493 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1494 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1495 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1496 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1499 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1500 number. closes: BUG#25911
1502 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1503 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1504 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1505 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1506 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1507 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1509 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1510 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1511 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1514 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1515 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1516 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1518 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1519 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1520 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1521 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1523 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1524 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1525 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1527 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1529 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1530 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1531 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1532 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1533 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1534 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1535 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1536 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1539 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1541 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1542 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1545 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1547 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1551 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1553 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1556 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1557 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1558 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1559 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1560 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1561 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1562 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1564 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1565 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1567 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1569 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1571 * non-maintainer release
1572 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1573 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1575 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1576 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1577 * no content changes
1578 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1580 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1582 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1586 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1588 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1592 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1593 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1594 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1596 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1597 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1599 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1600 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1601 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1602 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1604 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1605 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1606 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1607 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1608 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1609 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1610 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1612 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1613 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1614 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1617 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1618 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1619 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1621 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1622 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1623 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1625 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1626 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1628 * New version numbering scheme:
1630 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1631 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1632 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1635 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1636 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1637 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1638 differ between the manuals.
1640 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1641 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1642 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1643 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1645 * Packaging changes:
1647 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1648 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1650 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1652 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1654 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1658 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1659 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1660 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1662 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1663 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1666 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1667 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1668 file extension as the referenced file
1670 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1671 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1673 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1674 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1675 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1676 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1679 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1680 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1681 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1683 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1684 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1685 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1686 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1689 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1690 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1693 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1694 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1695 reasonable default configuration
1697 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1698 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1699 by all news servers and clients
1701 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1702 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1703 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1704 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1705 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1707 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1708 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1711 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1713 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1714 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1716 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1719 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1720 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1722 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1723 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1725 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1727 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1729 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1732 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1733 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1734 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1736 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1738 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1739 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1740 * Don't use debstd anymore
1742 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1744 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1747 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1748 contrib/non-free policy
1749 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1750 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1751 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1752 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1753 - new section about `Daemons'
1754 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1755 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1756 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1757 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1758 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1759 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1760 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1761 * SGML source code included in package
1762 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1764 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1766 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1769 - completely reworked structure
1770 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1771 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1772 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1773 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1774 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1775 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1776 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1777 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1778 - mention "orphaned packages"
1779 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1780 distributions' policy
1781 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1782 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1783 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1784 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1785 - added section about arch spec strings
1786 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1787 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1788 - added section about "menus"
1789 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1790 the new documentation policy soon
1791 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1792 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1794 - added section about editors and pagers
1795 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1796 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1797 - added section about device files
1798 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1799 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1800 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1802 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1803 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1804 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1805 - Added new section about obsolete names
1806 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1807 * Fixed package's description
1809 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1811 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1815 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1817 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1820 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1821 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1822 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1824 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1826 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1829 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1830 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1832 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1833 and upload it "byhand" too.
1835 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1837 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1841 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1842 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1843 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1844 functionality must not have the same name.
1845 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1846 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1847 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1848 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1849 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1850 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1851 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1853 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1854 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1855 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1856 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1857 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1858 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1859 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1860 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1863 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1865 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1867 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1869 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1870 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1871 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1872 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1873 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1876 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1878 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1880 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1882 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1883 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1884 description of deb file format.
1885 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1886 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1888 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1890 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1891 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1893 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1895 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1897 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1898 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1899 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1900 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1901 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1902 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1903 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1904 packages in section on Procedure
1905 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1906 a package maintainer
1907 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1908 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1909 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1911 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1912 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1913 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1914 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1915 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1916 on various shlib files
1917 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1918 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1919 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1921 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1923 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1925 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1926 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1927 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1929 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1930 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1931 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1932 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1933 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1935 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1937 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1939 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1941 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1943 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1944 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1945 compatibility go in contrib.
1947 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1948 instructions in policy manual.
1949 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1952 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1954 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1956 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1957 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1958 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1959 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1961 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1962 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1965 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1967 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1969 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1970 * More detail about changelog format names.
1972 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1973 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1977 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1979 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1981 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1983 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1985 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1987 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1989 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1991 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1992 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1993 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1995 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1997 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1999 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2001 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2003 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2007 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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