1 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
9 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
10 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
15 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
25 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
29 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
30 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
34 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
39 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
40 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
42 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
44 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
45 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
47 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
49 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
50 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
56 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
61 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
63 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
64 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
65 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
66 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
67 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
68 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
69 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
70 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
71 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
73 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
74 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
76 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
78 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
84 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
87 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
88 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
89 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
90 and distribution license' (three times).
91 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
92 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
97 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
99 Proposed by Santiago Vila
100 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
107 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
108 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
112 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
113 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
114 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
117 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
119 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
120 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
124 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
125 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
128 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
130 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
131 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
134 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
136 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
137 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
140 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
142 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
143 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
144 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
147 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
148 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
153 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
154 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
158 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
159 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
163 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
164 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
169 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
170 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
171 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
174 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
175 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
180 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
181 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
185 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
186 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
187 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
188 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
189 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
190 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
191 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
192 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
193 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
194 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
195 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
196 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
197 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
198 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
199 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
200 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
201 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
202 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
203 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
204 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
205 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
206 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
207 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
208 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
209 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
210 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
211 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
212 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
213 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
214 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
215 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
216 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
218 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
220 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
222 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
226 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
228 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
229 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
233 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
236 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
237 Wording: Steve Langasek.
238 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
239 Seconded: Julien Cristau
240 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
243 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
244 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
245 Seconded: Russ Allbery
246 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
249 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
250 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
251 Seconded: Russ Allbery
253 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
254 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
255 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
256 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
257 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
258 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
259 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
260 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
263 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
264 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
265 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
266 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
267 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
268 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
269 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
270 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
271 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
272 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
273 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
274 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
275 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
276 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
277 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
280 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
281 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
282 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
283 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
284 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
286 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
289 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
290 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
293 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
294 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
297 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
299 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
302 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
306 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
307 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
311 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
316 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
317 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
320 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
321 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
323 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
324 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
329 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
330 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
334 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
335 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
339 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
340 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
344 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
345 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
349 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
350 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
354 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
355 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
356 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
357 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
358 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
359 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
360 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
361 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
362 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
363 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
364 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
365 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
366 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
367 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
368 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
370 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
371 Source field descriptions.
372 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
373 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
374 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
375 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
376 description says otherwise.
378 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
380 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
384 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
387 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
388 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
390 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
391 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
395 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
396 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
400 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
401 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
405 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
406 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
407 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
408 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
412 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
413 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
414 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
415 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
416 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
418 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
419 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
423 * Add myself to Uploaders.
426 * Add myself to Uploaders.
427 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
429 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
430 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
431 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
433 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
435 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
438 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
442 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
443 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
445 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
447 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
448 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
452 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
453 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
455 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
457 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
458 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
462 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
463 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
467 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
468 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
470 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
472 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
475 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
477 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
478 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
479 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
482 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
483 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
487 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
488 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
491 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
493 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
494 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
495 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
496 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
497 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
498 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
499 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
500 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
501 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
502 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
503 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
504 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
505 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
506 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
507 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
508 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
509 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
510 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
511 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
512 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
513 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
514 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
515 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
516 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
517 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
518 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
519 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
520 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
521 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
522 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
524 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
525 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
526 links was completed long ago.
527 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
529 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
531 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
534 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
536 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
538 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
541 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
542 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
543 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
544 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
545 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
546 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
547 Millan (Closes: #209008).
548 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
549 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
551 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
553 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
555 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
556 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
557 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
558 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
559 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
560 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
561 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
563 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
564 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
565 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
566 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
568 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
569 Küster (Closes: #403391).
570 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
571 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
572 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
573 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
574 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
575 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
579 Closes: #186700, #458910
580 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
581 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
584 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
585 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
586 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
587 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
588 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
589 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
590 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
591 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
593 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
594 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
596 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
597 * Add an md5sums control file.
598 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
599 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
600 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
601 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
602 currently part of policy.
603 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
604 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
605 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
608 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
610 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
613 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
614 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
615 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
616 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
617 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
618 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
619 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
620 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
621 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
622 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
623 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
624 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
625 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
626 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
627 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
629 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
631 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
632 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
633 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
635 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
636 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
637 list?" (Closes: #412634).
638 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
639 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
640 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
641 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
642 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
643 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
644 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
645 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
646 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
647 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
648 debconf specification.
649 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
650 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
652 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
654 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
657 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
658 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
659 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
660 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
662 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
664 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
665 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
666 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
667 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
668 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
670 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
671 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
672 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
673 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
674 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
675 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
676 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
677 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
678 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
679 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
680 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
681 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
682 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
683 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
684 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
685 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
687 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
689 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
690 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
691 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
692 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
693 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
694 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
695 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
696 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
698 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
700 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
703 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
704 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
705 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
706 Polo (Closes: #372497).
707 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
708 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
710 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
711 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
712 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
713 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
714 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
715 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
716 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
717 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
718 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
719 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
721 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
722 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
723 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
724 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
725 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
726 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
728 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
730 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
733 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
734 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
735 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
737 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
738 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
740 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
742 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
745 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
746 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
747 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
748 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
749 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
750 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
751 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
752 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
753 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
755 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
756 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
757 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
758 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
759 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
760 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
761 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
762 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
763 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
764 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
765 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
768 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
770 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
773 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
774 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
775 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
776 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
777 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
778 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
779 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
780 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
781 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
782 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
783 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
784 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
785 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
786 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
787 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
788 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
789 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
790 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
791 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
792 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
793 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
794 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
795 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
796 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
797 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
798 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
799 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
801 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
802 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
803 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
804 Hess (Closes: #362247).
805 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
806 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
807 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
808 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
809 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
810 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
811 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
812 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
813 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
814 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
815 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
816 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
818 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
819 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
821 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
822 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
823 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
824 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
825 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
826 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
827 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
828 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
829 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
830 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
831 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
833 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
835 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
839 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
840 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
841 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
842 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
843 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
844 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
845 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
846 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
847 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
848 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
849 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
850 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
852 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
853 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
854 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
855 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
856 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
857 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
858 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
859 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
860 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
861 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
862 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
863 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
864 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
865 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
866 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
867 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
868 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
869 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
870 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
873 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
875 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
878 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
879 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
880 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
882 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
883 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
884 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
885 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
887 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
889 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
893 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
894 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
895 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
896 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
897 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
898 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
899 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
900 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
901 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
903 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
904 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
905 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
907 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
908 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
909 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
910 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
911 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
912 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
913 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
915 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
916 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
917 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
918 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
920 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
921 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
922 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
923 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
924 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
925 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
926 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
927 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
929 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
930 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
931 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
932 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
933 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
934 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
935 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
936 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
937 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
938 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
939 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
940 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
941 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
942 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
943 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
944 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
945 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
947 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
949 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
952 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
953 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
954 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
955 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
956 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
957 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
958 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
959 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
960 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
962 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
963 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
964 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
965 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
966 this section. closes: Bug#248618
967 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
968 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
969 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
970 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
971 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
972 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
973 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
974 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
975 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
976 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
977 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
978 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
980 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
981 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
982 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
985 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
986 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
987 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
989 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
990 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
991 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
992 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
993 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
994 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
996 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
997 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
999 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1000 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1001 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1002 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1003 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1004 Closes: #185943, #237049
1006 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1008 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1014 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1015 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1016 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1017 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1018 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1019 running. closes: Bug#187250
1020 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1021 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1022 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1023 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1024 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1025 user closes: Bug#176506
1027 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1029 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1033 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1034 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1035 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1036 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1037 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1038 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1039 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1040 deb-building toolchain.
1041 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1042 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1043 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1044 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1045 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1046 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1047 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1048 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1049 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1050 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1051 sections about changelog files.
1053 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1054 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1055 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1056 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1057 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1058 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1060 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1061 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1062 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1063 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1064 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1065 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1066 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1067 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1068 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1069 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1070 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1071 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1072 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1073 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1074 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1075 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1076 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1077 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1078 for the restructuring
1080 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1082 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1087 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1088 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1089 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1090 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1091 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1092 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1094 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1095 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1096 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1097 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1098 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1099 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1100 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1102 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1103 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1104 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1105 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1107 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1109 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1113 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1114 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1115 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1116 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1117 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1119 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1120 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1121 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1122 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1124 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1125 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1126 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1127 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1128 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1129 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1130 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1131 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1132 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1133 offtopic stuff, too.
1134 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1135 script should start it, closes: #60979
1136 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1137 "should", closes: #170019
1138 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1139 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1140 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1141 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1142 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1143 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1144 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1145 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1148 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1150 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1154 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1155 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1156 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1157 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1158 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1159 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1160 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1161 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1163 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1164 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1165 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1166 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1167 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1168 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1169 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1170 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1171 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1173 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1174 file, closes: Bug#65764
1176 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1178 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1181 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1182 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1183 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1184 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1185 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1186 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1187 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1188 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1189 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1190 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1191 details. closes: Bug#133030
1192 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1193 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1194 parts of Bug#161455.
1196 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1198 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1201 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1202 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1203 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1204 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1205 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1206 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1207 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1208 not. closes: Bug#139820
1209 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1210 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1211 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1212 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1213 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1214 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1215 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1216 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1217 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1218 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1220 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1222 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1223 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1224 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1225 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1226 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1227 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1228 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1229 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1230 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1231 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1232 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1233 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1234 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1235 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1236 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1237 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1238 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1239 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1240 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1241 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1243 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1244 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1245 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1246 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1247 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1248 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1249 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1251 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1252 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1253 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1254 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1255 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1256 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1257 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1258 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1259 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1261 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1263 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1266 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1267 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1268 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1269 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1270 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1271 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1272 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1273 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1274 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1275 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1276 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1277 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1278 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1279 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1280 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1281 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1282 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1283 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1284 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1285 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1286 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1287 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1289 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1291 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1294 medium, high, emergency.
1295 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1296 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1297 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1298 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1299 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1302 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1303 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1304 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1306 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1307 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1308 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1309 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1310 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1311 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1312 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1315 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1317 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1320 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1321 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1322 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1324 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1325 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1326 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1327 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1328 debian/rules to do this
1329 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1330 patches are incorporated upstream
1331 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1332 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1333 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1334 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1335 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1336 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1338 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1339 system closes: Bug#91249
1340 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1341 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1342 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1343 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1344 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1345 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1346 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1347 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1348 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1349 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1350 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1351 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1352 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1354 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1356 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1359 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1360 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1361 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1363 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1364 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1365 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1367 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1370 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1372 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1375 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1376 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1377 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1378 package for the time being
1379 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1380 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1381 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1382 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1383 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1384 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1385 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1386 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1387 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1388 Build-Depends arch syntax
1389 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1391 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1392 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1394 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1395 from policy maintenance duties.
1396 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1397 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1399 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1401 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1405 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1407 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1410 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1411 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1412 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1413 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1414 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1415 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1416 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1417 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1418 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1419 minor version number for this
1420 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1421 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1422 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1423 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1424 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1425 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1426 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1427 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1428 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1430 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1432 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1435 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1436 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1437 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1438 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1440 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1442 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1443 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1444 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1445 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1446 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1447 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1448 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1449 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1450 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1451 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1452 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1453 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1454 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1455 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1456 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1457 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1460 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1462 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1465 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1467 * Document the Enhances relationship
1468 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1469 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1470 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1471 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1472 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1473 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1475 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1477 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1478 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1479 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1480 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1482 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1483 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1484 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1485 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1486 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1488 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1490 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1493 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1494 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1496 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1497 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1498 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1499 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1500 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1501 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1502 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1503 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1504 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1506 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1508 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1510 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1513 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1514 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1515 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1516 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1517 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1518 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1519 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1520 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1521 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1522 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1523 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1524 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1525 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1526 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1527 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1528 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1529 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1530 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1531 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1532 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1533 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1535 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1536 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1538 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1540 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1543 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1544 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1545 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1546 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1547 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1548 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1549 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1550 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1551 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1552 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1553 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1554 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1555 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1556 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1557 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1558 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1559 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1560 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1561 list closes: Bug#53756
1562 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1563 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1564 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1565 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1566 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1567 policy closes: Bug#53760
1568 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1569 policy closes: Bug#53761
1570 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1571 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1572 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1573 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1574 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1575 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1576 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1577 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1578 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1579 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1580 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1582 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1583 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1584 to install with older fileutils.
1585 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1586 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1587 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1588 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1590 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1591 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1593 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1595 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1598 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1600 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1602 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1605 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1607 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1610 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1613 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1615 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1617 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1619 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1622 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1624 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1626 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1629 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1630 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1631 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1632 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1633 directoried (closes: #41547)
1634 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1635 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1636 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1637 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1638 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1639 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1640 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1641 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1642 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1643 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1644 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1646 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1647 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1648 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1649 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1650 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1651 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1652 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1654 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1655 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1656 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1657 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1659 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1661 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1663 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1664 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1666 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1668 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1671 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1673 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1675 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1678 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1680 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1681 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1682 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1683 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1684 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1685 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1686 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1687 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1688 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1689 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1690 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1691 this closes: Bug#38612
1692 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1693 before. closes: Bug#40864
1695 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1697 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1700 officially uploaded.
1701 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1703 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1704 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1705 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1707 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1708 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1709 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1710 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1711 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1712 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1714 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1715 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1716 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1718 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1720 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1721 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1722 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1723 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1724 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1726 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1728 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1731 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1732 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1733 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1734 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1735 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1736 there). closes: Bug#34233
1737 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1738 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1739 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1740 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1741 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1743 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1745 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1748 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1749 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1750 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1753 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1754 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1755 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1756 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1757 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1760 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1761 number. closes: BUG#25911
1763 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1764 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1765 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1766 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1767 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1768 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1770 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1771 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1772 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1775 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1776 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1777 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1779 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1780 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1781 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1782 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1784 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1785 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1786 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1788 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1790 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1791 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1792 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1793 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1794 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1795 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1796 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1797 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1800 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1802 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1803 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1806 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1808 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1812 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1814 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1817 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1818 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1819 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1820 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1821 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1822 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1823 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1825 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1826 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1828 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1830 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1832 * non-maintainer release
1833 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1834 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1836 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1837 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1838 * no content changes
1839 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1841 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1843 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1847 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1849 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1853 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1854 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1855 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1857 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1858 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1860 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1861 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1862 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1863 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1865 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1866 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1867 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1868 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1869 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1870 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1871 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1873 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1874 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1875 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1878 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1879 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1880 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1882 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1883 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1884 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1886 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1887 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1889 * New version numbering scheme:
1891 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1892 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1893 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1896 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1897 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1898 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1899 differ between the manuals.
1901 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1902 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1903 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1904 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1906 * Packaging changes:
1908 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1909 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1911 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1913 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1915 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1919 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1920 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1921 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1923 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1924 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1927 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1928 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1929 file extension as the referenced file
1931 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1932 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1934 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1935 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1936 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1937 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1940 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1941 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1942 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1944 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1945 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1946 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1947 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1950 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1951 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1954 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1955 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1956 reasonable default configuration
1958 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1959 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1960 by all news servers and clients
1962 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1963 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1964 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1965 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1966 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1968 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1969 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1972 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1974 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1975 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1977 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1980 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1981 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1983 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1984 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1986 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1988 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1990 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1993 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1994 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1995 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1997 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1999 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2000 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2001 * Don't use debstd anymore
2003 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2005 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2008 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2009 contrib/non-free policy
2010 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2011 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2012 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2013 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2014 - new section about `Daemons'
2015 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2016 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2017 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2018 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2019 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2020 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2021 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2022 * SGML source code included in package
2023 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2025 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2027 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2030 - completely reworked structure
2031 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2032 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2033 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2034 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2035 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2036 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2037 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2038 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2039 - mention "orphaned packages"
2040 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2041 distributions' policy
2042 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2043 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2044 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2045 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2046 - added section about arch spec strings
2047 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2048 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2049 - added section about "menus"
2050 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2051 the new documentation policy soon
2052 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2053 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2055 - added section about editors and pagers
2056 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2057 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2058 - added section about device files
2059 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2060 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2061 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2063 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2064 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2065 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2066 - Added new section about obsolete names
2067 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2068 * Fixed package's description
2070 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2072 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2076 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2078 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2081 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2082 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2083 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2085 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2087 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2090 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2091 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2093 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2094 and upload it "byhand" too.
2096 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2098 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2102 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2103 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2104 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2105 functionality must not have the same name.
2106 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2107 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2108 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2109 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2110 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2111 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2112 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2114 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2115 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2116 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2117 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2118 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2119 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2120 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2121 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2124 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2126 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2128 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2130 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2131 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2132 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2133 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2134 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2137 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2139 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2141 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2143 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2144 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2145 description of deb file format.
2146 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2147 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2149 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2151 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2152 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2154 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2156 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2158 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2159 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2160 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2161 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2162 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2163 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2164 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2165 packages in section on Procedure
2166 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2167 a package maintainer
2168 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2169 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2170 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2172 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2173 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2174 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2175 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2176 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2177 on various shlib files
2178 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2179 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2180 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2182 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2184 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2186 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2187 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2188 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2190 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2191 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2192 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2193 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2194 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2196 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2198 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2200 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2202 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2204 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2205 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2206 compatibility go in contrib.
2208 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2209 instructions in policy manual.
2210 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2213 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2215 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2217 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2218 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2219 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2220 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2222 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2223 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2226 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2228 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2230 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2231 * More detail about changelog format names.
2233 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2234 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2238 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2240 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2242 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2244 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2246 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2248 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2250 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2252 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2253 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2254 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2256 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2258 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2260 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2262 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2264 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2268 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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