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 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
51 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
52 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
53 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
54 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
55 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
56 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
57 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
59 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
61 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
67 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
70 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
71 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
72 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
73 and distribution license' (three times).
74 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
75 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
80 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
82 Proposed by Santiago Vila
83 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
90 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
91 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
95 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
96 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
97 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
100 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
102 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
103 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
107 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
108 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
111 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
113 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
114 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
117 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
119 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
120 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
123 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
126 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
127 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
130 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
131 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
136 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
137 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
141 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
142 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
146 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
147 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
148 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
152 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
153 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
154 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
157 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
158 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
163 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
164 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
168 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
169 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
170 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
171 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
172 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
173 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
174 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
175 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
176 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
177 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
178 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
179 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
180 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
181 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
182 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
183 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
184 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
185 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
186 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
187 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
188 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
189 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
190 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
191 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
192 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
193 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
194 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
195 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
196 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
197 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
198 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
199 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
201 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
203 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
205 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
209 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
211 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
212 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
216 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
219 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
220 Wording: Steve Langasek.
221 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
222 Seconded: Julien Cristau
223 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
226 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
227 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
228 Seconded: Russ Allbery
229 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
232 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
233 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
234 Seconded: Russ Allbery
236 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
237 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
238 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
239 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
240 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
241 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
242 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
243 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
246 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
247 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
248 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
249 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
250 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
251 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
252 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
254 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
255 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
256 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
257 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
258 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
259 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
260 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
263 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
264 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
265 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
266 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
267 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
269 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
272 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
273 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
276 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
277 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
280 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
282 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
284 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
285 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
289 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
290 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
294 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
295 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
299 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
300 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
303 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
304 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
306 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
307 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
312 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
313 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
317 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
318 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
322 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
323 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
327 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
328 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
332 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
333 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
337 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
338 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
339 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
340 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
341 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
342 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
343 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
344 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
345 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
346 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
347 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
348 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
349 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
350 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
351 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
353 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
354 Source field descriptions.
355 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
356 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
357 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
358 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
359 description says otherwise.
361 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
363 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
367 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
370 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
371 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
373 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
374 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
378 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
379 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
383 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
384 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
388 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
389 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
390 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
391 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
395 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
396 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
397 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
398 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
399 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
401 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
402 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
406 * Add myself to Uploaders.
409 * Add myself to Uploaders.
410 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
412 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
413 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
414 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
416 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
418 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
420 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
421 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
425 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
426 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
428 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
430 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
431 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
435 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
436 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
438 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
440 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
441 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
445 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
446 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
450 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
451 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
453 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
455 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
456 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
458 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
460 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
461 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
462 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
465 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
466 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
470 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
471 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
474 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
476 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
477 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
478 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
479 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
480 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
481 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
482 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
483 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
484 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
485 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
486 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
487 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
488 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
489 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
490 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
491 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
492 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
493 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
494 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
495 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
496 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
497 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
498 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
499 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
500 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
501 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
502 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
503 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
504 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
505 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
507 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
508 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
509 links was completed long ago.
510 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
512 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
514 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
517 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
519 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
521 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
524 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
525 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
526 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
527 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
528 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
529 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
530 Millan (Closes: #209008).
531 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
532 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
534 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
536 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
538 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
539 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
540 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
541 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
542 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
543 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
544 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
546 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
547 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
548 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
549 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
551 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
552 Küster (Closes: #403391).
553 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
554 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
555 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
556 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
557 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
558 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
561 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
562 Closes: #186700, #458910
563 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
564 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
567 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
568 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
569 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
570 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
571 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
572 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
573 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
574 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
576 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
577 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
579 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
580 * Add an md5sums control file.
581 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
582 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
583 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
584 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
585 currently part of policy.
586 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
587 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
588 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
591 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
593 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
596 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
597 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
598 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
599 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
600 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
601 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
602 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
603 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
604 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
605 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
606 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
607 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
608 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
609 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
610 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
612 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
614 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
615 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
616 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
618 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
619 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
620 list?" (Closes: #412634).
621 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
622 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
623 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
624 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
625 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
626 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
627 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
628 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
629 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
630 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
631 debconf specification.
632 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
633 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
635 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
637 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
640 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
641 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
642 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
643 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
645 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
647 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
648 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
649 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
650 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
651 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
653 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
654 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
655 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
656 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
657 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
658 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
659 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
660 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
661 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
662 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
663 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
664 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
665 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
666 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
667 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
668 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
670 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
672 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
673 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
674 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
675 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
676 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
677 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
678 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
679 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
681 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
683 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
686 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
687 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
688 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
689 Polo (Closes: #372497).
690 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
691 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
693 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
694 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
695 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
696 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
697 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
698 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
699 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
700 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
701 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
702 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
704 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
705 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
706 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
707 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
708 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
709 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
711 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
713 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
716 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
717 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
718 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
720 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
721 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
723 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
725 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
728 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
729 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
730 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
731 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
732 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
733 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
734 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
735 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
736 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
738 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
739 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
740 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
741 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
742 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
743 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
744 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
745 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
746 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
747 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
748 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
751 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
753 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
756 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
757 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
758 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
759 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
760 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
761 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
762 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
763 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
764 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
765 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
766 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
767 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
768 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
769 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
770 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
771 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
772 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
773 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
774 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
775 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
776 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
777 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
778 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
779 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
780 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
781 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
782 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
784 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
785 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
786 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
787 Hess (Closes: #362247).
788 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
789 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
790 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
791 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
792 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
793 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
794 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
795 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
796 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
797 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
798 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
799 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
801 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
802 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
804 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
805 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
806 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
807 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
808 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
809 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
810 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
811 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
812 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
813 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
814 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
816 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
818 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
822 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
823 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
824 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
825 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
826 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
827 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
828 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
829 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
830 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
831 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
832 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
833 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
835 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
836 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
837 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
838 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
839 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
840 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
841 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
842 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
843 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
844 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
845 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
846 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
847 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
848 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
849 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
850 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
851 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
852 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
853 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
856 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
858 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
861 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
862 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
863 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
865 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
866 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
867 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
868 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
870 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
872 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
876 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
877 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
878 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
879 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
880 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
881 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
882 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
883 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
884 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
886 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
887 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
888 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
890 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
891 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
892 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
893 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
894 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
895 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
896 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
898 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
899 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
900 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
901 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
903 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
904 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
905 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
906 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
907 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
908 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
909 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
910 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
912 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
913 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
914 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
915 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
916 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
917 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
918 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
919 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
920 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
921 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
922 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
923 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
924 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
925 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
926 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
927 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
928 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
930 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
932 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
935 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
936 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
937 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
938 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
939 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
940 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
941 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
942 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
943 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
945 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
946 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
947 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
948 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
949 this section. closes: Bug#248618
950 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
951 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
952 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
953 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
954 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
955 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
956 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
957 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
958 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
959 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
960 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
961 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
963 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
964 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
965 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
968 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
969 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
970 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
972 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
973 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
974 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
975 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
976 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
977 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
979 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
980 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
982 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
983 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
984 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
985 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
986 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
987 Closes: #185943, #237049
989 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
991 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
997 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
998 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
999 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1000 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1001 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1002 running. closes: Bug#187250
1003 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1004 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1005 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1006 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1007 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1008 user closes: Bug#176506
1010 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1012 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1016 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1017 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1018 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1019 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1020 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1021 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1022 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1023 deb-building toolchain.
1024 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1025 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1026 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1027 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1028 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1029 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1030 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1031 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1032 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1033 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1034 sections about changelog files.
1036 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1037 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1038 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1039 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1040 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1041 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1043 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1044 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1045 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1046 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1047 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1048 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1049 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1050 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1051 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1052 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1053 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1054 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1055 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1056 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1057 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1058 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1059 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1060 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1061 for the restructuring
1063 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1065 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1070 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1071 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1072 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1073 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1074 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1075 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1077 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1078 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1079 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1080 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1081 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1082 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1083 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1085 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1086 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1087 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1088 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1090 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1092 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1096 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1097 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1098 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1099 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1100 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1102 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1103 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1104 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1105 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1107 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1108 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1109 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1110 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1111 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1112 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1113 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1114 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1115 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1116 offtopic stuff, too.
1117 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1118 script should start it, closes: #60979
1119 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1120 "should", closes: #170019
1121 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1122 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1123 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1124 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1125 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1126 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1127 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1128 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1131 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1133 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1137 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1138 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1139 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1140 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1141 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1142 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1143 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1144 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1146 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1147 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1148 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1149 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1150 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1151 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1152 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1153 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1154 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1156 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1157 file, closes: Bug#65764
1159 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1161 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1164 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1165 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1166 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1167 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1168 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1169 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1170 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1171 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1172 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1173 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1174 details. closes: Bug#133030
1175 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1176 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1177 parts of Bug#161455.
1179 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1181 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1184 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1185 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1186 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1187 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1188 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1189 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1190 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1191 not. closes: Bug#139820
1192 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1193 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1194 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1195 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1196 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1197 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1198 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1199 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1200 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1201 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1203 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1205 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1206 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1207 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1208 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1209 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1210 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1211 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1212 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1213 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1214 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1215 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1216 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1217 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1218 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1219 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1220 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1221 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1222 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1223 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1224 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1226 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1227 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1228 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1229 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1230 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1231 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1232 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1234 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1235 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1236 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1237 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1238 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1239 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1240 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1241 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1242 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1244 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1246 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1249 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1250 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1251 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1252 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1253 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1254 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1255 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1256 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1257 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1258 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1259 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1260 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1261 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1262 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1263 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1264 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1265 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1266 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1267 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1268 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1269 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1270 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1272 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1274 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1277 medium, high, emergency.
1278 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1279 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1280 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1281 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1282 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1285 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1286 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1287 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1289 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1290 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1291 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1292 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1293 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1294 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1295 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1298 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1300 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1303 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1304 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1305 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1307 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1308 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1309 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1310 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1311 debian/rules to do this
1312 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1313 patches are incorporated upstream
1314 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1315 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1316 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1317 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1318 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1319 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1321 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1322 system closes: Bug#91249
1323 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1324 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1325 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1326 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1327 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1328 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1329 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1330 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1331 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1332 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1333 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1334 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1335 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1337 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1339 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1342 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1343 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1344 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1346 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1347 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1348 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1350 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1353 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1355 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1358 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1359 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1360 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1361 package for the time being
1362 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1363 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1364 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1365 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1366 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1367 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1368 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1369 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1370 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1371 Build-Depends arch syntax
1372 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1374 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1375 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1377 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1378 from policy maintenance duties.
1379 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1380 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1382 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1384 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1388 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1390 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1393 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1394 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1395 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1396 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1397 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1398 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1399 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1400 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1401 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1402 minor version number for this
1403 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1404 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1405 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1406 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1407 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1408 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1409 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1410 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1411 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1413 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1415 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1418 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1419 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1420 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1421 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1423 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1425 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1426 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1427 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1428 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1429 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1430 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1431 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1432 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1433 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1434 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1435 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1436 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1437 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1438 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1439 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1440 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1443 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1445 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1448 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1450 * Document the Enhances relationship
1451 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1452 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1453 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1454 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1455 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1456 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1458 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1460 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1461 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1462 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1463 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1465 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1466 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1467 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1468 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1469 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1471 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1473 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1476 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1477 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1479 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1480 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1481 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1482 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1483 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1484 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1485 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1486 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1487 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1489 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1491 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1493 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1496 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1497 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1498 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1499 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1500 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1501 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1502 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1503 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1504 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1505 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1506 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1507 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1508 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1509 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1510 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1511 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1512 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1513 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1514 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1515 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1516 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1518 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1519 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1521 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1523 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1526 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1527 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1528 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1529 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1530 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1531 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1532 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1533 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1534 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1535 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1536 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1537 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1538 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1539 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1540 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1541 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1542 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1543 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1544 list closes: Bug#53756
1545 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1546 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1547 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1548 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1549 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1550 policy closes: Bug#53760
1551 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1552 policy closes: Bug#53761
1553 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1554 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1555 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1556 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1557 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1558 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1559 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1560 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1561 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1562 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1563 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1565 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1566 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1567 to install with older fileutils.
1568 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1569 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1570 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1571 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1573 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1574 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1576 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1578 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1581 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1583 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1585 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1588 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1590 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1593 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1596 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1598 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1600 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1602 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1605 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1607 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1609 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1612 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1613 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1614 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1615 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1616 directoried (closes: #41547)
1617 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1618 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1619 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1620 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1621 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1622 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1623 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1624 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1625 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1626 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1627 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1629 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1630 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1631 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1632 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1633 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1634 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1635 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1637 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1638 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1639 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1640 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1642 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1644 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1646 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1647 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1649 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1651 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1654 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1656 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1658 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1661 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1663 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1664 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1665 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1666 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1667 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1668 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1669 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1670 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1671 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1672 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1673 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1674 this closes: Bug#38612
1675 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1676 before. closes: Bug#40864
1678 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1680 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1683 officially uploaded.
1684 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1686 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1687 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1688 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1690 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1691 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1692 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1693 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1694 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1695 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1697 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1698 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1699 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1701 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1703 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1704 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1705 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1706 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1707 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1709 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1711 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1714 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1715 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1716 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1717 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1718 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1719 there). closes: Bug#34233
1720 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1721 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1722 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1723 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1724 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1726 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1728 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1731 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1732 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1733 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1736 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1737 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1738 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1739 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1740 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1743 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1744 number. closes: BUG#25911
1746 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1747 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1748 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1749 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1750 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1751 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1753 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1754 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1755 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1758 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1759 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1760 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1762 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1763 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1764 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1765 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1767 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1768 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1769 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1771 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1773 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1774 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1775 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1776 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1777 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1778 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1779 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1780 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1783 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1785 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1786 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1789 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1791 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1795 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1797 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1800 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1801 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1802 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1803 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1804 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1805 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1806 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1808 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1809 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1811 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1813 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1815 * non-maintainer release
1816 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1817 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1819 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1820 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1821 * no content changes
1822 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1824 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1826 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1830 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1832 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1836 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1837 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1838 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1840 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1841 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1843 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1844 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1845 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1846 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1848 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1849 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1850 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1851 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1852 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1853 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1854 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1856 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1857 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1858 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1861 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1862 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1863 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1865 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1866 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1867 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1869 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1870 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1872 * New version numbering scheme:
1874 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1875 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1876 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1879 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1880 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1881 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1882 differ between the manuals.
1884 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1885 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1886 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1887 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1889 * Packaging changes:
1891 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1892 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1894 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1896 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1898 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1902 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1903 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1904 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1906 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1907 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1910 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1911 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1912 file extension as the referenced file
1914 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1915 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1917 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1918 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1919 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1920 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1923 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1924 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1925 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1927 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1928 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1929 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1930 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1933 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1934 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1937 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1938 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1939 reasonable default configuration
1941 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1942 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1943 by all news servers and clients
1945 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1946 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1947 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1948 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1949 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1951 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1952 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1955 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1957 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1958 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1960 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1963 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1964 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1966 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1967 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1969 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1971 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1973 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1976 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1977 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1978 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1980 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1982 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1983 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1984 * Don't use debstd anymore
1986 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1988 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1991 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1992 contrib/non-free policy
1993 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1994 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1995 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1996 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1997 - new section about `Daemons'
1998 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1999 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2000 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2001 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2002 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2003 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2004 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2005 * SGML source code included in package
2006 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2008 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2010 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2013 - completely reworked structure
2014 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2015 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2016 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2017 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2018 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2019 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2020 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2021 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2022 - mention "orphaned packages"
2023 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2024 distributions' policy
2025 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2026 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2027 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2028 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2029 - added section about arch spec strings
2030 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2031 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2032 - added section about "menus"
2033 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2034 the new documentation policy soon
2035 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2036 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2038 - added section about editors and pagers
2039 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2040 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2041 - added section about device files
2042 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2043 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2044 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2046 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2047 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2048 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2049 - Added new section about obsolete names
2050 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2051 * Fixed package's description
2053 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2055 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2059 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2061 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2064 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2065 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2066 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2068 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2070 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2073 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2074 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2076 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2077 and upload it "byhand" too.
2079 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2081 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2085 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2086 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2087 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2088 functionality must not have the same name.
2089 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2090 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2091 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2092 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2093 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2094 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2095 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2097 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2098 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2099 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2100 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2101 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2102 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2103 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2104 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2107 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2109 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2111 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2113 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2114 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2115 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2116 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2117 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2120 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2122 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2124 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2126 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2127 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2128 description of deb file format.
2129 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2130 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2132 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2134 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2135 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2137 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2139 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2141 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2142 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2143 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2144 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2145 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2146 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2147 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2148 packages in section on Procedure
2149 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2150 a package maintainer
2151 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2152 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2153 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2155 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2156 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2157 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2158 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2159 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2160 on various shlib files
2161 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2162 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2163 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2165 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2167 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2169 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2170 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2171 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2173 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2174 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2175 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2176 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2177 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2179 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2181 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2183 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2185 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2187 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2188 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2189 compatibility go in contrib.
2191 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2192 instructions in policy manual.
2193 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2196 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2198 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2200 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2201 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2202 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2203 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2205 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2206 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2209 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2211 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2213 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2214 * More detail about changelog format names.
2216 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2217 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2221 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2223 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2225 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2227 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2229 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2231 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2233 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2235 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2236 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2237 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2239 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2241 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2243 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2245 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2247 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2251 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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