1 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
9 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
10 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
15 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
25 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
29 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
30 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
34 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
39 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
40 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
42 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
44 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
45 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
47 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
49 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
50 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
56 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
61 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
62 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
66 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
67 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
71 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
72 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
76 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
77 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
81 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
83 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
84 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
85 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
86 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
87 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
88 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
89 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
90 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
91 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
93 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
94 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
96 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
98 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
104 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
107 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
108 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
109 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
110 and distribution license' (three times).
111 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
112 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
117 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
119 Proposed by Santiago Vila
120 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
127 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
128 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
132 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
133 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
134 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
137 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
139 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
140 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
144 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
145 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
148 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
150 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
151 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
154 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
156 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
157 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
160 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
162 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
163 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
164 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
167 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
168 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
173 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
174 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
178 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
179 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
183 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
184 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
185 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
189 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
190 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
191 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
194 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
195 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
200 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
201 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
205 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
206 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
207 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
208 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
209 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
210 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
211 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
212 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
213 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
214 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
215 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
216 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
217 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
218 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
219 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
220 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
221 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
222 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
223 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
224 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
225 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
226 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
227 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
228 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
229 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
230 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
231 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
232 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
233 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
234 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
235 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
236 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
238 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
240 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
242 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
246 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
248 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
249 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
253 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
256 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
257 Wording: Steve Langasek.
258 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
259 Seconded: Julien Cristau
260 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
263 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
264 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
265 Seconded: Russ Allbery
266 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
269 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
270 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
271 Seconded: Russ Allbery
273 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
274 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
275 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
276 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
277 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
278 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
279 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
280 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
283 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
284 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
285 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
286 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
287 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
288 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
289 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
291 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
292 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
293 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
294 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
295 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
296 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
297 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
300 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
301 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
302 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
303 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
304 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
306 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
309 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
310 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
313 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
314 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
317 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
319 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
322 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
326 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
327 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
331 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
332 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
336 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
337 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
340 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
341 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
343 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
344 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
349 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
350 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
354 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
355 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
359 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
360 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
364 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
365 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
369 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
370 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
374 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
375 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
376 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
377 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
378 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
379 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
380 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
381 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
382 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
383 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
384 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
385 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
386 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
387 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
388 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
390 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
391 Source field descriptions.
392 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
393 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
394 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
395 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
396 description says otherwise.
398 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
400 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
404 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
407 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
408 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
410 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
411 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
415 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
416 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
420 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
421 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
425 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
426 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
427 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
428 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
432 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
433 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
434 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
435 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
436 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
438 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
439 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
443 * Add myself to Uploaders.
446 * Add myself to Uploaders.
447 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
449 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
450 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
451 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
453 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
455 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
458 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
462 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
463 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
465 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
467 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
468 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
472 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
475 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
477 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
478 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
482 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
483 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
487 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
488 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
490 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
492 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
493 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
495 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
497 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
498 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
499 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
500 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
502 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
503 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
507 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
508 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
511 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
513 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
514 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
515 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
516 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
517 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
518 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
519 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
520 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
521 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
522 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
523 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
524 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
525 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
526 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
527 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
528 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
529 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
530 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
531 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
532 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
533 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
534 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
535 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
536 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
537 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
538 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
539 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
540 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
541 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
542 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
544 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
545 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
546 links was completed long ago.
547 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
549 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
551 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
554 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
556 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
558 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
561 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
562 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
563 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
564 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
565 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
566 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
567 Millan (Closes: #209008).
568 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
569 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
571 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
573 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
575 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
576 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
577 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
578 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
579 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
580 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
581 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
583 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
584 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
585 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
586 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
588 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
589 Küster (Closes: #403391).
590 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
591 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
592 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
593 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
594 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
595 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
599 Closes: #186700, #458910
600 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
601 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
604 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
605 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
606 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
607 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
608 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
609 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
610 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
611 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
613 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
614 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
616 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
617 * Add an md5sums control file.
618 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
619 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
620 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
621 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
622 currently part of policy.
623 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
624 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
625 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
628 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
630 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
633 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
634 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
635 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
636 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
637 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
638 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
639 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
640 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
641 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
642 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
643 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
644 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
645 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
646 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
647 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
649 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
651 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
652 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
653 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
655 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
656 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
657 list?" (Closes: #412634).
658 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
659 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
660 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
661 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
662 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
663 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
664 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
665 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
666 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
667 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
668 debconf specification.
669 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
670 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
672 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
674 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
677 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
678 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
679 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
680 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
682 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
684 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
685 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
686 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
687 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
688 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
690 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
691 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
692 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
693 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
694 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
695 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
696 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
697 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
698 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
699 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
700 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
701 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
702 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
703 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
704 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
705 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
707 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
709 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
710 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
711 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
712 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
713 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
714 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
715 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
716 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
718 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
720 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
723 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
724 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
725 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
726 Polo (Closes: #372497).
727 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
728 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
730 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
731 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
732 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
733 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
734 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
735 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
736 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
737 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
738 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
739 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
741 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
742 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
743 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
744 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
745 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
746 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
748 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
750 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
753 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
754 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
755 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
757 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
758 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
760 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
762 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
765 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
766 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
767 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
768 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
769 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
770 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
771 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
772 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
773 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
775 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
776 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
777 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
778 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
779 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
780 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
781 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
782 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
783 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
784 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
785 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
788 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
790 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
793 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
794 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
795 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
796 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
797 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
798 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
799 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
800 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
801 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
802 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
803 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
804 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
805 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
806 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
807 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
808 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
809 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
810 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
811 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
812 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
813 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
814 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
815 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
816 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
817 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
818 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
819 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
821 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
822 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
823 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
824 Hess (Closes: #362247).
825 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
826 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
827 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
828 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
829 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
830 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
831 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
832 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
833 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
834 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
835 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
836 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
838 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
839 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
841 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
842 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
843 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
844 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
845 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
846 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
847 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
848 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
849 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
850 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
851 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
853 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
855 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
859 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
860 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
861 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
863 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
864 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
865 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
866 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
867 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
868 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
869 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
870 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
872 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
873 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
874 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
875 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
876 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
877 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
878 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
879 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
880 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
881 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
882 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
883 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
884 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
885 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
886 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
887 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
888 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
890 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
893 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
895 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
898 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
899 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
900 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
902 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
903 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
904 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
905 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
907 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
909 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
913 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
914 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
915 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
916 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
917 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
918 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
919 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
920 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
921 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
923 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
924 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
925 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
927 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
928 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
929 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
930 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
931 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
932 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
933 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
935 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
936 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
937 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
938 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
940 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
941 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
942 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
943 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
944 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
945 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
946 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
947 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
949 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
950 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
951 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
952 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
953 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
954 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
955 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
956 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
957 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
958 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
959 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
960 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
961 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
962 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
963 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
964 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
965 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
967 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
969 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
972 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
973 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
974 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
975 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
976 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
977 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
978 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
979 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
980 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
982 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
983 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
984 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
985 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
986 this section. closes: Bug#248618
987 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
988 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
989 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
990 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
991 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
992 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
993 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
994 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
995 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
996 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
997 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
998 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1001 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1002 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1005 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1006 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1007 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1009 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1010 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1011 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1012 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1013 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1014 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1016 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1017 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1019 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1020 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1021 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1022 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1023 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1024 Closes: #185943, #237049
1026 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1028 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1034 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1035 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1036 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1037 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1038 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1039 running. closes: Bug#187250
1040 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1041 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1042 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1043 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1044 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1045 user closes: Bug#176506
1047 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1049 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1053 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1054 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1055 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1056 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1057 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1058 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1059 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1060 deb-building toolchain.
1061 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1062 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1063 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1064 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1065 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1066 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1067 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1068 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1069 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1070 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1071 sections about changelog files.
1073 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1074 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1075 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1076 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1077 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1078 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1080 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1081 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1082 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1083 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1084 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1085 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1086 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1087 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1088 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1089 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1090 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1091 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1092 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1093 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1094 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1095 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1096 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1097 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1098 for the restructuring
1100 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1102 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1107 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1108 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1109 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1110 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1111 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1112 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1114 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1115 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1116 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1117 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1118 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1119 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1120 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1122 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1123 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1124 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1125 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1127 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1129 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1133 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1134 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1135 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1136 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1137 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1139 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1140 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1141 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1142 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1144 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1145 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1146 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1147 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1148 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1149 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1150 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1151 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1152 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1153 offtopic stuff, too.
1154 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1155 script should start it, closes: #60979
1156 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1157 "should", closes: #170019
1158 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1159 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1160 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1161 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1162 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1163 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1164 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1165 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1168 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1170 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1174 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1175 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1176 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1177 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1178 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1179 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1180 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1181 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1183 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1184 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1185 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1186 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1187 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1188 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1189 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1190 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1191 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1193 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1194 file, closes: Bug#65764
1196 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1198 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1201 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1202 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1203 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1204 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1205 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1206 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1207 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1208 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1209 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1210 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1211 details. closes: Bug#133030
1212 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1213 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1214 parts of Bug#161455.
1216 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1218 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1221 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1222 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1223 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1224 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1225 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1226 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1227 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1228 not. closes: Bug#139820
1229 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1230 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1231 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1232 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1233 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1234 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1235 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1236 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1237 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1238 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1240 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1242 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1243 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1244 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1245 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1246 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1247 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1248 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1249 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1250 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1251 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1252 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1253 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1254 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1255 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1256 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1257 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1258 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1259 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1260 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1261 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1263 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1264 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1265 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1266 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1267 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1268 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1269 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1271 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1272 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1273 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1274 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1275 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1276 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1277 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1278 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1279 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1281 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1283 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1286 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1287 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1288 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1289 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1290 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1291 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1292 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1293 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1294 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1295 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1296 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1297 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1298 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1299 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1300 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1301 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1302 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1303 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1304 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1305 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1306 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1307 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1309 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1311 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1314 medium, high, emergency.
1315 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1316 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1317 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1318 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1319 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1322 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1323 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1324 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1326 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1327 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1328 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1329 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1330 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1331 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1332 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1335 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1337 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1340 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1341 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1342 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1344 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1345 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1346 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1347 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1348 debian/rules to do this
1349 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1350 patches are incorporated upstream
1351 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1352 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1353 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1354 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1355 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1356 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1358 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1359 system closes: Bug#91249
1360 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1361 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1362 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1363 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1364 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1365 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1366 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1367 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1368 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1369 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1370 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1371 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1372 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1374 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1376 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1379 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1380 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1381 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1383 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1384 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1385 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1387 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1390 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1392 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1395 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1396 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1397 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1398 package for the time being
1399 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1400 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1401 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1402 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1403 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1404 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1405 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1406 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1407 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1408 Build-Depends arch syntax
1409 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1411 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1412 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1414 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1415 from policy maintenance duties.
1416 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1417 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1419 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1421 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1425 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1427 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1430 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1431 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1432 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1433 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1434 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1435 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1436 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1437 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1438 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1439 minor version number for this
1440 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1441 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1442 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1443 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1444 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1445 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1446 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1447 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1448 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1450 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1452 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1455 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1456 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1457 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1458 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1460 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1462 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1463 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1464 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1465 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1466 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1467 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1468 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1469 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1470 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1471 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1472 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1473 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1474 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1475 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1476 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1477 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1480 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1482 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1485 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1487 * Document the Enhances relationship
1488 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1489 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1490 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1491 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1492 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1493 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1495 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1497 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1498 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1499 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1500 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1502 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1503 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1504 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1505 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1506 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1508 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1510 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1513 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1514 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1516 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1517 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1518 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1519 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1520 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1521 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1522 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1523 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1524 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1526 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1528 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1530 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1533 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1534 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1535 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1536 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1537 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1538 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1539 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1540 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1541 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1542 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1543 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1544 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1545 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1546 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1547 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1548 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1549 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1550 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1551 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1552 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1553 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1555 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1556 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1558 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1560 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1563 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1564 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1565 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1566 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1567 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1568 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1569 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1570 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1571 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1572 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1573 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1574 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1575 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1576 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1577 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1578 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1579 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1580 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1581 list closes: Bug#53756
1582 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1583 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1584 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1585 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1586 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1587 policy closes: Bug#53760
1588 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1589 policy closes: Bug#53761
1590 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1591 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1592 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1593 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1594 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1595 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1596 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1597 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1598 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1599 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1600 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1602 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1603 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1604 to install with older fileutils.
1605 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1606 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1607 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1608 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1610 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1611 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1613 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1615 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1618 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1620 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1622 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1625 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1627 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1630 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1633 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1635 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1637 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1639 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1642 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1644 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1646 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1649 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1650 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1651 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1652 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1653 directoried (closes: #41547)
1654 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1655 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1656 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1657 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1658 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1659 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1660 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1661 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1662 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1663 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1664 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1666 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1667 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1668 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1669 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1670 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1671 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1672 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1674 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1675 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1676 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1677 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1679 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1681 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1683 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1684 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1686 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1688 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1691 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1693 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1695 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1698 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1700 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1701 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1702 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1703 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1704 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1705 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1706 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1707 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1708 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1709 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1710 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1711 this closes: Bug#38612
1712 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1713 before. closes: Bug#40864
1715 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1717 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1720 officially uploaded.
1721 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1723 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1724 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1725 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1727 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1728 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1729 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1730 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1731 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1732 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1734 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1735 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1736 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1738 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1740 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1741 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1742 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1743 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1744 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1746 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1748 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1751 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1752 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1753 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1754 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1755 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1756 there). closes: Bug#34233
1757 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1758 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1759 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1760 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1761 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1763 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1765 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1768 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1769 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1770 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1773 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1774 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1775 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1776 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1777 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1780 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1781 number. closes: BUG#25911
1783 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1784 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1785 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1786 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1787 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1788 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1790 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1791 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1792 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1795 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1796 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1797 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1799 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1800 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1801 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1802 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1804 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1805 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1806 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1808 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1810 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1811 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1812 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1813 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1814 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1815 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1816 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1817 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1820 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1822 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1823 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1826 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1828 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1832 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1834 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1837 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1838 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1839 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1840 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1841 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1842 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1843 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1845 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1846 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1848 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1850 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1852 * non-maintainer release
1853 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1854 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1856 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1857 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1858 * no content changes
1859 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1861 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1863 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1867 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1869 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1873 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1874 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1875 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1877 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1878 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1880 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1881 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1882 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1883 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1885 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1886 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1887 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1888 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1889 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1890 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1891 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1893 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1894 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1895 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1898 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1899 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1900 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1902 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1903 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1904 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1906 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1907 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1909 * New version numbering scheme:
1911 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1912 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1913 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1916 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1917 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1918 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1919 differ between the manuals.
1921 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1922 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1923 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1924 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1926 * Packaging changes:
1928 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1929 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1931 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1933 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1935 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1939 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1940 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1941 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1943 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1944 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1947 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1948 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1949 file extension as the referenced file
1951 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1952 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1954 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1955 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1956 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1957 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1960 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1961 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1962 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1964 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1965 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1966 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1967 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1970 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1971 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1974 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1975 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1976 reasonable default configuration
1978 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1979 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1980 by all news servers and clients
1982 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1983 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1984 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1985 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1986 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1988 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1989 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1992 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1994 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1995 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1997 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2000 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2001 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2003 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2004 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2006 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2008 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2010 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2013 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2014 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2015 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2017 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2019 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2020 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2021 * Don't use debstd anymore
2023 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2025 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2028 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2029 contrib/non-free policy
2030 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2031 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2032 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2033 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2034 - new section about `Daemons'
2035 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2036 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2037 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2038 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2039 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2040 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2041 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2042 * SGML source code included in package
2043 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2045 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2047 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2050 - completely reworked structure
2051 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2052 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2053 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2054 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2055 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2056 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2057 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2058 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2059 - mention "orphaned packages"
2060 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2061 distributions' policy
2062 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2063 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2064 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2065 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2066 - added section about arch spec strings
2067 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2068 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2069 - added section about "menus"
2070 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2071 the new documentation policy soon
2072 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2073 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2075 - added section about editors and pagers
2076 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2077 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2078 - added section about device files
2079 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2080 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2081 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2083 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2084 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2085 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2086 - Added new section about obsolete names
2087 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2088 * Fixed package's description
2090 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2092 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2096 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2098 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2101 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2102 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2103 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2105 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2107 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2110 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2111 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2113 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2114 and upload it "byhand" too.
2116 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2118 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2122 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2123 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2124 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2125 functionality must not have the same name.
2126 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2127 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2128 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2129 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2130 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2131 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2132 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2134 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2135 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2136 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2137 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2138 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2139 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2140 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2141 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2144 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2146 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2148 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2150 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2151 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2152 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2153 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2154 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2157 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2159 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2161 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2163 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2164 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2165 description of deb file format.
2166 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2167 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2169 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2171 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2172 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2174 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2176 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2178 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2179 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2180 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2181 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2182 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2183 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2184 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2185 packages in section on Procedure
2186 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2187 a package maintainer
2188 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2189 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2190 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2192 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2193 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2194 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2195 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2196 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2197 on various shlib files
2198 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2199 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2200 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2202 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2204 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2206 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2207 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2208 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2210 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2211 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2212 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2213 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2214 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2216 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2218 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2220 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2222 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2224 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2225 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2226 compatibility go in contrib.
2228 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2229 instructions in policy manual.
2230 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2233 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2235 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2237 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2238 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2239 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2240 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2242 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2243 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2246 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2248 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2250 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2251 * More detail about changelog format names.
2253 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2254 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2258 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2260 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2262 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2264 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2266 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2268 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2270 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2272 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2273 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2274 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2276 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2278 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2280 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2282 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2284 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2288 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100